Freda Haoyue Shi

Dr. Shi is an Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2024, where she was advised by Professors Karen Livescu and Kevin Gimpel, and was supported by a Google Ph.D. Fellowship. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Science and Technology (Computer Science Track) in 2018 at Peking University, with a minor in Sociology. 

Dr. Shi's research interests are in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She works towards deeper understandings of natural language and the human language processing mechanism, as well as how these insights can inform the design of more efficient, effective, safe, and trustworthy NLP systems. Among all relevant topics, she is particularly interested in learning language through grounding, computational multilingualism, and related machine learning aspects.