Wanrong He 何婉榕
I am a first-year master's student at Stanford University and the founder and CEO of Bondy AI. Previously, I was a student in Yao Class led by Prof. Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University. My broad interests include natural language processing (NLP), human-computer interaction (HCI), and social computing. I am also passionate about building real-world applications for consumers in these areas.
EDUCATION
Tsinghua University
Undergraduate • Yao Class (Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences) • Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
Selected awards:
- Yao Award Silver Prize (top 3/93)
- Comprehensive Excellence Award (2019-2020)
- Comprehensive Excellence Award (2020-2021)
Stanford University
Research intern (UGVR program) • Computer Science Department • Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Member of the Chinese Undergraduate Visiting Research (UGVR) Program (Less than 18 junior students are selected each year)
University of Maryland, College Park
Research intern • Computer Science Department • Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Tsinghua High School
High school • Special Pilot Class • Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Selected awards:
- Principal Scholarship (top 10/3,000+)
- National First Prize of Awarding Program for Future Scientists
- Grand Award and Gold Award (Computer) in S.-T. Yau High School Science Award (top 1/1,000+)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Bondy AI Inc
Founder & CEO • May 2023 - Present
As the founder of Bondy AI Inc, I led the product development of AI Anywhere, a desktop AI copilot that allows users to access common AI functions with just one click. AI Anywhere achieved #4 Product of the Day and gained over 20k users within 2 months of launching.
We are now pivoting focus to developing Mochi, an LLM agent that helps users find like-minded friends and interesting activities.
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Microsoft Research Asia
Intern • Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
I have designed a hierarchical transformer-based decoder for formula sketch generation by multi-level expanding non-terminals in the parse tree. I have received the Award of Excellence in the Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program.
AWARDS & HONORS
Award | Date |
Best Paper Award, CSCW 2023 | Oct 2023 |
Top 3 in the Tsingsing Cup Big Model Entrepreneurship Competition, Tsinghua University | Jun 2023 |
Silver Prize (top 3/93), Yao Award (Dean’s Award), Tsinghua University | Oct 2022 |
Science and Technology Innovation Excellence Award, Tsinghua University | Oct 2022 |
Social Work Excellence Award, Tsinghua University | Oct 2022 |
Comprehensive Excellence Award (top 10%), Tsinghua University | Oct 2021 |
Award of Excellence, Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program, Microsoft Research Asia | Sep 2021 |
Top 3 in Tsinghua Great Idea Challenge, Tsinghua University | Jun 2021 |
Comprehensive Excellence Award (top 10%), Tsinghua University | Oct 2020 |
National First Prize, Awarding Program for Future Scientists | Nov 2018 |
Top 1%, American Mathematics Contest 12 (AMC 12) | Mar 2018 |
Grand Award (top 1/1,000+), S.-T. Yau High School Science Award | Dec 2017 |
Principal Scholarship (top 10/3,000+), Tsinghua University High School | Sep 2017 |
PUBLICATIONS
🏆 Wanrong He, Mitchell Gordon, Lindsay Popowski, Michael Bernstein. Cura: Curation at Social Media Scale. CSCW 2023 (Best Paper Award). [PDF]
Wanrong He, Haoyu Dong, Yihuai Gao, Shi Han. HermEs: Interactive Spreadsheet Formula Prediction via Hierarchical Formulet Expansion. ACL 2023. [PDF]
Wanrong He, Andrew Mao, Jordan Boyd-Graber. Cheater's Bowl: Human vs. Computer Search Strategies for Open-Domain Question Answering. Findings of EMNLP 2022. [PDF] [Video] [Talk]
Chenyu Yang, Wanrong He, Yingqing Xu, Yang Gao. EleGANt: Exquisite and Locally Editable GAN for Makeup Transfer. ECCV 2022. [PDF] [Code]
Wanrong He, Yungui Zhang, Jianjun Zhou. Study of Geometry Lecturing Tool Based on GeoGebra Plotting. Won Grand Prize in S.-T. Yau High School Science Award. [PDF]
ACTIVITIES
I enjoy singing and playing table tennis. I am a member of the IIIS Table Tennis Club.
I am also interested in leadership and entrepreneurship, wishing to empower a better society with modern technology.
- Member of ACSSS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department, Stanford University • Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
- Class leader of Yao Class, Tsinghua University • Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
- Organizer and presenter of Yao Class Seminar, Tsinghua University • Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
- Vice President of Student Association of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University • Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
- Student mentor of Tsinghua High School Advance Research Lab (Computer Science) • Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
- Led a 5-people team to design the Intelligent Caregiver Management System and achieve top 3 in Tsinghua Great Idea Challenge (Sustainable Communities track) • Apr 2021 – Jun 2021
- Cofounder of Women in CS, interviewed alumna Prof. Danqi Chen • Apr 2021 – Jun 2021
- Interview with 8 Tsinghua University alumni entrepreneurs • Jan 2021 – Mar 2021
- Founder and donor of Tsinghua High School Little Banyan Tree Student Charity Fund • Jun 2018 – present
