Haoyu Wang
Research Assistant at Persephone’s Basket
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaoyu Wang is a PhD student and research assistant at UPenn specializing in event-centric NLP within the Cognitive Computation Group under Prof. Dan Roth, combining deep academic research with practical AI product work. With eight years of experience across top industry labs and internships—including Google DeepMind, AWS, AI2, Tencent, and TikTok—he has a strong track record in applied research and production-minded ML. He co-founded Moor AI, building an LLM-powered companion chat app for emotional support, and currently serves as CTO at a venture called Persephone’s Basket, signaling a blend of entrepreneurship and technical leadership. His research background spans pose estimation and tracking to language understanding, reflecting interdisciplinary strengths from exchanges at Sungkyunkwan and UW to degrees from SJTU and UPenn. Notably, Haoyu moves fluidly between research and product: he ships models in industrial settings while advancing core NLP science in academia. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare combination of high-impact internships, startup-building experience, and ongoing doctoral research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityExchange student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Exchange student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of WashingtonExchange Student, Exchange Student at Sungkyunkwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
natural-language-generation1
generalization1
nlp1
dialogue-systems1
language-model1
natural-language-processing1
few-shot-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
why2011btv/why2011btv.github.io
Apr 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:347 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
why2011btv/Dolores_AKBC20
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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