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 Receives ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026
Recent master's graduate Evelien Riddell, MMath student James Riddell, PhD student Gengyi Sun, research engineer Michał Antkiewicz, and Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at FORGE 2026, the 3rd ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering.
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.