Teaching and Service - Victor Zhong

2025-08: From Text-to-SQL to Agentic Search - The Future of Natural Language Data Interfaces at KDD 2025 AI Canada Day.
2025-07: Building and Evaluating Generalist Agents at Workshop on Computer Use Agents at ICML 2025.
2025-05: Building and Evaluating Generalist Agents at Bloomberg CTO Data Science Speaker Series.
2025-05: Beyond Text2SQL at Vector Institute Endless Summer School.
2025-05: From Text-to-SQL to Agentic Search - The Future of Natural Language Data Interfaces at CCC's Computing Futures Symposium.
2025-01: Building and Evaluating Generalist AI Agents at AMD Tech Talks.
2025-01: Building and Evaluating Generalist Language Agents at Vector Institute Distinguished Lecture Series.
2024-10: Generalist Language Agents in General Purpose Operating Systems at University of Waterloo AI for Good lab.
2024-10: Generalist Language Agents in General Purpose Operating Systems at McMaster Computing and Software Department Seminar.
2024-07: NLP Lecture at Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School.
2024-01: From Reading to Do to Reading to Learn at Peking University.
2023-11: From Reading to Do to Reading to Learn at UT Austin.
2023-09: From Reading to Do to Reading to Learn at Cornell Tech.
2023-05: Reading to learn at Google Research Seattle.
2023-03: Reading to learn at Salesforce Research Singapore.

2025: Zhiyuan Sun at PhD at University of Waterloo.
2024: Michael Solodko at MS at University of Waterloo.
2024: Yuxuan Li at PhD at University of Waterloo.
2024: Arthur (Haonan) Chen at MS at University of Waterloo.
2024: Tien-Dat Nguyen at MS at University of Waterloo.
2023: Tianbao Xie at PhD at Hong Kong University advised by Tao Yu.
2022: Wejia Shi at PhD at University of Washington advised by Luke Zettlemoyer.
2022: Alex Mallen at Undergraduate at University of Washington → Researcher at Eleuther AI.
2021: Machel Reid at Research assistant at UTokyo → Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.
2020: Austin Wang at Undergraduate at Princeton University advised by Karthik Narasimhan → PhD at Princeton University.
2018: Sewon Min at Undergraduate at Seoul National University → Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.