People

Principal Investigator

Freda Shi

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

Shucheng (Bruce) Huang

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

Yifan Jiang

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

Ruoxi Ning

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

Michael Ogezi

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

Hala Sheta

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

Xiaoxi Luo

BS 2024 in Data Science, Peking University
Expected to start the MMath program in 2025 Fall


Visiting Graduate Students

Xiaoning Wang

Vector Research Intern (2025)
Home Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Steffania Sierra Galvis

Vector Research Intern (2025)
Home Institution: Università di Pisa

Zhiping (Arya) Zhang

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

Yilei Tu

Visiting Student (2024)
Home Institution: ETH Zurich
Next Step: PhD student in CS, University of British Columbia

Sean Wang

Visiting Student (2024)
Home Institution: Tongji University
Next Step: Master's student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Andrew Xue

Waterloo Undergraduate Student (2024)