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Hello 👋 I'm Xianda (Allen) Du!

🎓 Education

  • University of Waterloo — Computer Engineering, AI Option ('27 🧑‍🎓)
  • CGPA: 4.0/4.0
  • Publications: ACL 2025 Findings (Paper), SIGIR 2026 (Paper), and NeurIPS 2026 BeNTo Workshop (Paper).

Tags: VLMs, Generative Models, RL, Search Agents, RAG


🔎 Research

Research Assistant — University of Waterloo | Advisor: Prof. Wenhu Chen

  • VIEScore2 — Unified image evaluation with spatially grounded explanations through SFT and RL. (ICLR 2027, under review)

Research Assistant — University of Waterloo | Advisor: Prof. Amir-Hossein Karimi

Research Assistant — Université de Montréal | Advisor: Prof. Jian-Yun Nie

  • Evidence in the Loop — Training evidence-grounded search agents with knowledge graphs and reinforcement learning. (ICLR 2027, under review)

Research Assistant — McGill University | Advisor: Prof. Renée Sieber

  • Weather Archival Rescue — Historical newspaper digitization and weather-impact reasoning across WXChat, WXImpactBench, and WeatherArchive-Bench. (ACL 2025 Findings & SIGIR 2026, co-first author)

Undergraduate Research Assistant — University of Waterloo | Advisor: Prof. En-Hui Yang

💼 A Little More About Me

🚗 Currently an Autonomy & Algorithm Engineer Intern at Waabi; previously an ML Engineer at StackAdapt.

☕ I work on VLM evaluation, generative models, and LLM search agents.

🤖 I also interested in world models, autonomous vehicle and robotics.


🤝 Feel Free to Get in Touch


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Machine learning and web frameworks
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    This is my profile built upon the popular framework React.js. This personal website stands out with its 3D models, ensuring an unforgettable browsing experience. Integrated with EmailJS, it empower…

    JavaScript 1

  2. WatAIOliver WatAIOliver Public

    This is the oliver repo of watai - Oliver model. A RAG based LLM.

    Python 6

  3. TIGER-AI-Lab/VIEScore2 TIGER-AI-Lab/VIEScore2 Public

    Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    Python 6

  4. Abdelaal495/meanflow-rhso Abdelaal495/meanflow-rhso Public

    Python 1

  5. Weather-Archival-Rescue/WeatherArchive-Bench Weather-Archival-Rescue/WeatherArchive-Bench Public

    Python 1

  6. Weather-Archival-Rescue/WXImpactBench Weather-Archival-Rescue/WXImpactBench Public

    Python