Waterloo Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab (WISE Lab) led by Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki does research in
- requirements, including safety and quality requirements,
- architecture,
- safety of intelligent systems, including autonomous cars,
- machine learning, including reinforcement learning and deep learning,
- simulation.
Opportunities
We are looking for postdocs and graduate students interested in working on all aspects of autonomous driving.
For more information, visit Open positions.
News
WISE Lab Workshop at NeurIPS 2025: Tackling Real-World Challenges for Vision Language Models
The WISE Lab is excited to announce that it will host the 1st Workshop on VLM4RWD: Vision Language Models: Challenges of Real-World Deployment at the NeurIPS 2025 conference in Mexico City, Mexico.
Anticipating rare situations is the key to self-driving safety
The Globe and Mail Jun 5, 2025 article about edge cases highlights the need for self-driving cars to safely handle unusual and dangerous traffic situations, well beyond the 99% currently considered as good performance. The article highlights research done at WISE Lab.
How UW Moose was used to create a self-driving platoon
UW Moose and WISE Sim were used to create a self-driving platoon for experiments from the paper "Enhancing Safety in Mixed Traffic: Learning-Based Modeling and Efficient Control of Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles".