Brian Keng
Senior Director, AI Solutions at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBrian Keng is a seasoned AI and data science leader with 11+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems for enterprise customers across retail, supply chain, and financial services. Currently Senior Director, AI Solutions at RBC Borealis, he has previously served as Chief Data Scientist at Kinaxis and Rubikloud, where he helped scale a startup to a $60M acquisition. He combines deep technical expertise—PhD-level computer engineering and hands-on model and systems development—with people and practice-building skills such as hiring, academic partnerships, and curriculum-style data science evangelism. Brian also brings academic rigor to industry as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, teaching data science to the next generation of practitioners. Known for turning research into high-performance C++ engines and cloud AI products, he bridges the gap between algorithmic innovation and customer-facing, revenue-driving solutions. Based in Toronto, he blends startup grit with enterprise delivery discipline, often lifting teams to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at University of TorontoBASc Computer Engineering, BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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text-mining
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Github Skills (33)
python10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
jekyll10
data-analysis10
scikit9
scikit-learn9
text-mining9
forecast8
forecasts8
forecasting8
r8
forecasting-models8
pairwise7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bjlkeng/bjlkeng.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
My Github Pages Blog
Contributions:653 commits, 3 PRs, 431 pushes in 7 years 7 months
pages-blogjekyll
bjlkeng/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:24 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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