ryan a. chi
About
Hello! I'm a sophomore at Stanford University majoring in computer
science (BS candidate) and music (BA candidate). I'm a pianist, violinist, and organist—check
out my performances here!
I've done research in NLP and AI for healthcare; I also help lead Stanford ACM and Stanford Symphony. In my free time, I enjoy playing board games, solving crosswords,
and writing fun linguistics puzzles.
Experience
Research Assistant, Stanford NLP Group | 2021 –- systematically studying social bias in language models as related to fine-tuning
- advised by Rishi Bommasani and Percy Liang
- applying AI methods to generate synthetic electronic health records
- advised by Pranav Rajpurkar and Andrew Ng
- lead weekly section & interactive grading for CS 106A (Python) + CS 106B (C++)
- pretested HW for 400+ students; received 100% perfect ratings from students
- authored problems on linguistic & computational linguistic phenomena for US, UK, AUS, CAN olympiads
- Assistant Coach for 2021 Int'l Linguistics Olympiad USA team
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- 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
- International Linguistics Olympiad qualifier (cancelled due to COVID-19)
- North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad: 2nd place nationally
- 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
Music
Currenly, I study piano with Dr. Frederick Weldy and organ with Dr. Robert Huw Morgan. Preivously, I studied with Erna Gulabyan, Angela Kraft Cross, Debra Fong, and Daisy Bate. You can find more of my performances here!