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Ryan Shi

Societal Computing Game Theory Online Learning Reinforcement Learning AI For Food Security
University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

About

Before joining SCI, Ryan Shi was a Ph.D. candidate of Societal Computing in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He works with nonprofit organizations to address societal challenges in food security, environmental conservation, and public health using AI. His research has been deployed at these organizations worldwide. Shi studies game theory, online learning, and reinforcement learning on problems motivated by these applications. He was the recipient of a 2023 IAAI Deployed Application Award, a 2022 Siebel Scholar Award, and a 2022 Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship, and was selected as a 2022 Rising Star in Data Science and ML & AI, by UChicago and USC, respectively. He has interned at Microsoft and Facebook during his Ph.D. Shi grew up in Henan, China before moving to the U.S., where he graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in mathematics and computer science.

Research Performance Summary

27
Total Papers
409
Total Citations
8
H-Index
2016-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Strategic reporting in exponential family prediction markets

Year: 2016

Citations: 0

Venue: MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), 2016 IEEE

Latest Recorded Paper

Scalable, sustainable, generalizable, and responsible AI for public sector

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39 (27), 28728

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
5
2024
4
2023
2
2022
1
2021
3
2020
7
2018
2
2017
2
2016
1

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 13
Journal 0
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Shi Fang

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 5
Citations 0
Avg. Citations / Paper 0
H-Index 0

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 17
Citations 295
Avg. Citations / Paper 17.4
H-Index 8

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 5
Citations 114
Avg. Citations / Paper 22.8
H-Index 3

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

RYANSHI@pitt.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Ai Social Good Artificial Intelligence Social Intelligence Social Good Social Good Survey Learning Decision Tree Decision Tree Policies Interpretable Agent Reinforcement Agent Reinforcement Learning Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Food Rescue Platforms