Taiwei Shi is a Ph.D. student at University of Southern California, advised by Professor Jieyu Zhao. Previously, he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Computer Science degree. He is from Dongguan, China.

At Georgia Tech, he was fortunate to be advised by Professors Mark Riedl and Diyi Yang. He spent his summer doing research at USC ISI, advised by Professors Jonathon May and Xuezhe Ma.

He is working towards a career where he can pursue his interests and make an impact in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the fields of natural language processing and computational social science.