Anurag Sarkar
Scholar

Anurag Sarkar

Google Scholar ID: VVnRDggAAAAJ
University of Alberta
Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceProcedural Content GenerationComputational Creativity
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
629
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
24
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published several academic papers, including 'Latent Combinational Game Design' and 'Procedural Content Generation via Knowledge Transformation (PCG-KT)' in IEEE Transactions on Games.
Research Experience
  • During his PhD, interned at Microsoft Research NYC, Electronic Arts, and on the Applied AI team at Zynga.
Education
  • Received a PhD from the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Seth Cooper. Dissertation work focused on using deep latent variable models to generate and blend game content, enabling various design tasks.
Background
  • A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), working in the Games Research AI and Learning (GRAIL) Lab led by Matthew Guzdial. Research interests include applying deep latent variable models for generating and blending game content, and working on various game AI projects.