CV

Ranran Haoran Zhang's Curriculum Vitae.

Contact Information

Name Ranran Haoran Zhang
Professional Title PhD Candidate
Email [email protected]

Professional Summary

PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University, advised by Dr. Rui Zhang. Research interests in NLP, data-centric AI, and LLMs.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2025

    Remote

    Co-OP Researcher
    eBay
    Advertising Keyphrase Generation
    • Low-latency Seq2Seq model to generate infinite number of keyphrases from a finite annotated dataset.
    • Paper & Product-driven development.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Remote

    Team Lead
    Amazon
    Task-Oriented Multimedia Chatbot (Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2)
    • Team lead of 12 members for 8 months, working on NLP, Multimedia and MLOps.
  • 2021 - 2021

    Remote

    R&D Intern
    Benten Tech
    Chatbot for Alzheimer’s Caregiver
    • Information Retrieval based FAQ module.
    • Neural based chitchat module with long-term memory.
    • Deployed on Alexa Skill.
  • 2021 - 2025

    Reviewer
    Academic Service
    • ACL-ARR (2023-2025)
    • ICLR (2024)
    • NeurIPS (2023)
    • EMNLP (2022, 2023)
    • COLING (2022)
    • JMLC (2021)

Education

  • 2022 - Present

    University Park, PA

    Ph.D.
    Penn State University
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Advisor: Dr. Rui Zhang
  • 2019 - 2021

    Champaign, IL

    M.S.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Information Management
    • Advisor: Dr. Heng Ji
  • 2014 - 2018

    Changsha, China

    B.S.
    Changsha University of Science & Technology
    Computer Science and Technology
    • Advisor: Dr. Daojian Zeng

Awards

  • 2024
    EMNLP Outstanding Reviewer
    EMNLP
  • 2021
    NAACL Best Demo Paper
    NAACL

Skills

Research Areas: Natural Language Processing, Data-Centric AI, Information Extraction, Large Language Models, CS Education