Group Members

Jump to Faculty, Master Students, Bachelor Students, Alumni.

Faculty and PhD Students

Yimin Yang

Assistant professor

  • Reserach Interest - artificial neural networks, image processing, and data analysis

Haojin Deng

Doctoral Student, started January 2023

  • Master, Lakehead University
  • Bachelor, Carleton University
  • Student Member in Vector Institute, Canada
  • Research Interest - contrastive learning, large language model application, multimodal learning, generative model

Yuqi Liu

Doctoral Student, since Sept 2023

  • Master, Northwestern University

  • Research Interest - reinforcement learning and optimization in ML/AI

Yuxi Liu

Doctoral Student, since Jan 2025

  • Master, Zhengzhou University

  • Research Interest - RNN, dynamic weight optimization, data filtering, LMM application

Noah Argaw

Doctoral Student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

  • Bachelor in Statistics and Biochemistry at University of Toronto

  • Research Interest - machine learning and its use in designing bone tissue engineering scaffolds

Saed Moradi

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University

  • Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering in the University of Isfahan

  • Research Interest -computer vision and medical imaging, including medical image analysis, multimodal learning, 3D reconstruction, object detection, and clinical AI applications

Master Students

Jacob Schaffer

Master Student, since September 2024

  • Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Computer Engineering at Queen's University
  • Research Interest - machine learning, computer vision, medical image processing

Scott Murray

Master Student, since September 2024

  • Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Software Engineering at Western University
  • Research Interest - generative models, model quantization, transfer learning, reinforcement learning

Kelvin Zheng

Master Student, since September 2025

  • Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Engineering at Western University
  • Research Interest - transfer learning, generative models, dynamic weight optimization

Bachelor Students

Oliver Anderson

Summer Research Student in Software Engineering

  • Research Interest - LLM learning optimization

Alumni

Here’s a list of alumni who were previously members of our lab.

Wandong Zhang

In the Yang’s AiLearn Lab 2023 - 2025
Postdoc, started March 2023

  • Postdoc University of Windsor
  • PhD University of Windsor
  • BSc and MSc Ocean University of China
  • Research Interest - radar image processing, remote signal processing, feature learning and representation, deep neural networks and applications on computer vision

Zhichen Yan

In the Yang’s AiLearn Lab 2023 - 2025
Master Student, since Septmber 2023

  • Bachelor of Computer Science at Hefei University of Technology, China
  • Research Interest - Medical Image Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Mithila Sothynathan

In the Yang’s AiLearn Lab May 2025 - August 2025
Summer Research Student in Software Engineering

  • Bachelor of Engineering Science (BESc) in Software Engineering at Western University
  • Research Interest - vision-language models (VLMs), multimodal learning, generative AI

Dominic Bazina-Grolinger

In the Yang’s AiLearn Lab May 2024 - August 2025
Summer Research Student in Software Engineering

  • Bachelor of Engineering Science (BESc) in Software Engineering at Western University
  • Current Master Student in EPFL

James Su

In the Yang’s AiLearn Lab May 2024 - August 2025
Summer Research Student in Software Engineering

  • Bachelor of Engineering Science (BESc) in Software Engineering at Western University
  • Current Master Student in Univeristy of Toronto