Sasha Azad

PhD Computer Science - Research in Games and Narrative Intelligence - Research Scientist with

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

It’s official! 🎓😍

[Vivek Vidyasagaran @coziestsoup]

I’ve been working on a ComfyUI pipeline to create watercolor style portraits of pets.

[Rourke Bywater @RourkeBywater]

I’m Rourke, a narrative systems designer looking for work! I have experience in social simulation games and procedural narrative systems generally. I help organize @roguelike_con, worked for startups on experimental NDA'd games, and make weird digital art+games.
Let's team up! 😄

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

@maxkreminski @engineering I just liked your post because I agree with you.

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

Just finished writing my thesis document and sent it out to my committee! Phew.. what a week! 😮‍💨😅

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

You know you’re exhausted and need to sleep when you re-read the last paragraph you wrote and find:

“… that void that exists between the fabric of space and time where research projects without good documentation and examples go to die, never to be reused or loved again…”

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

Our evaluation models a digital twin of a real-world worksite, considering CDC community transmission numbers, resource bottlenecks, and more to test the efficacy of corporate policies to mitigate the risk of employees contracting COVID-19 through a hybrid or in-person work model

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

I'm excited to finally share the preprint of Clockwork - A hybrid social simulation engine built on Discrete Event Simulation and Agent-Based Social Simulation methodologies.
https://t.co/ziIOuDlFRf

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

@maxkreminski @recardona @MatthewGuz Same. That sounds like a brilliant talk :)

[✨ Kaelan ✨ @kaelanDM]

I think we should make more games that are relevant to the places where we live

in my ideal world, game designers are as important to local community-building as barbers or small-town journalists

& I want to make a space/org/structure to help make this happen

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

Sounds like a great fit for the #EXAG and #AIIDE community :)

[Matthew Guzdial @MatthewGuz]

We’re hiring a professor in experimental game design at the University of Alberta! Super excited about this position and the UofA is great! Happy to answer questions!
https://t.co/mCbhvYTcWw

[Mark Riedl @mark_riedl]

Of course the agents don’t know they are in a simulation. They’re language models. I despair.

[Mark Nelson @mm_jj_nn]

The top 10 institutions with the largest / most active research groups in this area are the same as in 2022, though there is some reshuffling of the order within the top 10.

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

@jalanmiddleton I’m with you… Something about the tomatoes in it throws me off too :/

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

Hey, you -- yeah, with the ADHD and the cool projects! You know how all of those projects are, like, 80% done? And how you can't figure out how to get them over the line? And how frustrating that is?

The following thread contains an infohazard, proceed at your peril! ;)

[Mark Riedl @mark_riedl]

This is one of the reasons I love the AAAI @AIIDEconference. This is the set of topics one must choose from to submit a paper:

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

All caffeinated and ready to begin my PhD Proposal examination talk 😅
This is when you start sending virtual good vibes my way :)

[Sasha Azad @sashazad]

@LangTechLara @UMBC Congratulations! I’m really happy for you!