I'm Hiu Yan — curious by default, builder by trade.
What I've been up to lately...
Summer 2026
DORL Lab, UofT
Agentic Robotics & RL Researcher
Fall 2026
BW Lab, UofT
Computer Vision Researcher
Summer 2026
The Matter Lab, UofT
Multi-Agent Systems Researcher
Summer 2026
UofT CS Department
Software Developer
Winter 2026
Royal Bank of Canada
Data Analyst Intern
2024–28
University of Toronto
Triple Major — CS, Pure Math, Statistics · 3.92 cGPA
Research
Memory Infrastructure for Agentic AI
The Matter Lab, UofT · 2026–Present
Designing agentic architectures for scientific automation — AI agents that autonomously execute computational chemistry workflows. Supervised by Alán Aspuru-Guzik.
Agentic Robotics & Reinforcement Learning
DORL Lab, UofT · 2026–Present
Applying RL to build autonomous robot agents capable of long-horizon decision-making — and studying when an agent should act vs. defer to a human. Supervised by Prof. Chi-Guhn Lee.
Computer Vision Research
BW Lab, UofT · Fall 2026
Incoming undergraduate researcher under Prof. Sven Dickinson (former Head, Samsung AI Research Center Toronto) and Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther — studying visual scene understanding and perception.
