Freda Shi is an Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute. Shi’s research interests are in computational linguistics, natural language processing, and cognitive science, as well as related aspects of machine learning. Shi received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and her B.S. in Intelligence Science from Peking University.