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 (33)
convolutional-neural-networks10
object-recognition10
python10
image-processing10
image-recognition10
machine-learning-algorithms10
reinforcement-learning10
image-retrieval10
recommender-system10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
transfer-learning10
q-learning10
optimization10
data-science9
image-classification9
Programming languages (3)
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/artificio
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Deep Learning Computer Vision Algorithms for Real-World Use
Contributions:3 commits, 10 PRs, 117 pushes in 26 days
computer-visiondeep-learningneural-networksapplicationsartificial-intelligence
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