Ryan Chi
openai research | x.com/ryanandrewchi
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
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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/
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Stanford University School of Engineering (4 yrs)
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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
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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)
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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
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Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos
NLP research
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Research Intern at Netflix
Feb 2024 - May 2024 · 4 mos
LLM research / published patent
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Research Intern at Google DeepMind
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024 · 4 mos
Studied ordering effects in llm reasoning (ICML '24)