Augustus Hong
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAugustus Hong is a senior data scientist and staff-level research engineer with 11 years of experience building ML-driven systems for autonomy, recommendation, and conversational AI. Currently at Rivian he focuses on planning and autonomy, bringing prior experience developing large deep-learning ranking models at Meta and NLP/LLM work at Cresta and Woebot. He has a strong full-stack background—shipping production services, analytics backends, and A/B experiments—grounded in a BS in Computer Engineering from Purdue and an MS in AI from Stanford. Known for bridging research and product, Augustus excels at turning large models and messy data into reliable, scalable features for real-world products. An understated thread through his career is shipping end-to-end solutions that span model development, data strategy, and operational dashboards.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
distributed-algorithms9
share-link5
event-tracking3
deep-linking2
sms2
deeplink2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kjchavez/distributed-deep-q
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Project for CME 323: Distributed Algorithms and Optimization
Contributions:38 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
distributed-algorithms
kjchavez/MyoASL
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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