Augustus Hong
Senior Data Scientist, Planning, Autonomy
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAugustus 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
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
credits4
event-tracking4
referrals3
sms3
deep-linking3
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kjchavez/distributed-deep-q
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kjchavez/MyoASL
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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