PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jin Guo

Also known as Jin L.C. Guo

Jin Guo is an associate professor at McGill University's School of Computer Science whose work spans software engineering, human-computer interaction and applied machine learning. After image processing and computer vision research at Fuji Xerox, she completed a PhD at the University of Notre Dame; her 2017 ICSE paper applied deep learning to software traceability, and her TiQi natural language interface won the ASE 2017 Best Tool Paper award. She joined McGill in January 2018, won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2018 for "Traceability in the Wild," coauthored the ArguLens framework in 2020, and received a 2021 Sloan Foundation grant to study open source scientific software usability. In 2023, she coauthored DocML for model-card documentation at CHI, and her SUMMIT tool for summarizing open source issue discussions won best paper and methods recognition awards at CSCW 2023. Since June 2026, she is Associate Director, Research at McGill's Computational and Data Systems Institute, and she is an associate member at Mila.

Timeline

  1. 2016

    A thesis proposal at ICSE

    After working on image processing and computer vision in the research lab at Fuji Xerox, she presents her thesis proposal, "Ontology Learning and its Application in Software-Intensive Projects," at the ICSE 2016 Doctoral Symposium in Austin. She goes on to complete her PhD at the University of Notre Dame.

  2. 2017

    Deep learning for trace links

    Her paper with Jinghui Cheng and Jane Cleland-Huang, "Semantically Enhanced Software Traceability Using Deep Learning Techniques," is accepted to ICSE 2017. It uses word embeddings and a recurrent neural network to generate trace links, and its Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit model outperforms the Vector Space Model and Latent Semantic Indexing. Her tool demo paper on TiQi, a natural language interface for querying software project data, wins the ASE 2017 Best Tool Paper award.

  3. 2018

    Assistant professor at McGill

    She joins the School of Computer Science at McGill University as an assistant professor in January 2018. Her paper "Traceability in the Wild: Automatically Augmenting Incomplete Trace links," written with Michael Rath, Jacob Rendall, Jane Cleland-Huang and Patrick Mäder, wins an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2018.

  4. 2019–2020

    NSERC, ArguLens and FRQNT

    In June 2019, her proposal "Knowledge Enhanced Software Repository Search" receives an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, and she serves as Program Co-Chair for the ACM Student Research Competition at ASE 2019. In 2020, she coauthors ArguLens, an automated technique using an argumentation model to consolidate community opinions in open-source issue discussions, and the FRQNT New Academics program funds her proposal "Document Traceability for Machine Learning Models."

  5. 2021

    Sloan grant for scientific software

    In August 2021, McGill announces that she receives $382,020 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Better Software for Science program for her proposal to study and improve the usability of open source scientific software through early user engagement.

  6. 2023

    DocML, SUMMIT and CSCW awards

    In 2023, she coauthors a CHI paper on DocML, a tool that nudges data scientists to complete ethics and model-card documentation during model development. Her SUMMIT paper, written with Saskia Gilmer, Avinash Bhat, Shuvam Shah, Kevin Cherry and Jinghui Cheng, wins best paper and methods recognition awards at CSCW 2023. SUMMIT is a tool for summarizing open source issue discussions that uses techniques to automatically detect information types and summarize text.

  7. 2024–2025

    Human-centered AI at Mila

    In May 2024, she and Ian Arawjo organize a Human-Centered AI Reading Group at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, where she is an associate academic member with research topics in human-AI interaction, privacy and responsible AI. Also in 2024, she is principal investigator for "Inclusive co-design of AI systems," a CDSI Proof-of-Concept Interdisciplinary Research Development Award project. In January 2025, she takes a sabbatical leave at the University of Toronto, visiting Shurui Zhou.

  8. Since June 2026

    Associate Director at CDSI

    In June 2026, McGill's Computational and Data Systems Institute names her Associate Director, Research, to coordinate its research initiatives in artificial intelligence, data science and computing across McGill. She is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and an associate member at Mila whose work spans software engineering, human-computer interaction and applied machine learning. In July 2026, she receives funding through the NSERC Discovery Grants program.

Career

  1. Since 2018McGill UniversityAssistant Professor, Associate Director, Research
  2. 2025University of Toronto
  3. 2024–2025MilaAssociate Academic Member

Education

  1. University of Notre DamePhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Jin Guo. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes McGill University. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes McGill University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. 19% of people shaping AI who founded a dated organization have founded two or more, waiting a median of 7 years before a secondIncludes McGill University. Across 1,136 people shaping AI who founded or co-founded a dated company, standalone lab or nonprofit, 221 (19%) founded at least two organizations, accounting for 36% of all 1,421 founding events.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Jin Guo | Mila mila.quebec. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Jin Guo cs.mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. [1804.02438] Semantically Enhanced Software Traceability Using Deep Learning Techniques arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Awards - * ICSE 2018 * conf.researchr.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. [2001.06067] ArguLens: Anatomy of Community Opinions On Usability Issues Using Argumentation Models arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. McGill Professor Jin Guo awarded research grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Research and Innovation - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. CyLab researchers to present at ACM CHI 2023 - CyLab Security and Privacy Institute cylab.cmu.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. Best paper award at CSCW for Prof. Jin Guo and her students! | McGill School Of Computer Science cs.mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. [2308.02780] SUMMIT: Scaffolding OSS Issue Discussion Through Summarization arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  10. Past IRD Awards | Computational and Data Systems Institute - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  11. Jin Guo appointed Associate Director, Research | Computational and Data Systems Institute - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  12. 36 Faculty of Science professors receive NSERC Discovery Grants funding | Faculty of Science - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.