Chris Nguyen
Data Scientist II
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nguyen is a Senior ML/AI Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in deep learning for NLP, transfer learning, semi-supervised methods, and neural information retrieval. He has led end-to-end ML lifecycles from research and prototyping to production microservices at companies including Microsoft (Bing Shopping), SkyHive, and now RXNT, bringing strong Python engineering skills and practical experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face. Known for creatively leveraging weakly- and semi-supervised approaches (UDA, MixMatch, backtranslation, manifold mixup) to squeeze performance from sparse labels, he pairs research instincts with hands-on deployment using FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Chris’s background spans both academic research and industry productization, and he contributes to open-source NLP tooling, reflecting a balance of rigor and pragmatic shipping.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Analysis Program Applied Mathematics, Data Analysis Program Applied Mathematics at University of the Fraser ValleyMaster of Engineering (MEng) Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Engineering and Telecommunications at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Github Skills (75)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
exo10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
text-editor10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
anhtu/TSNE_in_Jupyter
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
chris-tng/blog
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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