Received the Canada CIFAR AI Chair Award in 2022; Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award at the University of Waterloo in 2025; Area Chair Award in AACL-IJCNLP 2023; Best Paper Honorable Mention in WACV 2021; UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2021.
Research Experience
Worked at Google DeepMind from 2021 to 2025, contributing to the Gemini multimodal and evaluation efforts. Currently an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo (on leave), directing the TIGER Lab focused on studying generative models in different modalities including text, images, videos, and music.
Education
PhD from the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Advisor information not provided.
Background
Research interests include natural language processing, deep learning, and multimodal learning. Aims to design models that handle complex reasoning scenarios such as math problem-solving and knowledge grounding, and build more powerful multimodal models to bridge different modalities.
Miscellany
Personal interests and other information not provided.