Forrest Gao(高林森)

PhD Student

University of Ottawa

Location: Ontario, Canada

Email: linsen.gao@uwaterloo.ca

About me

I am a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa. I received my bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2024 and my master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2026.

I am passionate about Machine Learning.

People I admire: My parents, Enrico Fermi, Richard Hamming, and Claude Shannon.

Motto: “Passion Without Motivation.” —- Krishna

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Learning

I have always been an enthusiastic lifelong learner, and I am grateful that online resources allow me to learn wonderful materials.

18.06 Linear Algebra from MIT
EE364 Convex Optimization I and II from Stanford
ECE602 Introduction to Optimization from Uwaterloo
CS680 Introduction to Machine Learning from Uwaterloo

Intern

2023/07 -2023/09: Software Engineering Intern at ENN Group
2024/12 - 2025/08: Research Internship supervised by Jimmy Lin

Awards

NJUPT-Outstanding Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, 2023. (Top 1%)