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.
Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair
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
2024
OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
2024
Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
2024
Spider 2.0: Evaluating language models on real-world enterprise text-to-sql workflows
2025