About Me
I am a scientist at Wayve, an embodied AI company. I currently work on building end-to-end autonomous vehicles 🚗 with Reinforcement Learning (RL), as well as the evaluation of driving models.
Co-advised by Doina Precup and Yoshua Bengio, I acquired my Ph.D. from McGill University (also Mila – Quebec AI Institute), and investigated how to improve the generalization abilities of computational decision-making agents via the inspiring behaviors of the human brain.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TZh189YAAAAJ
GitHub: https://github.com/PwnerHarry
X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/TheHarryZhao
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-zhao-992a16106/
Interests
Computational Decision-Making / Self-Driving Cars
Updates
[2025] I successfully defended my PhD thesis and acquired the Ph.D. Click here for my PhD thesis.
[2025] I officially joined Wayve as a scientist, working to solve the ambitious problem of embodied AI.
[2025] I finished my visit at University of Ottawa’s Brain and Mind Institute.
[2024] I moved to Ottawa and became a visiting student at University of Ottawa’s Brain and Mind Institute, working on neuroscience related topics with Prof. Richard Naud.
[2024] I finished my internship at RBC Borealis (previously Borealis AI), working on dealing with hallucinated targets proposed by generative models in decision-making, with Tristan Sylvain. This work has later been published and presented as a conference paper at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).
[2023] I left my researcher position at Haiper (Canada). We made the captur3™ app that turns your iPhone into a 3D scanner that uploads real-world objects into the metaverse.
[2023] I successfully finished my internship at Microsoft, where I was mentored by Harm van Seijen, Remi Tachet & Romain Laroche, working on sequential decision-making.
[2021] I was honored to be 1st place recipient of the 2020 FRQ (Nature and Technologies) PhD excellence fellowship.
[2020] I graduated my M.S. from McGill University with CGPA 4.0/4.0, advised by Doina Precup and Xiao-Wen Chang. My thesis was on meta-adapting policy evaluation.
[2018] I received my B.Eng. from Dalian University of Technology in 2018. My thesis was on zero-shot transfer generalization.
More About Me
I am actively learning more knowledge, more skills and evolving consciously towards a better person. I love reading history since understanding humanity is one of my greatest passions. I like roasting people, and getting roasted is even better. This world is losing its humor, fast!
I love adventures and enjoy a pure life.
Site Last Updated: 23 Nov 2025