News
- September 2025: I will be joining Kinaxis as Machine Learning Engineer Intern starting this Fall.
- May 2025: I will be joining Ansys/Synopsys as R&D Engineer Intern starting this Summer.
- Apr 2025: Our paper Towards atypical speech transcription using LLM-based ASR was accepted to Interspeech 25!
- March 2025: I will be joining Human-AI Lab as a Research Intern, working on Human Computer Interaction with VR.
- Jan 2025: Our paper on Enhancing AAC Software for Dysarthric Speakers in e-Health Settings: An Evaluation Using TORGO was accepted to IEEE ICC 25!
- Feb 2024: Our paper on Building LLM-based AI Agents in Social Virtual Reality was accepted to CHI 24!
- October 2023: I will be joining SLangLab as a Research Assistant, working on Speech and NLP.
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Research
I work on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.
Multimodal LLM
LLM Agent
- WebGraphEval: Multi-Turn Trajectory Evaluation for Web Agents using Graph Representation
Yaoyao Qian, Yuanli Wang, Jinda Zhang, Yun Zong, Meixu Chen, Yifan Zeng, Jindan Huang, Danqing Zhang
MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025
- Building LLM-based AI Agents in Social Virtual Reality
Hongyu Wan, Jinda Zhang, Abdulaziz Arif Suria, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Yvonne Coady, Mirjana Prpa
CHI LBW 24 [Paper] [Demo]
- Tech Tales: Digital Storytelling with the Royal BC Museum
D Jacoby, K Smith, N Inbar, C Farr, J Wong, S Khutorna, T Fang, Z Li, J Zhang, and Y Coady
Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2025 [Paper]
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Work Experience
- Kinaxis, Software Developer Intern, Machine Learning, 09/2025 - 12/2025
Developed and maintained distributed RAG system; explored LLM integration for agent personalization.
- Ansys, R&D Engineer Intern, 05/2025 - 08/2025
Optimized distributed HPC benchmark pipelines; identified scalability bottlenecks improving performance by ~200%.
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Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, Research Capstone, Spring 2025
- Teaching Assistant, Research Capstone, Fall 2024
- Teaching Assistant, Research Capstone, Summer 2024
- Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, Fall 2023
- Teaching Assistant, Object Oriented Programming, Summer 2023
- Teaching Assistant, Trigonometry, 2019
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Awards
- University of Victoria Graduate Entrance Award, 2025
- UVic Research Fellowship Recipient, 2025
- Khoury SEED Grant Recipient, 2024
- West Coast Research Grant Recipient, 2024
- Khoury Research Apprenticeship, 2024 (Top 1%)
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