I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. My background includes the fields of software engineering, game development, and game AI. In my research I develop techniques for quality assurance of video games, leveraging a combination of program analysis and artificial intelligence approaches. My work is grounded in current game development practices and game engines, and evaluated via large-scale experiments across many existing games.

Select Publications

1. Automatically Defining Game Action Spaces for Exploration Using Program Analysis. Sasha Volokh and William G.J. Halfond. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-23). October 2023. Best Student Paper Award.

2. Static Analysis for Automated Identification of Valid Game Actions During Exploration. Sasha Volokh and William G.J. Halfond. In 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG). September 2022. Best Paper Award.