Hey I'm Tony 👋!

Software Engineering Student @ UWaterloo

Currently: Research Engineer (Contractor) @ Google DeepMind

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About Me

Hi! My name is Tony. I'm a honours Software Engineering student at University of Waterloo and am seeking opportunities for 2026 New Grad roles.

Currently I'm a Research Engineer Contractor at Google DeepMind. I'm also doing research under CompLING Lab and Vector Institute, working on grounded language learning using computer vision.

Previously, I was MLE Intern at Cresta creating guardrails against adversarial attacks and building autonomous AI Agent benchmarking / evaluation. I was also at NorwAI Research Center/NTNU as an AI Researcher Intern evaluating the performance of LLMs and hallucinations with RLHF and AMR graphs.

I am also Engineering Ambassador & Rise-up Mentor at UWaterloo, and Varsity Athlete of UWaterloo Varsity Fencing Team.

When I'm not coding, you can find me performing magic, playing chess or fencing on the piste. 🤺


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tony.li3@uwaterloo.ca

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