Ryan Wang

ryanyxw@berkeley.edu

Ryan Wang

I am an incoming PhD student at UC Berkeley, where I’ll be advised by Sewon Min as part of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and the Berkeley NLP Group. I am supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I did my undergrad at the University of Southern California, where I had a wonderful time working with my advisors, Robin Jia and Swabha Swayamdipta.

I'm generally interested in investigating data and architectural design choices during model pre-training that can make models controllable and reliable.

Before NLP, I dabbled with a little bit of computational biology research.

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Recent News

  • May 2025 I was awarded the Viterbi Award for Outstanding Research!
  • 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!


Miscellany

  • In my free time, I like to occasionally play unprofessional 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 2.5 years and counting.
  • This website was adapted from Nelson Liu's website