FSDAD - Generalizing Deepfake Audio Detection
First time trying research, wrote a solo paper on framing deepfake audio detection as a meta-learning problem to try few-shot generalization of a deepfake audio detector to new deepfake generators.
Vincent Qu
Learning about ML
about
Prev. @ Shopify, 2nd Year Computer Science @ University of Toronto, Schulich Leader.
experience
Software Engineering Intern, Shopify
2026ML and ML infra for Messaging team, smart sending, impact projections, causal learning.
Machine Learning Researcher, UTMIST
2025/2026Engineering and research for UofT Machine Intelligence Student Team's FixMyElo, DFOD, and Agent Forge projects
projects
FixMyElo
Architected a self-explaining RL-based chess agent by using attention-weighted board states, policy/value networks and MCTS + UCT move calculation with PyTorch, CUDA and python-chess
Snowy
Built an encoder-only transformer from scratch + discord bot for 11th grade CS class. Determines if school board Instagram posts indicate snow days.
NRGHacks
Founded a 100+ student high school hackathon. Built the website, hosted 3 workshops, and I was the keynote speaker!
CalenDR
Founded full-stack medical app to schedule immunization and cancer screening dates. Led entire SDLC and developed scheduling algorithms based on user-provided info.
GWJudge
An online coding judge built to host problems and contests for the coding club at the Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School. Inspired by https://dmoj.ca/. My first ever project!
other work
High Stakes
Wrote, filmed, directed and acted in small short film just for fun!
Ephemeral
Weird Geometry Dash memory layout idea.
Lepido
Probably the best layout I've ever created in Geometry Dash.
Reminiscence
Hackathon project that uses 3DGS to reconstruct VR environments from plain video. I think the demo video we filmed is the cooler part though.
proud of!
- Awarded a Schulich Leader Scholarship at both UofT and UBCiOne of 100 students across Canada awarded the Schulich Leader Scholarship, the country's largest STEM undergraduate scholarship at the top 2 ranked Canadian universities.
- Top 300 by points on DMOJi(At peak rank) The largest competitive programming website in Canada
- Top 6000 in Geometry DashiCompletion video for the hardest level I've beaten, ranking is by AREDL standards. I'm currently playing Slaughterhouse and I have it in 5 runs.
- Ascendant in Valorant
- Diamond in Overwatch
- 200 stars in bedwarsiOld montage I made when I was 13, probably the best demonstration of my skill lol. Fun fact, I block trapped the #1 player Manhal_IQ_ in a private scrimmage game (1:02).
- 42s Tetris 40 line
- 51 ZetaMac scoreiNot great objectively, but I'm proud that I started with a score of 8 and got to 51 only a few weeks later.
- 182 WPMiMonkeytype on 15s, 166 WPM 30s
- 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo
- 1500 ELO on chess.com
blog
Thoughts on things I learn, stories, and anything else I feel like writing about! — read the blog.