Anson Wong
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Layer 6 AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnson Wong is a Machine Learning Research Scientist with a PhD in theoretical physics and nine years of combined experience in AI and physics research, currently building deep learning and reinforcement learning systems at Layer 6 AI. He designs and implements practical models across computer vision, NLP, recommender systems, and RL for domains spanning finance, healthcare, sports, video games, and music, and has published six scientific papers while presenting at conferences. Trained in rigorous numerical methods from string theory to condensed matter, he brings a physicist’s mathematical intuition to large-scale ML problems and open-ended research. Beyond production work, he shares tutorials and projects on GitHub and technical write-ups on Medium, reflecting a commitment to reproducible research and community learning.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at The University of British ColumbiaBSc, Mathematical Physics, Pure Math Minor, BSc, Mathematical Physics, Pure Math Minor at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (34)
deep-q-network10
convolutional-neural-networks10
object-recognition10
mahjong10
image-recognition10
reinforcement-learning10
image-retrieval10
markov-decision-processes10
agent10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
transfer-learning10
q-learning10
multiclass-classification10
optimization10
data-science9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ankonzoid/Google-QuickDraw
Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
pythondeep-learningquickdrawmachine-learningnoisy
ankonzoid/LearningX
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Deep & Classical Reinforcement Learning + Machine Learning Examples in Python
Contributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 187 pushes in 9 months
pythonmultiagent-reinforcement-learningdeep-learningreinforcement-learningmahjong
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