About
Zerui Wang
AI Engineer & Researcher
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
Concordia University, Canada
Professional Memberships
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Professional Member • Since 2020
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Professional Member • Since 2020
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Professional (PMP) • Since 2018
Above Target performance
Research Interests
I specialize in making AI systems more transparent, trustworthy, and secure. My work bridges the gap between complex AI models and human understanding, enabling stakeholders to trust and effectively use AI systems.
Explainable AI (XAI)
Developing interpretability methods for complex AI models, enabling trust and compliance in production systems.
Video Understanding
Building transformer-based models for real-time video analysis with spatio-temporal attention mechanisms.
AI Security
Investigating adversarial attacks and defenses for video models to improve system robustness.
Cloud AI Services
Creating frameworks for deploying XAI in production environments across Azure, GCP, and AWS.
Work Experience
Core AI Engineer
Maket Technologies Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Lead development of explainable AI systems for generative AI applications
- Design and implement XAI architectures for production deployment on cloud platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on AI product development and regulatory compliance
AI Engineer & Programming Supervisor
Intellipro Group Inc.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Developed chatbot using open-source LLMs with RAG, tokenization, and vector databases
- Fine-tuned LLAMA model for recommendation systems and candidate profile assessment
- Designed NLP automation tools including context-aware email generation and semantic search
- Supervised and mentored programming developer trainees
- Developed AI-driven financial data analysis tool for stock price forecasting
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Engineering
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research Focus: Explainable AI, Video Understanding, Transformer Models, AI Security, Cloud Computing
- Published 12 peer-reviewed papers with 101 citations
- Completed 35+ peer reviews for top venues (IEEE TSC, AAAI, Applied Intelligence)
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Process System Engineering
Technical University Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
- Specialization: Advanced System Modelling, Computational Simulation, Distributed Control Systems
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Process System Engineering
China University of Mining and Technology
Xuzhou, China
Academic Activities
Teaching Assistant
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- COEN 6311: Software Engineering (Graduate level)
- COEN 6313: Programming on Cloud (Graduate level)
- COEN 6731: Distributed Software Systems (Graduate level)
- COEN 244: Programming Methodology (Undergraduate level)
Presentations & Workshops
Develop Explainable AI Services on Cloud Computing and Open Source Models
34th International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON)
How to Design and Launch a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on Cloud Computing
Concordia University 4th Annual Digital Skill-Share Days Event
Cloud-based XAI Services for Assessing AI Models Under Adversarial Attacks
Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) International Symposium
Design Explanation Microservices and Provenance: A Case Study of Explaining Cloud AI Service
36th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI)
Peer Review Service
IEEE TSC
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
AAAI
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
APIN
Applied Intelligence
JCVHT
Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques
TJSC
Journal of Supercomputing
JDFSL
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law