DietNerd: A Nutrition Question-Answering System That Summarizes and Evaluates Peer-Reviewed Scientific Articles

Shela Wu received her B.A. in Mathematics from New York University in 2019 and is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence. She also currently works as a Data Scientist at Harbor Freight Tools and has over five years of experience in the Data and Analytics space. During her time as an undergraduate, Shela participated in two NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs, where she and her team presented their work on visible light communication at the IEEE Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) Conference and were awarded second place at New York Institute of Technology’s Eighth Annual Cybersecurity Conference.

Prof. Dennis E. Shasha received a B.Sc.in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Yale University (1977), an M.Sc. from Syracuse University (1980), and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University (1984). Dennis E. Shasha is currently a Julius Silver Professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of New York University and an Associate Director of NYU Wireless. He works on problems that resemble puzzles, including meta-algorithms for machine learning to achieve guaranteed correctness rates, causality algorithms with plant biologists and ecologists, automated verification for concurrent algorithms, a tool for policy planners facing epidemics, tree and graph matching, algorithms for time series for finance, and devices to combat opioid deviation and flooding. In his spare time, he has written six books of puzzles about a mathematical detective named Dr. Ecco, a biography about great computer scientists, and a book about the future of computing. He has also written eight technical books about database tuning, biological pattern recognition, time series, DNA computing, nonparametric statistics, data structures, and automated verification. He has written more than 85 journal papers, 80 conference papers, and 25 patents. He is a fellow of the ACM, an INRIA International Chair, and a senior member of the US National Academy of Inventors.