Vaden Masrani

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I am the CEO of Sophia Consulting. Previously I was a Senior Research Scientist at Huawei Technologies Canada, working in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence. I completed my Ph.D (evidence) at the University of British Columbia as a member of the PLAI lab under the supervision of Frank Wood. My CV is here.

Before this, I was supervised by Giuseppe Carenini in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence where I completed my M.Sc. in artificial intelligence. I have also had the good fortune of working with Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Emtiyaz Khan, and Colin Gay in deep learning, approximate bayesian inference, and particle physics, respectively.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. AAAI
    Task-Agnostic Language Model Watermarking via High Entropy Passthrough Layers
    Vaden Masrani, Mohammad Akbari, David Ming Xuan Yue, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
  2. NeurIPS
    Flexible Diffusion Modeling of Long Videos
    William HarveySaeid NaderipariziVaden Masrani, and 2 more authors
    Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  3. UAI
    q-Paths: Generalizing the Geometric Annealing Path using Power Means
    V. Masrani*R. Brekelmans*T. Bui, and 4 more authors
    In 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2021