Victor Zhong
@hllo_wrld
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ML+NLP AP @UWCheritonCS, @cifar_news AIChair @vectorinst. Former @MSFTResearch @MetaAI, @SFResearch via @MetamindIO, @uwnlp, @StanfordNLP, @eceuoft.
Waterloo, Canada
Joined February 2011
I increasing think of FAIR of the late 2010’s and very early 2020’s as a golden era of NLP research.
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Here it is! #AcademicTwitter.
I’m planning a year 1 retrospective on life as a new assistant professor to help those considering academia. What would you like me to cover? Teaching, research, work-life balance, service roles, lab building…? #AcademicTwitter.
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RT @taoyds: As computer-use agents (CUAs) handle critical digital tasks, open research is key to study their capabilities, risks. 🚀After a….
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RT @xywang626: We are super excited to release OpenCUA — the first from 0 to 1 computer-use agent foundation model framework and open-sourc….
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RT @ArtidoroPagnoni: Thrilled to share that our Byte Latent Transformer won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025! 🏆.
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RT @stanfordnlp: Big congratulations to @sewon__min on winning the inaugural ACL Computational Linguistics Dissertation Award at @aclmeetin….
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RT @robertarail: I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery!. We’re looking for strong Research Scientists….
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RT @egrefen: Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to….
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Alright… I just used Gemini deep research for the first time and I’m sold. I think the bottleneck is honestly RAG quality, and Google has been collecting data since its inception.
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RT @vkhosla: So true. Windsurf and others are really bad examples of founders leaving their teams behind and not even sharing the proceeds….
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I will be giving a talk at the @icmlconf Workshop on Computer Use Agents from July 18-19. Please let me know if you'd like to chat! If you are a prospective student, the R2L Lab will be looking for 2 grad students + 1 postdoc (Dec ddl for 2026). Details @
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I’m planning a year 1 retrospective on life as a new assistant professor to help those considering academia. What would you like me to cover? Teaching, research, work-life balance, service roles, lab building…? #AcademicTwitter.
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📢 Postdoc opening: build multimodal research agents for chemistry. Shape next-gen tools for scientific retrieval, reasoning & experiment planning. Great opportunity to explore + learn at intersection of ML + science w/ industry collab. More at
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RT @chrmanning: I’ve joined @aixventureshq as a General Partner, working on investing in deep AI startups. Looking forward to working with….
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Christopher Manning, one of the most cited researchers in the field of natural language processing and a former director of the Stanford AI Lab, has taken a leave of absence from Stanford University...
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RT @roydanroy: Would love help identifying amazing ML researchers with strong connections to Canada who are currently outside Canada (thus….
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RT @YuXiang_IRVL: “As a PHD student, your job is not publishing a paper every quarter. Focus on a problem in deep understanding and solve i….
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RT @allenainie: Decision-making with LLM can be studied with RL! Can an agent solve a task with text feedback (OS terminal, compiler, a per….
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RT @XLangNLP: 🔥New Computer Agent Arena Leaderboard Updates (2k+ user votes)!.🤔Which VLMs act better as computer use agents (CUAs)?. 1, Cla….
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Are you an established professor in AI open to moving to the University of Waterloo? Please DM me directly!.
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RT @SaladCoInc: Honored to have received the Vector Scholarship in AI and thank you to my supervisor, Victor Zhong (@hllo_wrld), for the no….
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