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Code & Sorcery Lab - Empirical Game Research


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Cristiano Politowski

Assistant Professor

I am an Assistant Professor at Ontario Tech University, within the Computer Science group in the Faculty of Science.

My research interests include Video Game Development, Software Testing, Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE), Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Empirical Software Engineering.

Graduate students

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Dilan Mian

Master’s student · started September 2025


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Kevin Christopher Chua

Master’s student · started May 2026 · co-supervised with Ali Neshati


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Mohame Al Musqi Mohamed Shifan

Master’s student · started May 2026 · co-supervised with Loutfouz Zaman


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Charon Takov

Master’s student · starting September 2026 · co-supervised with Muhammad Usman


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Caio Varalta

Master’s student · co-supervised with Leonardo Tórtoro Pereira (IGCE, UNESP)


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Yohan Duarte Pessanha

Ph.D. student · co-supervised with Andre Takeshi Endo (Departamento de Computação, Universidade Federal de São Carlos)


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Laurent Voisartgraduated

Master’s student · co-supervised with Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (CSSE, Concordia University)

Undergraduate students

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Alex Lowegraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher · co-supervised with Ali Neshati


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Saffron Birchgraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher · co-supervised with Mariana Shimabukuro


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Saksham Tejpalgraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher


Rabia Chatthagraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher · co-supervised with Ken Pu


Daniel Babagraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher


Ryan Ahlborngraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher · co-supervised with Michael Miljanovic


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Saahir Dhanigraduated

Undergraduate Honours Researcher · co-supervised with Jeremy Bradbury