Chengzhi Mao
Biography
Chengzhi Mao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University and a core academic member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.
Mao obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, under the supervision of Carl Vondrick and Junfeng Yang. He received his BEng in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University.
His research focuses on machine learning and computer vision. By training machines to integrate context through interaction and reasoning, he aims to build robust models that generalize. Other interests include language, robotics, causal inference and human-centered AI.