Sean Ren
Cofounder at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Ren is a cofounder and AI researcher with 12 years of experience building systems that push large models toward complex, human-like reasoning and interaction. Based in Los Angeles, he combines entrepreneurial leadership at Sahara AI with an active academic role as Associate Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair at USC, directing the INK Lab and leading research at ISI. His work spans NLP, representation learning, and applied ML, informed by industrial research stints at AI2, Microsoft, and Snap and early product experience as a startup cofounder. Known for bridging rigorous research and pragmatic system-building, he focuses on decentralized, equitable AI platforms and novel model evaluation challenges that uncover latent capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (36)
recurrent10
relation-extraction10
temporal10
extraction10
knowledge-graph10
relation10
ranking10
science10
reasoning10
computer-science10
biomedical10
crf10
react10
entity-linking9
pytorch9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shanzhenren/kbcom18
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:167 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
INK-USC/USC-DS-RelationExtraction
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction
Contributions:80 commits, 6 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pytorchnlpextractionsupervisedentity-linking
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