Ryan Chi

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San Francisco Bay Area

About

Research @ OpenAI. Previous experience @ DeepMind, HRT, Citadel. Led Stanford NLP's Alexa Prize 5 Team to $250k 1st Place.

Experience

  • Research at OpenAI
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    scaling test time compute through rl leading a focused bet in [REDACTED] https://openai.com/careers/research-engineer-focused-bets/

  • Stanford University School of Engineering (4 yrs)
    • Research Assistant | Stanford NLP Group
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      - led Stanford's Alexa Prize 5 Team (Team Chirpy Cardinal) to $250K 1st Place - advised by Chris Manning

    • Graduate Course Assistant + Senior Section Leader | Stanford CS {229, 106A, 106B}
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs

      - 2024 Centennial TA Award for excellence in teaching (top 5 TAs in all of Stanford CS)

    • Research Assistant | Stanford ML Group (AI for Healthcare Bootcamp)
      Jan 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      - advised by Prof. Pranav Rajpurkar, Prof. Andrew Ng

  • Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    NLP research

  • Research Intern at Netflix
    Feb 2024 - May 2024 · 4 mos

    LLM research / published patent

  • Research Intern at Google DeepMind
    Nov 2023 - Feb 2024 · 4 mos

    Studied ordering effects in llm reasoning (ICML '24)