ryanywan@usc.edu
Ryan Wang
I am a fourth-year undergrad studying computer science at
the University of Southern California, where I am part of
the USC Natural Language Processing Group.
I am currently advised by Robin Jia and
Swabha Swayamdipta. I am grateful that my research has been/is being supported by the USC Provost and CURVE Research Fellowships.
I'm generally interested in investigating data and architectural design choices during model pre-training that can make models safe and reliable.
Before NLP, I dabbled with a little bit of computational biology research.
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Recent News
- Apr 2025 I was offered an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Mar 2025 I'll be joining the Berkeley NLP group for my PhD!
- Jan 2025 I received an Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
- Nov 2024 Heading to EMNLP! Feel free to reach out and chat!
- Aug 2024 I am attending ACL 2024 to present my work on data watermarks! Feel free to reach out to talk about anything LM pretraining / memorization.
Publications
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Proving membership in LLM pretraining data via data watermarks
Johnny Wei*, Ryan Wang*, Robin Jia, In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024.
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Predictions of COVID-19 Infection Severity Based on Co-associations between the SNPs of Co-morbid Diseases and COVID-19 through Machine Learning of Genetic Data
Ryan Wang, Tim Guo, Leo Li, Julia Jiao, Lena Wang, In IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT) .
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Using GWAS SNPs to Determine Association between COVID-19 and Comorbid Diseases
Ryan Wang, Tim Guo, Leo Li, Julia Jiao, In IEEE 14th International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE) .
Miscellany
- In my free time, I like to occasionally play the piano, go to the gym, or attend pop concerts from korea. I am also a professional dishwasher for my girlfriend, with a work experience of 2 years and counting.
- This website was adapted from Nelson Liu's website