Publications

Effects of Firm Performance on CEO Compensation Before and During COVID-19

Ryan Ye, Yanan Chen, Kyle A. Kelly

Research in Economics, 2023

This research analyzed how firm performance influenced CEO compensation structures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on changes in pay ratios and incentive alignment.

EconomicsCEO CompensationCOVID-19

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Research Positions

MABe25 - Animal Behavior Benchmark

Undergraduate Researcher — Sun Lab (PI: Jennifer Sun), Cornell University — February 2025 - Present

Benchmarking video-based AI models for classifying animal behavior across 16 research labs as part of the MABe25 competition.

My work has focused on:

  • Large-scale video understanding — evaluating whether pretrained video transformers (VideoMAE2, VideoPrism) can generalize to specialized behavioral science data across diverse lab settings
  • Multi-lab benchmark infrastructure — a dataset spanning 16 labs with varied recording conditions, designed to test model robustness for real-world scientific use

AI for Animal Behavior Monitoring - Project accepted to ADSA 2026 Poster!

Undergraduate Researcher — Sun Lab (PI: Jennifer Sun), Cornell University — May 2025 - Present

Building scalable computer vision systems for analyzing dairy calf behavior in agricultural environments, supporting veterinary researchers studying early indicators of disease and welfare.

My work has focused on:

  • Self-supervised vision for livestock monitoring — a pipeline using DINOv3 features and YOLOv11 detection to classify calf posture from farm camera footage with limited labeled data
  • Bridging AI and veterinary research — an interactive Jupyter workflow enabling everyone to run experiments and interpret results
  • Paper: "Automating pose detection in calves: a computer vision framework for non-invasive behavioral monitoring." — Accepted to ADSA 2026 — thank you to all my advisors!

Conducted as part of the Bowers Undergraduate Research Experience (BURE) with support from a CIDA grant.


Research Interests

  • Machine learning and computer vision — deep learning systems for real-world perception tasks
  • AI for science — using ML to accelerate research in biology, agriculture, and medicine
  • Representation learning — self-supervised and foundation models (DINO, VLMs)
  • Data-efficient learning — methods that work well with limited labeled data