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XiandaDu/README.md

Hello๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm Xianda(Allen) Du!

๐ŸŽ“ Education

  • University of Waterloo - Undergrad in Computer Engineering ('27๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ“)
  • CGPA: 4.0 out 4.0 until April 2026.
  • Publications in ACL 2025 (Paper) and SIGIR 2026 (Paper). Tags: NLP, LLM, Benchmark, RAG, Climate Science

๐Ÿ”Ž Research

Research Assistant โ€” McGill University | Advisor: Prof. Renee Sieber

  • WeatherArchive-Bench โ€” Benchmark for retrieval-augmented reasoning over 1M+ archival news segments with IPCC-aligned vulnerability assessment. (SIGIR 2026)
  • WXImpactBench โ€” First benchmark for evaluating LLMs on multi-label classification and ranking of disruptive weather impacts. (ACL 2025 Findings)
  • WXChat โ€” Large-scale archival newspaper digitization pipeline with layout-aware OCR and LLM-based post-correction.

Research Assistant โ€” University of Waterloo | Advisor: Prof. Wenhu Chen

  • VIEScore2 โ€” Unified SFT framework for vision-language models on image quality assessment with visual grounding.

Undergraduate Research Assistant โ€” University of Waterloo | Advisor: Prof. En-Hui Yang

  • Noise-Injection Analysis โ€” Analysis of Gaussian noise and adversarial perturbations on intermediate representations in pretrained ResNet-18.

๐Ÿ’ผ I am looking for 2026 Sept to 2026 Dec AI/ML Developer or Researcher Intern

๐ŸŒ I'm looking for AI related internship and/or research positions

โ˜• I have research experiences in NLP, Information Retrieval and VLM

๐Ÿค– I'm good at React/Express/Spring based full-stack development as well

๐Ÿค Feel free to get in touch


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    This is my profile built upon the popular framework React.js. This personal website stands out with its 3D models, ensuring an unforgettable browsing experience. Integrated with EmailJS, it empowerโ€ฆ

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    WXImpactBench: A Disruptive Weather Impact Understanding Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models

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    This is a digit recognition project, powered by Python, TensorFlow, and Jupyter Notebook for model training and evaluation, coupled with React.js for the frontend deployed on Vercel, enables the acโ€ฆ

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    This project is a dynamic video-playing platform that showcases my expertise in web development. With a sleek interface powered by React.js, MaterialUI and RapidAPI, it offers seamless video playbaโ€ฆ

    JavaScript

  6. WatAIOliver WatAIOliver Public

    This is the oliver repo of watai - Oliver model. A RAG based LLM.

    Python 6