Alex Foo
PhD Candidate
Skåne County, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Foo is a PhD candidate and research fellow in computer science at the National University of Singapore with 21 years of professional experience spanning research, teaching, product and startup leadership. He develops machine learning and computer vision algorithms for healthcare applications—most notably diabetic retinopathy grading—while tutoring core CS courses such as machine learning and operating systems. Prior roles include co-founding and leading early-stage startups and shipping full‑stack products, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and entrepreneurial execution. Based in Skåne County / Singapore, he pairs an honours BSc from NUS with ongoing doctoral work, and his background as an instructor and freelance developer underscores strong communication and hands-on implementation skills. An understated thread through his career is translating research prototypes into usable systems for real-world impact.
21 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
GCE 'A' Level, GCE 'A' Level at Anglo-Chinese Junior CollegeGCE 'O' Level, GCE 'O' Level at Catholic High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Honours with Highest Distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Honours with Highest Distinction at National University of Singapore
Chinese, English
Github Skills (33)
alpine-linux10
unix10
browser10
kernel10
operating-system10
linux9
telegram9
swift9
docker8
macos8
serenity8
cordova-plugin6
laravel6
annotations6
primus5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dhab/devenv-laravel
May 2018 - May 2021
Docker image to run Laravel 5.x projects
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 3 years
docker-imagephpdockerlaravel-5laravel
alexfoo/git-dirty
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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