Summary
Chia Woo is a Data Science Manager with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and analytics systems across retail, hardware, insurance, and finance. She leads cross-functional ML teams, has architected large cloud migrations (AWS to Azure) and delivers GenAI agentic systems for tasks like automated executive summaries and spend optimization. Her work spans the full ML lifecycle—demand forecasting and price-elasticity optimization, anomaly detection, synthetic data generation, and recommender systems—bringing models into measurable business impact. A hands-on engineer by training (full-stack and automation background) who rose from test engineering to lead data science, she pairs technical depth with stakeholder-facing product sense. Based in Guangdong/Singapore, she emphasizes ethical AI and governance while mentoring teams to balance scalability, compliance, and real-world value. Her GitHub ethos—“more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness”—hints at a collaborative leadership style that values humane engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematical Science Computational Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematical Science Computational Mathematics at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Secondary Science Track UEC (O/A Level) STPM (A Level), Secondary Science Track UEC (O/A Level) STPM (A Level) at Chong Hwa Independent High School
Master's Degree Knowledge Engineering Data Science, Master's Degree Knowledge Engineering Data Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Chinese