- 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 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
- Controllable Generative Priors — Controlling pretrained MeanFlow models for image restoration without retraining. (ICLR 2027, under review)
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
- Noise Injection Analysis — Effects of Gaussian noise and adversarial perturbations on ResNet-18 representations.
🚗 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.




