I am an AI programmer at Ubisoft Toronto where I work on the virtual characters and living cities of Watch_Dogs 2. Prior to this I also worked at EA Tiburon to add new life to the simulated crowds and sideline characters of Madden NFL 25. On the side I maintain several open-source game projects including a character animation and AI library, two game networking libraries, and a lightweight 2D physics library.

In 2015 I finished my Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Dr. Norman I. Badler. My dissertation covers techniques for animating crowds of virtual humans through coordinated and interactive tasks, allowing designers to better author compelling narratives between users and non-player characters.

• Interactive Narrative and Storytelling
• Behavioral Content Creation and Iteration
• Authoring for Rich Multi-Agent Interactions
• Real-Time Individualized Player Modeling
• Perceptually-driven Narrative Adaptation

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	Watch_Dogs 2 (Ubisoft, 2016) [Game Website] [OpenCritic]
	Madden NFL 25 (EA Sports, 2013) [Game Website] [OpenCritic]

ADAPT: The Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed
A open-source Unity library delivering a platform for designing and authoring functional, purposeful human characters in a rich virtual environment.
[ GitHub]

	M. Kapadia, S. Frey, A. Shoulson, R. W. Sumner, M. Gross. "CANVAS: Computer-Assisted Narrative Animation Synthesis." Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2016. [ PDF] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	A. Shoulson, N. Marshak, M. Kapadia, and N. I. Badler. "ADAPT: The Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2014. [ PDF] [ Supplement] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	K. Ninomiya, M. Kapadia, A. Shoulson, F. Garcia, and N. I. Badler. "Planning Approaches to Constraint-Aware Navigation in Dynamic Environments." Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 2014. [ PDF] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	A. Shoulson, M. Gilbert, M. Kapadia, and N. I. Badler. "An Event-Centric Planning Approach for Dynamic Real-Time Narrative." Motion in Games (MIG), 2013. [ PDF] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	A. Shoulson, M. Kapadia, and N. I. Badler. "PAStE: A Platform for Adaptive Storytelling with Events." Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop (INT) at the Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE), 2013. [ PDF] [ BibTeX]

	A. Shoulson, N. Marshak, M. Kapadia, and N. I. Badler. "ADAPT: The Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed." Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2013. [ PDF] [ Supplement] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	M. Kapadia, K. Ninomiya, A. Shoulson, F. Garcia, and N. I. Badler. "Constraint-Aware Navigation in Dynamic Environments." Motion in Games (MIG), 2013. [ PDF] [ BibTeX] [ Video]
	M. Kapadia, A. Shoulson, F. Durupinar, and N. I. Badler. "Authoring Diversity in Personality and Behavior for Multi-Actor Simulations." Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Large Crowds. Springer-Verlag, 2012. (Book Chapter) [ PDF] [ BibTeX]

	M. Kapadia, A. Shoulson, C. Boatright, P. Huang, F. Durupinar, and N. I. Badler. "What’s Next? The New Era of Autonomous Virtual Humans." Motion in Games (MIG), 2012. [ PDF] [ BibTeX]
	L. Sun, A. Shoulson, P. Huang, N. Nelson, W. Qin., A. Nenkova, and N. I. Badler. "Animating synthetic dyadic conversations with variations based on context and agent attributes." Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 2012. [ Link] [ BibTeX]

	A. Shoulson, F. Garcia, M. Jones, R. Mead, and N. I. Badler. "Parameterizing Behavior Trees." Motion in Games (MIG), 2011. [ PDF] [ BibTeX]

	D. Markowitz, J. Kider, A. Shoulson, and N. I. Badler. "Intelligent Camera Control Using Behavior Trees." Motion in Games (MIG), 2011. [ PDF] [ BibTeX] [ Video]

	A. Shoulson and N. I. Badler. "Event-Centric Control for Background Agents." International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), 2011. [ PDF] [ BibTeX]

	A. Shoulson, D. Garcia, and N. I. Badler. "Selecting Agents for Narrative Roles." Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop (INT) at the Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE), 2011. [ PDF] [ BibTeX]

[Full Publication List]

A. Shoulson and K. Pearson. "Procedure-Level Authorization for Java Remote Method Invocation Using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Credentials." Technical Report, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, 2010. [ PDF]