Ryan Louie

Experience

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  DuPont Pioneer

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Data Science Intern

  Researched problem of automatic detection of trouble spots in crop fields using unlabeled overhead imagery. My teams solution relied on unsupervised machine learning and novel feature engineering.

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  Indico data solutions

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2015

  Advanced Development Intern

  indico is a software company that makes machine learning accessible in areas of extracting insight from text and image data. I researched and developed new machine learning models focused in the image understanding area and contributed as a core developer to a new version of indico's Image Features API.

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  Uber Advanced Technologies Group

  May 2016 - Aug 2016

  Software Engineering Intern
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  CrossRoad Optics

  May 2017 - Sept 2017

  Co-Founder and CTO

  CrossRoad Optics provides advocacy groups and traffic engineers a more wholistic understanding of safety at traffic intersections.Our software platform helps automate traffic studies by tracking pedestrians, bikes, and cars in video.We’re running a traffic study near Porter Square in Somerville where there’s a demand to increase safety and access for bicyclists. Our metrics will help the neighborhood better understand how to create bike friendly roadways.As a co-founder, I have been responsible for generating leads with our first pilot customers who need affordable traffic studies conducted. As CTO, I am responsible for ensuring our analysis software produces accurate measurements and delivers informative data visualizations. Show less

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  Northwestern University

  Sept 2017 - Apr 2024

  PHD Researcher

  PhD Student in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint program in Computer Science and Communications departments. In my research, I bring together skills in web/mobile development, applying AI to user interfaces and systems, and UX design and research. I use these skills to develop and evaluate novel social technologies for playing and socially connecting across distance. My work combined social media applications, ubiquitous and context-aware computing, and social psychology theories.Learn more about me and my research interests on my website: http://youralien.github.io/ Show less

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  Google

  Jun 2019 - Sept 2019

  Research Intern

  While a research intern on Google Research's People AI Research team (http://pair.google.com/), I studied how novice music composers could be better supported when co-creating with a deep generative model. I brought together my skills in human-computer interaction, UX, web development, and machine learning to build a system for more collaborative music co-creation with DNN models. This research was disseminated within ACM conferences for HCI and AI including CHI 2020 and IUI 2020. Link to full paper here (http://youralien.github.io/files/cococo_chi2020_copy.pdf) Show less

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  Stanford University Department of Computer Science

  Sept 2023 - now

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Creating an LLM powered training platform to scale tailored practice and feedback for therapists/counselors learning psychotherapy skills