Undergraduate Research Awards

2025 Research Award Recipients

Award RecipientResearch Project
Aaron Wei
BSc, Computer Science
Danica Sutherland (Supervisor)
Fundamental Limits on Measuring Conditional Dependence
Bi Xiang (Jack) Wu
BSc, Statistics
Trevor Campbell (Supervisor)
Flexible, Efficient Approximations for High-Dimensional Distributed Bayesian Inference
Geo Lee
BSc, Computer Science
Frank Wood (Supervisor)
Embodied AI
Gunbir Singh Babeja
BSc, Computer Science
Mark Schmidt (Supervisor)
Mitigating Loss of Plasticity in Continual Learning Systems
Kaiwen Liu
BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Renjie Liao (Supervisor)
Resource-Constrained Test-Time Steering of Large Language Models with RLHF through Product of Expert (PoE)
Maziyar Dowlatabadibazaz
BSc, Computer Science
Kevin Leyton-Brown (Supervisor)
Using LLMs to Optimize TA Resource Allocation in Educational Peer Review Systems
Mercury Mcindoe
BSc, Computer Science
Leonid Sigal (Supervisor)
Human-Like Attention in Vision-Language Models
Raul Vazquez Guerrero
BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andre Ivanov (Supervisor)
Machine Learning Models to Reduce Electronic Systems Reliability Tests
Yash Mali
BSc, Computer Science
Raymond Ng (Supervisor)
Natural Language Interface for Medical Guidelines
Zimeng (Mabel) Wang
BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Christos Thrampoulidis (Supervisor)
Next-Token Prediction in Large Language Models

2024 Research Award Recipients

Award Recipient Research Project
Alyssa Zhang
BSc, Computer Science
Mark Schmidt (Supervisor)
Data Science for Medium-Rare Multi-Cause Diseases
Hala Murad
BSc, Computer Science
Kevin Leyton-Brown (Supervisor)
Deep Learning in Behavioral Game Theory
Malcolm Zhao
BSc, Computer Science
Mark Schmidt (Supervisor)
Newton-Like Methods For Modern Machine Learning Problems
Yujia Ma
BSc, Statistics
Trevor Campbell (Supervisor)
Advancing Distributed Bayesian Inference with Pigeons