Ruihuang Yang has worked with xLab for several semesters, first as an undergraduate computer science student, and currently as an MBA candidate. He has been the project tech lead on three projects, working on projects such as developing an AI-based customer service training agent for a large insurance company; using AI to enhance sales training for a logistics company; and working with a power management company to improve support processes with technology.
Ruihuang was also selected as one of the at this year鈥檚 , on Thursday, April 24. His talk, 鈥淎I as a Human-Like Interactive Agent: Current Limitations and the Future of Human-Like Agents鈥� will be about the evolution of human-like AI agents, starting from the Turing Test to the latest advancements in natural language processing, voice synthesis, and multimodal interactions. He鈥檒ll also discuss how these agents are being used across industries and highlight some of the real-world applications being worked on at xLab and CWRU.
鈥渪Lab has been a tremendous opportunity to gain hands-on experience with real industry projects instead of just learning concepts from lectures. These experiences have helped prepare me to step directly into the workforce and build production-ready solutions for companies,鈥� says Ruihuang.
Ruihuang will continue working with xLab this summer, as an intern experimenting with Weatherhead鈥檚 AI supercomputer for a project analyzing unstructured data for a company. This computer - and Ruihuang鈥檚 work with it - allows xLab to host its own fine-tuned open-source models and enables xLab teams to support both fine-tuning and inference tasks internally, which will greatly enhance project capabilities for xLab clients moving forward.