group

Welcome to MANTA Lab (Multilingual AI for Narratives, Translation, and Analysis) at Simon Fraser University. We work on developing and assessing multilingual and culturally rich AI systems that serve a wide variety of users.

PhD students

• Weidong Zhang — starting Fall 2026. Last stop: Northeastern University.

undergraduate students

• Ty Brassington — safety alignment, emergent misalignment
• Adam Podoxin — machine translation, multilingual NLP
• Ben Kiddie — claim verification, factuality
• Mitch Brown — safety alignment
• Hala Obeid — creative multilingual generation
• Emmy Fong — creative multilingual generation
• Amandeep Manan — creative multilingual generation
• Sophia Don Tranho — creative multilingual generation

visiting and collaborating students

• Yves Ferstler — human-centered machine translation; visiting student at the Discourse Processing Lab, first-year PhD student at UQAM advised by Marie-Jean Meurs
• Himani Paudayal — safety alignment; currently an undergraduate student at KAIST