ryan a. chi
PSA
My X handle is ryanandrewchi, which has been suspended recently. Please beware of any activity from accounts claiming to be me!
About
Hello! I'm a researcher at OpenAI working on reinforcement learning and scaling test-time compute. Previously, I was an MS/BS 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. 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
- The Skates of Wrath: Sauk semantics with a 21st-century twist.
- The Script of Your Dreams: the curiously mirror-like Mandombe script.
- A Stress Test: a computational approach to English stress (co-author: Tom McCoy).
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
- 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!