Winson Chen
Scholar

Winson Chen

Google Scholar ID: RhM7lloAAAAJ
University of California, Santa Cruz
Computer ScienceMachine LearningGenerative AIScientific ComputingHPC
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
50
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
1
 
Publications
6
 
Co-authors
10
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • In 2023, Team Athena was awarded Second Place (Science Innovation Winner, $50,000) in the Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5. In November 2022, he received a travel grant to present 'Early experience with transformer-based similarity analysis for DataRaceBench' at the Correctness workshop at SC22. The paper was accepted by the Correctness Workshop 2022 at SC22 in October 2022.
Research Experience
  • He has worked on LLM and NLP topics, including achieving 2nd place in the scientific innovation category in the Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5 with personalization questions.
Education
  • He is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. Caiwen Ding. Previously, he was advised by Prof. Eric Xin Wang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he worked on various large language model (LLM) and natural language processing (NLP) topics.
Background
  • His research interests lie in understanding AI Agents, Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Agents. He is particularly fascinated by task-driven autonomous agents and their interaction with computer-use.
Miscellany
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