Current PLAI Group Members

NameProject/Research 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 (Yingchen) He
PhD-Track MSc Student
Sept 2023 - present
Deep generative models, machine learning, PLAICraft
Christian Weilbach
Christian Weilbach
PhD Student
Sept 2018 - present
weilbach@cs.ubc.ca
Planning as probabilistic inference, PLAICraft

Dylan Green

PhD Student
Sept 2022 - present
dsgreen@cs.ubc.ca
Deep generative modelling of video data
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
(Co-supervised by Prof. Mark Schmidt)
Geo Lee
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Directed Studies)
Sept 2024 - present
glee16@student.ubc.ca
PLAICraft
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)
Vasileios Lioutas
PhD Student
Sept 2020 - present
vlioutas@cs.ubc.ca
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Jason Yoo
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)
Ke Zhang
PhD Student
Sept 2023 - present
zhangk15@cs.ubc.ca
Reinforcement learning, generative models, Bayesian Inference, and self-driving applications
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)
Larry (Yunpeng) 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
Ryan Fayyazi
Ryan Fayyazi
MSc Student
Sept 2020 - present
rfayyazi@cs.ubc.ca
Program induction of synaptic learning rules in C. elegans.
Xiaoxuan Liang
PhD Student
Sept 2022 - present
xiaoxuan.liang@student.ubc.ca
Autonomous vehicles (MITACS Accelerate Fellowship with Inverted AI)