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