Sasha Azad
Research Scientist at Jabali
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSasha Azad is a research scientist with 13 years of software and AI experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from NC State, now building generative AI tools for game creation at Jabali.ai. He specializes in agent-based and social simulation, narrative intelligence, and procedural generation, translating research into practical systems for entertainment, healthcare, and defense. Sasha has a strong track record of industry collaborations—internships at IBM Research and Disney Research produced digital-twin simulations for COVID mitigation and scalable mixed-reality scheduling algorithms. He combines rigorous academic modeling of believable virtual societies with hands-on engineering, improving simulation runtimes from days to minutes in applied projects. Known for bridging HCI, narrative theory, and AI, he’s particularly focused on authoring tools that let non-experts craft socially grounded, explorable story worlds.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, Bandra, MumbaiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science - Interactive Intelligence, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science - Interactive Intelligence at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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cordova
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database
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Github Skills (23)
cordova10
sqlite9
database9
solver8
console7
pulp7
python7
shell7
phonegap-plugin6
cli6
xcode6
mobile6
api6
iphone6
extjs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shekr/characterizing-marvel
Dec 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
SashaZd/Shiva-Architecture-IFC
Dec 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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