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About Me 🦉
I am a final year Ph.D. candidate at McGill University, interested in the general behavioral principles of consciousness and computational reasoning for decision-making. I am also a student researcher at Mila (Quebec AI Institute) since its establishment. Currently, I am a visiting student at University of Ottawa’s Brain and Mind Institute, working on neuroscience related topics.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TZh189YAAAAJ
GitHub: https://github.com/PwnerHarry
X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/TheHarryZhao
Interests
Higher-level Cognitive Reasoning for Sequential Decision-Making
News
[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.
[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 and psychology. Understanding humanity is one of my greatest passion.
I love adventures and enjoy a peaceful life. Not really conflicting.
Site Last Updated: 7 Feb 2025