Ruohao Guo

Ruohao Guo

CS Ph.D. Student

Georgia Institute of Technology

Hi!

I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and my advisor is Prof. Alan Ritter. I previously received my Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During my time at UIUC, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Dan Roth.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, 2021 - Present

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2018 - 2021

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
Jun 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Compared different multilingual Named Entity Recognition models (eg. mBERT, XLM-R, Cogcomp) for 33 languages, and implemented an online demo with state-of-the-art performance.
  • Improved Named Entity Recognition for low-resource languages.
  • Participated in building a timeline summarization dataset.
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Course Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aug 2019 – May 2021

Responsibilities include:

  • Running labs and office hours
  • Designing lecture notes
  • Maintaining course websites
  • Answering questions on Piazza