About
Shengyao Lu (陆晟瑶) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at the University of Victoria (UVic). She received her BSc. and Ph.D. degree at the University of Alberta. Her research interests primarily lie in the areas of Explainable AI (XAI), graph neural networks (GNNs) and graph representation learning, reinforcement learning (RL) for reasoning, large language models (LLMs) toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Openings
I have multiple openings for MSc/PhD starting in Fall 2026. Background in LLM deployment/fine-tuning, visual-language alignment, graph-language alignment would be a strong asset. Please send me your CV if interested.
News
11/2025 I attended my PhD convocation ceremony at the University of Alberta. ☺️
11/2025 I was invited to give a public talk hosted by Spoon CoLearning.
10/2025 My PhD thesis received the George Walker Award for Best Doctoral Thesis. 🥇
09/2025 I started my appointment at UVic as a TTAP. 🔥
06/2025 I have successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis.
