Anh Truong is a machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in AI, recommendation systems, NLP, and synthetic data generation, currently based in Urbana, Illinois. She has driven production-grade deep learning and content-ranking solutions at Tubi, improving homepage personalization, inference efficiency, and multi-framework workflows for movie recommendations. At Capital One she built sensitive information detection pipelines, automated ML tooling, and contributed performance and robustness fixes to the open-source DataProfiler project, improving CSV parsing and data labeling. Her PhD work on online recommendation and sleeping experts adds a strong theoretical grounding to her applied work in sequential models and bandits. Known for pragmatic optimization—memory and latency-conscious model and pipeline improvements—she bridges research and engineering to deliver scalable solutions. Outside product work she has applied generative models and business rules to create realistic synthetic datasets for testing and privacy-aware use cases.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Telecommunications Engineering at HoChiMinh city University of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
What's in your data? Extract schema, statistics and entities from datasets
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:596 reviews, 35 commits, 58 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anh focused on improving the performance and functionality of the data labeling process within the dataprofiler repository. They optimized memory usage during string conversions in the data labeler. Furthermore, the user addressed and fixed a delimiter issue in the CSV data reader, adding test coverage to prevent incorrect data parsing. They also made improvements to the header detection and incorporated additional test files to enhance the robustness of the data profiling process. Finally they worked on the data labeler examples, providing more test cases and code refactoring.
What's in your data? Extract schema, statistics and entities from datasets
Contributions:28 PRs, 251 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
statisticspythondatadata-sciencedataset
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Anh Truong - Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Tubi