Freda Shi

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Visiting Student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. Student, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

  • Joined September 2018

Names

Freda Shi (Preferred)
,
Haoyue Shi

Emails

****@ttic.edu (Confirmed)
,
****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)
,
****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

Education & Career History

Assistant Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca)
2024Present
 
Visiting Student
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
20242024
 
Ph.D. Student
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (ttic.edu)
20182024
 
Intern
Google (google.com)
20222022
 
Intern
Facebook (meta.com)
20202022
 
Undergraduate Student
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University (pku.edu.cn)
20132018
 
Visiting Student
Center for Data Science, New York University (nyu.edu)
20172017
 
Visiting Student
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
20162016
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee
2024Present
 
PhD Advisee
2024Present
 
PhD Advisee
Sheng Yao
2024Present
 
MMath Advisee
Hala Sheta
2024Present
 
PhD Advisee
Bruce Huang
2024Present
 
Social
2023Present
 
Social
2023Present
 
Family
1998Present
 
Visiting Student Host
20242024
 
PhD Advisor
20182024
 
PhD Advisor
20182024
 
Intern Host
20222022
 
Intern Host
20202022
 
Intern Host
20202022
 
Intern Host
20182018
 
Intern Host
20182018
 
Visiting Student Host
20172017
 
Visiting Student Host
20162016
 

Expertise

Pragmatics
2022Present
 
Program Synthesis
2021Present
 
Multilingualism
2020Present
 
Machine Translation
2020Present
 
Semantics
2019Present
 
Syntax
2018Present
 
Grounded Language Learning
2017Present
 
Lexical Semantics
2016Present
 
Sociology
20142018