Ruinan (Nancy) Wang

Computer Science Masters student at Stanford University
nancyrnw [at] stanford [dot] edu


I am a Masters Student at the Stanford Computer Science Department. I am part of the Stanford Intelligent and Interactive Autonomous Systems Group (ILIAD), advised by Dorsa Sadigh. My current interests are in the robotics, including imitation learning and learning from imperfect demonstrations.

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Teaching Assistantships

Projects

Attention Augmentation of BiDAF on SQuAD 2.0
Built a QA system that gives accurate answers for reading comprehension tasks on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset. On top of the BiDAF baseline model we experimented with the combinations of character embeddings, self-attention mechanisms, self-attention, CNN encoder blocks and coattention mechanisms to improve the F1 and EM performance of the model. [Report]

FoodPreplt Food Recipe Search Engine
Programmed a food recipe search engine that supports filtering by calorie limit, dietary restriction, food preparation time, excludedingredients and ingredient costs.
Backend: Python and Django REST framework. Frontend: React.

Misc

  • I run the social media platforms for ACSSS (Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford).

  • My recent hobbies: skiing, tennis, golf, dancing (Jazz, kpop).