Scholar
Zheyuan Ryan Shi
Google Scholar ID: AOKI6YgAAAAJ
University of Pittsburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
362
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2024 Google Academic Research Award
- 2024 Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence from CMU School of Computer Science
- 2022 Siebel Scholar Award
- Selected for the 2025 AAAI New Faculty Highlights program
- Named to the 2022 Rising Star in Data Science and ML & AI lists by UChicago and USC
- 2024 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant recipient
- 2024 John C. Mascaro Faculty Fellowship from Pitt Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
- Publications at top-tier conferences including NeurIPS-24, AAAI-24, IAAI-23, WWW-24, and WWW-21
- IAAI-23 paper 'NewsPanda' won the Deployed Application Award
Research Experience
- Leads AI-for-social-impact research through the Nara initiative
- Previously consulted for DataKind
- Interned at Microsoft and Facebook
- Collaborated with Food Rescue Hero to develop AI tools for optimizing food donation logistics
- Partnered with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to build LLM-powered tools for conservation threat monitoring
