Hi, I'm Shihao Ran

Data Scientist, Engineer, Gamer

I'm a Data Scientist, Engineer, and 3D Action MMORPG enthusiast. I designed high-voltage solar systems during undergrad, streamed live tweets for sentiment tracking on major online video games during graduate school, develop & deploy agentic AI systems at work.

Full-time cat dad, part-time photographer.

Shihao

Publications

Natural Language Processing & AI

CEHA: A Dataset of Conflict Events in the Horn of Africa

R Bai, D Lu, S Ran, EM Olson, H Lamba, A Cahill, J Tetreault, A Jaimes — COLING, 2025

Event Extraction as Question Generation and Answering

D Lu, S Ran, J Tetreault, A Jaimes — ACL, 2023

BUMP: A Benchmark of Unfaithful Minimal Pairs for Meta-Evaluation of Faithfulness Metrics

L Ma, S Cao, RL Logan IV, D Lu, S Ran, K Zhang, J Tetreault, A Jaimes — ACL, 2023

A New Task and Dataset on Detecting Attacks on Human Rights Defenders

S Ran, D Lu, A Cahill, J Tetreault, A Jaimes — Findings of ACL, 2023

CrisisLTLSum: A Benchmark for Local Crisis Event Timeline Extraction and Summarization

HR Faghihi, B Alhafni, K Zhang, S Ran, J Tetreault, A Jaimes — Findings of EMNLP, 2022

Biomedical Optics & Imaging

Enabling Chemical Holography: A Comprehensive Framework and Implementation

S Ran, D Mayerich, R Reddy — IEEE Photonics Journal, 2025

Deep Learning and Phase Retrieval for Chemical Holographic Imaging: System Inverse Modeling and Sample Property Prediction

S RanPhD Dissertation, University of Houston, 2020

Mitigating Fringing in Discrete Frequency Infrared Imaging Using Time-Delayed Integration

S Ran, S Berisha, R Mankar, WC Shih, D Mayerich — Biomedical Optics Express 9 (2), 2018

Comparison and Combination of Rotational Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography and Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy for Embryonic Study

C Wu, H Le, S Ran, M Singh, IV Larina, D Mayerich, ME Dickinson, et al. — Biomedical Optics Express 8 (10), 2017

A Dual-Modality Optical Coherence Tomography and Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy System for Mouse Embryonic Imaging

C Wu, S Ran, H Le, M Singh, IV Larina, D Mayerich, ME Dickinson, et al. — IEEE EMBC, 2017

Comparison of Rotational Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography and Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy for Embryonic Study

C Wu, S Ran, HH Le, M Singh, IV Larina, D Mayerich, ME Dickinson, et al. — Optical Methods in Developmental Biology IV, 9716, 2016

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