People
Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Waterloo
PhD 2024 in Computer Science, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
BS 2018 in Intelligence Science, Peking University
Graduate Students

PhD candidate in MME, University of Waterloo (2023-)
Advisors: Amir Khajepour and Freda Shi
MASc 2020 in MME, University of Waterloo
BSc 2018 in Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University

PhD Student in CS, University of Waterloo (2023-)
Advisor: Freda Shi
MS 2023 in Computational Linguistics, University of Washington
MS 2025 in Data Science, the University of Texas at Austin
BS 2021 in Computer Science, University of Toronto

PhD Student in CS, University of Waterloo (2024-)
Advisor: Freda Shi
BA 2024 in Linguistics, Zhejiang University
BS 2024 in Computer Science, Zhejiang University

PhD Student in CS, University of Waterloo (2024-)
Advisor: Freda Shi
MS 2023 in Computing Science, University of Alberta
BS 2019 in Computer Science, University of Jos

MMath Student in CS, University of Waterloo (2024-)
Advisors: Freda Shi and Dan Brown
BS 2023 in Cognitive Science, University of Toronto

Sheng Yao
MMath Student in CS, University of Waterloo (2024-)
Advisor: Freda Shi
PhD 2022 in Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong
MPhil 2018 in Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong
B. Social Science 2015, The University of Hong Kong
Research Associates

BS 2024 in Data Science, Peking University
Expected to start the MMath program in 2025 Fall
Visiting Graduate Students
Vector Research Intern (2025)
Home Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Steffania Sierra Galvis
Vector Research Intern (2025)
Home Institution: Università di Pisa
Visiting Graduate Student (2025)
Home Institution: Northeastern University
Undergraduate Students
Ilia Alenabi Amlashi
Luc Antony Lorand Edes
Tony Li
Disen Liao
Ryker Lin
Daniel Wei
Visiting Undergraduate Students
Mykhailo Buleshnyi
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Home Institution: Ukrainian Catholic University
William Dai
Vector Research Intern
Home Institution: Yale University
Pin-Han Huang
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Home Institution: National Taiwan University
Haige Li
Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Home Institution: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Alumni
Oscar Pang
Vector Research Intern (2025)
Home Institution: University of Toronto
Joseph Xiao
Waterloo Undergraduate Student (2025)
Jialin Yang
Waterloo Undergraduate Student (2025)
Next Step: PhD student in CS, Dartmouth College
Eric Huang
Waterloo Undergraduate Student (2025)
Next Step: Master's student, McGill University
Visiting Student (2024)
Home Institution: ETH Zurich
Next Step: PhD student in CS, University of British Columbia
Visiting Student (2024)
Home Institution: Tongji University
Next Step: Master's student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Xue
Waterloo Undergraduate Student (2024)