ryan a. chi


About

Hello! I'm a MS/BS/BA student at Stanford University majoring in computer science and minoring in music. I'm a pianist, violinist, and organist—check out my performances here!

My expertise is in NLP and AI for healthcare. I led the Stanford NLP's Team Chirpy Cardinal to the $250K 1st Place (Science Prize) in the Amazon Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 5. I've worked at Google Deepmind, Hudson River Trading, Citadel, Netflix, and NVIDIA AI, served as the president of Stanford ACM and Stanford Symphony, and co-founded the Stanford Poker Tournament.

I enjoy teaching and was recognized as one of Stanford's Centennial Teaching Assistants.

In my free time, I enjoy playing board games, solving crosswords, and writing fun linguistics puzzles. In addition to NACLO, I've contributed to MIT Mystery Hunt, and co-chaired Stanford Puzzle Hunt.


Linguistics Puzzles


Honors

Academic
  • Represented USA at International Linguistics Olympiad (cancelled due to COVID-19)
  • North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad: 2nd place nationally
  • Best Project, CS 224N (out of 400+ students) and Best Project, CS 229 (out of 250+)
  • Nominee, Stanford Boothe Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing
Musical
  • performed at Carnegie Hall (NY) and Royal Albert Hall (London)
  • prizes at numerous competitions: Steinway Jr, Los Angeles Liszt Int'l, ENKOR Int'l, AFAF, CAPMT, Burlingame, Quimby, MTAC, Young Pianists' Beethoven
  • Daniel V. Robinson Prize (top undergrad instrumentalist, Stanford Music Dept.)

Music

Currenly, I study piano with Dr. Elizabeth Schumann and organ with Dr. Robert Huw Morgan. Preivously, I studied with Frederick Weldy, Erna Gulabyan, Angela Kraft Cross, Debra Fong, and Daisy Bate. You can find more of my performances here!