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                <h1>ryan a. chi</h1>
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            <p>My X handle is <a href="https://x.com/ryanandrewchi" class="no-line" target="_blank">ryanandrewchi</a>, which has been suspended recently. Please beware of any activity from accounts claiming to be me!</p>
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            <h2>About</h2>
            <p>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&mdash;check
            out my performances <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXLqK-Ks-YBostXPkDcCmTA" class="no-line" target="_blank">here</a>!
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            My expertise is in <a href="https://nlp.stanford.edu" class="no-line" target="_blank">NLP</a>. I led the Stanford NLP's <a href="https://stanfordnlp.github.io/chirpycardinal/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Team Chirpy Cardinal</a> to the $250K 1st Place (Science Prize) in the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7107462569602203649/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Amazon Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 5.</a> I've worked at <a href="https://deepmind.google/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Google Deepmind</a>, <a href="https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Hudson River Trading</a>, <a href="https://www.citadel.com/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Citadel</a>, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Netflix</a>, and <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/" class="no-line" target="_blank">NVIDIA AI</a>, served as the president of <a href="https://stanfordacm.org" class="no-line" target="_blank">Stanford ACM</a> and <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/sso/cgi-bin/orchestras/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Stanford Symphony</a>, and co-founded the <a href="https://www.stanfordacm.org/pokerTournament" class="no-line" target="_blank">Stanford Poker Tournament</a>.
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            I enjoy teaching and was recognized as one of <a href="https://ctl.stanford.edu/cta-winners#2024" class="no-line" target="_blank">Stanford's Centennial Teaching Assistants</a>.
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            In my free time, I enjoy playing board games, solving crosswords,
                and writing <a href="https://naclo.org" class="no-line" target="_blank">fun linguistics puzzles</a>. In addition to NACLO, I've contributed to <a href="https://puzzles.mit.edu/" class="no-line" target="_blank">MIT Mystery Hunt</a>, and co-chaired <a href="https://www.stanfordacm.org/puzzleHunt" class="no-line" target="_blank">Stanford Puzzle Hunt</a>.</p>
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            <b>Research Assistant, Stanford NLP Group</b> | 2021 &ndash;
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                <li>systematically studying social bias in language models as related to fine-tuning</li>
                <li>advised by <a href="https://rishibommasani.github.io/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Rishi Bommasani</a> and <a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Percy Liang</a></li>
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            <b>Research Assistant, Stanford AI for Healthcare Bootcamp</b> | 2021 &ndash;
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                <li>advised by <a href="https://rajpurkar.github.io/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Pranav Rajpurkar</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Andrew Ng</a></li>
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            <b>Section Leader, Stanford CS 106</b> | 2021&nbsp;&ndash;
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                    <li>lead weekly section & interactive grading for CS 106A (Python) + CS 106B (C++)</li>
                    <li>pretested HW for 400+ students; received 100% perfect ratings from students</li>
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            <b>North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad</b> | 2020 &ndash;
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                    <li>authored problems on linguistic & computational linguistic phenomena for US, UK, AUS, CAN olympiads</li>
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                    <li><a href="https://www.naclo.org/resources/problems/2021/N2021-G.pdf" class="no-line" target="_blank">The Skates of Wrath</a>: Sauk semantics with a 21st-century twist.</li>
                    <li><a href="https://www.naclo.org/resources/problems/2021/N2021-E.pdf" class="no-line" target="_blank">The Script of Your Dreams</a>: the curiously mirror-like Mandombe script.</li>
                    <li><a href="https://www.naclo.org/resources/problems/2021/N2021-Q.pdf" class="no-line" target="_blank">A Stress Test</a>: a computational approach to English stress (co-author: <a href="https://rtmccoy.com/" class="no-line" target="_blank">Tom McCoy</a>).</li>
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            <b>Academic</b>
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                    <li>Represented USA at <a href="https://ioling.org/" class="no-line" target="_blank">International Linguistics Olympiad</a> (cancelled due to COVID-19)</li>
                    <li>North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad: 2nd place nationally</li>
                    <li>Best Project, <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/" class="no-line" target="_blank">CS 224N</a> (out of 400+ students) and Best Project, <a href="https://cs229.stanford.edu/" class="no-line" target="_blank">CS 229</a> (out of 250+)</li>
                    <li>Nominee, Stanford Boothe Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing</li>
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                    <li>performed at Carnegie Hall (NY) and Royal Albert Hall (London)</li>
                    <li>prizes at numerous competitions: Steinway Jr, Los Angeles Liszt Int'l, ENKOR Int'l, AFAF, CAPMT, Burlingame, Quimby, MTAC, Young Pianists' Beethoven</li>
                    <li><a href="https://music.stanford.edu/news/2022-department-music-awards-announced-0" class="no-line" target="_blank">Daniel V. Robinson Prize</a> (top undergrad instrumentalist, Stanford Music Dept.)</li>
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            <p>Currenly, I study piano with <a href="https://music.stanford.edu/people/elizabeth-schumann" class="no-line" target="_blank">Dr. Elizabeth Schumann</a> and organ with <a href="https://music.stanford.edu/people/robert-huw-morgan" class="no-line" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Huw Morgan</a>. Preivously, I studied with <a href="https://music.stanford.edu/people/frederick-weldy" class="no-line" target="_blank">Frederick Weldy</a>, Erna Gulabyan, Angela Kraft Cross, Debra Fong, and Daisy Bate. You can find more of my performances <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXLqK-Ks-YBostXPkDcCmTA" class="no-line" target="_blank">here</a>!</p>
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