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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.

visiting and collaborating students

• Yves Ferstler (Spring/Summer 2026) — human-centered machine translation; visiting student at the Discourse Processing Lab, run by Maite Taboada, first-year PhD student at UQAM advised by Marie-Jean Meurs
• Himani Paudayal (Summer 2026) — safety alignment; currently an undergraduate student at KAIST

undergraduate students

• Ty Brassington (Summer 2026) — safety alignment, emergent misalignment
• Adam Podoxin (Summer 2026) — machine translation, multilingual NLP
• Gurneet Gill (Summer 2026) — multilingual argument mining
• Maria Kapitanenko (Summer 2026) — multilingual argument mining
• Jasleen Kaur (Summer 2026) — multilingual argument mining
• Rodrigo Añasco (Summer 2026) — multilingual argument mining
• Stella Maltcheva (Summer 2026) — multilingual argument mining
• Ben Kiddie (Summer 2026) — claim verification, factuality
• Mitch Brown (Summer 2026) — safety alignment
• Hala Obeid (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation
• Saemi Park (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation
• Emmy Fong (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation
• Aniyah Bohnen (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation
• Amandeep Manan (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation
• Sophia Don Tranho (Summer 2026) — creative multilingual generation