Victor Zhong

Office: Davis Centre DC2637, Email: victor.zhong@uwaterloo.ca
I am an Assistant Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Vector Institute.
Please visit the R2L Lab website to learn more about my research.
I am on Bluesky and Twitter but email is preferred.
I am actively looking for strong and motivated students with research experience in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
If you are interested in working with me, please see details on the R2L Lab website.
Unfortunately, due to the volume of requests, I cannot personally comment on individual applications.
If you are curious about what my research style might be like as an advisor, please see this article.
If you are a company looking to form research collaborations, please email me directly.
If you are looking for a bio for speaking engagements, please see here.
Education
- 2018-2023:
PhD in Computer Science
at
University of Washington.
Advisor Luke Zettlemoyer.
Supported by Apple AI/ML PhD Fellowship.
- 2014-2016:
Master of Science in Computer Science
at
Stanford University.
Advisor Chris Manning.
- 2009-2014:
Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering
at
University of Toronto.
Roles
- 2024-Present:
Assistant Professor
at
University of Waterloo.
- 2024-Present:
Canada CIFAR AI Chair
at
Vector Institute.
- 2023-2024:
Postdoc Researcher
at
Microsoft Research New York City.
Hosted by
Miro Dudík.
- 2021-2022:
Visiting Researcher
at
Meta AI Research Seattle.
Hosted by
Luke Zettlemoyer.
- 2020:
Research Intern
at
Google Brain Robotics.
Hosted by
Pierre Sermanet,
Corey Lynch.
- 2019:
Research Intern
at
Meta AI Research London.
Hosted by
Tim Rocktäschel,
Edward Grefenstette,
Sebastian Riedel.
- 2016-2018:
Founding Research Scientist
at
Salesforce Research.
- 2015:
Research Scientist
at
MetaMind.
- 2012-2013:
Compiler Software Engineer
at
Altera.