Chin Hau Hoo
Lead Data Scientist
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolChin Hau Hoo is a Lead Data Scientist based in Singapore with 12 years of experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world products across Grab and Apple. He progressed from software engineering and research—earning a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering—to leadership in production ML, shipping search and language-processing solutions at Apple and end-to-end data products at Grab. His background spans FPGA and parallel computing research, GPU rendering experiments, and applied NLP, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and product-focused ML delivery. Known for translating academic rigor into scalable services across Southeast Asia, he brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to improving transportation, payments, and logistics for millions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
Malay, Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
vim5
macos4
editor3
text-editor3
macvim2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chinhau5/parallel_eda
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:133 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
chinhau5/vrouter
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 26 days
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