Sylvain LAPEYRADE

PhD Student in Game AI

Bio

I am a PhD student in Game Artificial Intelligence at Clermont Auvergne University at the LIMOS research unit in Clermont-Ferrand, France. My thesis is entitled “Reasoning with Ontologies in real-time for Non-Player Characters (NPC) Artificial Intelligence in games”.

I am trying to improve Non-Player Character (NPC) decision making in games through Logic Programming (LP) and ontologies, using a Prolog inference engine and the Unity game engine. This thesis involves a research collaboration with the independent game studio Wako Factory to test our approach.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Game Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Data Science

Education

PhD Game Artificial Intelligence, 2023

LIMOS - Clermont Auvergne University, France
MSc Computer Science, Networks & Telecommunications, 2020

UPSSITECH - Toulouse University, France
Erasmus Computer Science, 2019

Linköping Universitet, Sweden

Experience

University Teaching Assitant

Clermont Auvergne University

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 Clermont-Ferrand, France

MSc 1 – Object Oriented Programming for a C++ Game with Qt
BSc 3 – Video game developement (Complete Course)
BSc 3 – Artificial Intelligence with machine Learning (2 times)
BSc 2 – General Object Oriented Programming in Java

Temporary Teacher (Complete Course)

Vichy University Centre

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 Vichy, France

BSc 2 – Video game development using the Unity game engine

Data Science Research Intern

National Institute of Informatics

Mar 2020 – Aug 2020 Tokyo, Japan

Machine Learning on network data
Data Mining, Analysis & Prediction

Machine Learning Research Intern

Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 Toulouse, France

Recurrent Neural Network for network intrusion detection
Implementing LSTM & GRU with Python, Keras, Tensorflow, etc.

Software Development Intern

SCLE SFE

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 Toulouse, France

Python software development
XML/Binary parser and converter.

Research

Sylvain LAPEYRADE (2022). Reasoning with Ontologies for Non-player Character’s Decision-Making in Games. In AIIDE'22 EXAG.

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Sylvain LAPEYRADE (2022). Reasoning with Ontologies for Non-player Character’s Decision-Making in Games. In LAMAS&SR'22.

PDF Slides

Sylvain LAPEYRADE, Christophe Rey, Bruno Bachelet, Loic Yon (2022). Raisonnements ontologiques temps réel pour l’IA des Personnages Non-Joueurs dans les jeux vidéo. In PFIA22 – JFSMA.

Slides

Sylvain LAPEYRADE (2021). Reasoning with Ontologies for Non-Player Character Decisions in Games. In KR21 DC.

PDF Poster Slides Video

Sylvain LAPEYRADE, Christophe Rey, Bruno Bachelet, Loic Yon (2021). Raisonnements Ontologiques pour la Crédibilité des IA dans les Jeux Vidéo. In PFIA21 – Jeux et IA.

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Sylvain LAPEYRADE, Kensuke Fukuda (2020). Analysis of Time-To-Live DNS Settings. MSc 2 – Thesis.

Sylvain LAPEYRADE, Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, Abdelmalek Benzekri (2019). Recurrent Neural Networks for Network Intrusion Detection. MSc 1 – Thesis.

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