Sasha Azad
Ph.D. Computer Science Student
Sasha Azad is a Ph.D. Computer Science student at NC State University. Her main research interests lie in the field of Narrative and Game Artificial Intelligence.
Publications
Little Computer People: A Survey and Taxonomy of Simulated Models of Social Interaction
Bolstered by a growing interest in simulating believable non-player characters (NPCs), work on NPC models has spanned topics such as …
Ph.D. Quals - Lyra: Simulating Believable Opinionated NPCs (Extended)
This work expands on and extends work previously pubished for the Lyra System towards the Ph.D. Computer Science qualifier requirement …
Lyra: Simulating Believable Opinionated Virtual Characters
Lyra is a simulation of a opinionated population of virtual characters with inherent biases that can believably debate …