Nuan Wen
Graduate Research Assistant
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNuan Wen is a graduate research assistant and PhD candidate at USC with a decade of software and research experience focused on natural language processing. She has contributed to NLP research and projects at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and Dr. Nanyun Peng’s PLUSLab, bringing practical engineering experience from internships and roles at eBay and UCSB. Comfortable bridging research and implementation, Nuan combines deep academic training (BS from UCSB, MS and ongoing PhD at USC) with hands-on work in tutoring, mentoring, and paid research assistantships. Her interests blend technical NLP insights with human-centered perspectives—she cites Nonviolent Communication and The Book of Why as influential readings—suggesting a thoughtful approach to language, causality, and collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of California, Santa Barbara
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
benchmark10
machine-learning8
bert-embeddings7
bert7
visual-question-answering7
attention-mechanism6
hierarchical6
real-time-data5
react4
python4
pytorch3
attention-model3
deep-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nuankw/Summer-Research-2018-Part-One
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes, 5 comments in 10 months
nuankw/mcs-demo
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Machine Common Sense Demo
Contributions:3 releases, 159 commits, 64 pushes in 1 year 3 months
sensecommon-sensemachine-learning
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