Yiran Wang
Ph.D. Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiran Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at USC Marshall with seven years of research and teaching experience rooted in psychology and behavioral science. Based in Los Angeles, she blends rigorous lab-based research (UCLA, Stanford) with applied teaching roles and a focus on organizational dynamics. Her technical interests span reinforcement learning, large language models, and automated theorem proving, signaling a rare cross-disciplinary bridge between computational methods and human-centered organizational research. Yiran’s honors thesis and multiple lab roles demonstrate a consistent focus on diversity, decision-making, and physiological as well as cognitive measures. She brings both empirical rigor and pedagogical experience to research teams, often translating complex methods into teachable insights. Anecdotally, her background pairing psychophysiology work with modern ML topics suggests she’s positioned to innovate at the intersection of human behavior and AI.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), PSYCHOLOGY, Associate of Arts (A.A.), PSYCHOLOGY at Foothill CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Organizational Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Organizational Behavior at University of Southern California - Marshall School of BusinessBachelor of Arts (B.A.), PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), PSYCHOLOGY at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
playing10
stable-baselines8
simulation7
mujoco7
robotics7
machine-learning7
reinforcement-learning7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
mahjong6
openai-gym6
pytorch6
pybullet5
deep-learning5
parallelization5
artificial-intelligence4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IanWangg/SparseMujoco
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
IanWangg/Robust-Exploration
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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