Current PLAI Group Members

NameResearch Interests
Frank Wood
Frank Wood
Professor, UBC Computer Science
Co-Founder & CEO, Inverted AI
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii
fwood@cs.ubc.ca
Generative AI, embodied AI, probabilistic inference, probabilistic programming, autonomous vehicles, diffusion modeling, reinforcement learning
Andrew Smith
Program & Project Manager
May 2022 - present
andrew.smith@ubc.ca
Cedar Turek
MSc Student
Sept 2024 - present
Computer Architecture, Mathematics, and Education
Charlie He
PhD-Track MSc Student
Sept 2023 - present
Deep generative models, machine learning, PLAICraft
Chia-Hong HSU
PhD Student
Sept 2025 - present
chsu35@cs.ubc.ca
Consistency Models, Guidance, Diffusion Models, Continual Learning
Fatemeh Abdollahi
PhD Student
Sept 2025 - present
fabd@cs.ubc.ca
Neuro-symbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Saeid NadeiParizi
Saeid Naderiparizi
PhD Student
Sept 2019 - present
saeidnp@cs.ubc.ca
Probabilistic programming to scientific simulators rejection sampling
Data-centric Manufacturing
Intel Parallel Computing Centre
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Jason Yoo
Jinsoo (Jason) Yoo
PhD Student
Sept 2020 - present
jasony97@cs.ubc.ca
DARPA Data Driven Discovery Models (D3M)
Automated machine learning (AutoML)
(BC Graduate Scholarship Awardee)
Yunpeng (Larry) Liu
PhD Student
Sept 2021 - present
yunpengl@cs.ubc.ca
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Matthew Niedoba
PhD Student
Jan 2022 - present
mniedoba@cs.ubc.ca
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Martyna Wojciechowska
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Directed Studies)
Sept 2024 - present
martyna1@student.ubc.ca
PLAICraft
Oluwanifemi Adekanye
MSc Student
Sept 2025 - present
ayanfe02@cs.ubc.ca
Generative AI, Embodied AI
Spencer Szabados
PhD Student
Sept 2025 - present
szabados@cs.ubc.ca
Diffusion models, Probabilistic modelling, Robotic planning, Computer vision
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Xiaoxuan Liang
PhD Student
Sept 2022 - present
xiaoxuan.liang@student.ubc.ca
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Yuxuan (Reacher) Zhang
PhD Student
January 2025 - present
reacher@cs.ubc.ca
Generative Models, Embodied AI, Machine Learning, PLAICraft