ZHEYUAN RYAN SHI

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I work with public sector organizations to address societal challenges in food security, environmental conservation, and poverty alleviation using AI. Some of my research has been deployed at these organizations worldwide. I was the recipient of the 2024 Newell Award for Research Excellence, a 2023 IAAI Deployed Application Award, a 2022 Siebel Scholar Award, and was selected as a 2022 Rising Star in Data Science and ML & AI by UChicago and USC. Previously, I consulted for DataKind and interned at Microsoft and Facebook. I got my Ph.D. in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon University advised by Fei Fang and a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Swarthmore College... I am looking for undergraduate and graduate students to work on research related to multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and LLM for public sector applications. Please send me an email if you are..