Wilson Sy
Research Assistant at Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolWilson Sy is a software engineer and research-focused technologist combining 11 years of hands-on industry experience with current graduate research at the University of Toronto in AI-powered software assurance and knowledge representation. He has shipped backend systems in commercial roles (Kijiji, thinkRF) and contributed to multiple UofT research projects on LLM creativity, neurosymbolic approaches, and multi-agent Hanabi agents. Comfortable bridging product and research, he emphasizes project inception, Agile that enables teams, and aligning ways of working to create value for both customers and collaborators. As a student leader and TA, he fosters psychologically safe, honest, and divergent teams—skills he applies to both engineering and academic settings. His uncommon combination of computational linguistics and CS training fuels work on autoformalization and KR, making him particularly effective at translating linguistic insight into ML-driven systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Port Credit Secondary SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Linguistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Linguistics at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (26)
connections8
chrome-extension8
browser-extension7
javascript7
firefox7
html6
hud6
nodejs6
communications6
fortress6
css6
browser6
semantics6
oop6
colors6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
boxspah/picture-shiritori
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
boxspah/brain-the-valley
Feb 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
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