Research

Sherry Ruan, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Kenny Liou, Andrew Ng, James Landay. Comparing Speech and Keyboard Text Entry for Short Messages in Two Languages on Touchscreen Phones. Ubicomp. 2017.
S. S. Ruan, G. Comanici, P. Panangaden, D. Precup. Representation Discovery for MDPs Using Bisimulation Metrics. The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2015. [Paper] [Slides]
S. S. Ruan. Bisimulation Metric Computation for Markov Decision Processes. The Ninth Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML). 2014. [Paper]
B. Pientka, S. S. Ruan, A. Abel. Structural Recursion over Contextual Objects. 2014. [Paper] [Long version]

Automatic Extraction of References Between Text and Tables. Stanford HCI+Design Open House. Stanford, CA, United States, May 7, 2016. [Poster]
Representation Discovery for MDPs Using Bisimulation Metrics. Machine Learning Summer School. Kyoto, Japan, August 23-September 4, 2015. [Poster]
Structural Recursion over Contextual Objects. The 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP-14). Gothenburg, Sweden, September 1-3, 2014. [Abstract] [Poster] [Slides]
Bisimulation Metric Computation for Markov Decision Processes. The 10th Undergraduate Computer Science Research Symposium (UCORE-14). Montreal, QC, Canada, August 29, 2014. [Abstract] [Slides]
Well-founded Recursion over Contextual Objects. Carnegie Mellon University’s Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science Workshop (OurCS-13). Pittsburgh, PA, United States, October 18-20, 2013. [Poster]
Well-founded Recursion over Contextual Objects. Selected to represent mathematical and computational sciences at the 9th McGill Annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC-13). Montreal, QC, Canada, October 10, 2013. [Poster] [Slides]

Automatic Extraction of References Between Text and Charts. HCI Group, Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States, May 5, 2016. [Slides]
Towards Automatic Extraction of References Between Text and Tables. HCI Group, Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States, March 10, 2016. [Slides]
Bisimulation Metric Computation for Markov Decision Processes. Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University. Montreal, QC, Canada, August 20, 2014. [Slides]
On Using Earth Mover’s Distances for Bisimulation Metrics. Reasoning and Learning Lab, McGill University. Montreal, QC, Canada, June 25, 2014. [Slides]