Victor Zhong

Victor Zhong

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Victor Zhong is an Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research is on efficient machine learning methods that interpret language to generalize to new problems. His current projects include grounded language agents, domain adaptation, and interactive teaching. Victor received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing

Highlights

  • Apple AI/ML Fellowship
  • Outstanding Paper Award EMNLP
  • Founding member of Salesforce Research

Publications

Text2reward: Automated dense reward function generation for reinforcement learning

Tianbao Xie and Siheng Zhao and Chen Henry Wu and Yitao Liu and Qian Luo and Victor Zhong and Yanchao Yang and Tao Yu

2024

OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments

Tianbao Xie and Danyang Zhang and Jixuan Chen and Xiaochuan Li and Siheng Zhao and Ruisheng Cao and Toh Jing Hua and Zhoujun Cheng and Dongchan Shin and Fangyu Lei and Yitao Liu and Yiheng Xu and Shuyan Zhou and Silvio Savarese and Caiming Xiong and Victor Zhong and Tao Yu

2024

Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?

Ruisheng Cao and Fangyu Lei and Haoyuan Wu and Jixuan Chen and Yeqiao Fu and Hongcheng Gao and Xinzhuang Xiong and Hanchong Zhang and Yuchen Mao and Wenjing Hu and Tianbao Xie and Hongshen Xu and Danyang Zhang and Sida Wang and Ruoxi Sun and Pengcheng Yin and Caiming Xiong and Ansong Ni and Qian Liu and Victor Zhong and Lu Chen and Kai Yu and Tao Yu

2024

Spider 2.0: Evaluating language models on real-world enterprise text-to-sql workflows

Fangyu Lei and Jixuan Chen and Yuxiao Ye and Ruisheng Cao and Dongchan Shin and Hongjin Su and Zhaoqing Suo and Hongcheng Gao and Wenjing Hu and Pengcheng Yin and Victor Zhong and Caiming Xiong and Ruoxi Sun and Qian Liu and Sida Wang and Tao Yu

2025