Hunter Xu
Data Scientist
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHunter Xu is a data scientist based in Sydney with 10 years of software and research experience, currently building generative AI workflows at Arc Intelligence Lab while maintaining multiple teaching and supervisory roles at the University of Sydney. His background blends hands-on engineering (from early game development at Nexon to R&D software roles at UNSW) with academic research and course design, enabling him to translate cutting-edge ML research into practical curricula and production-ready systems. He is an active open-source contributor and educator who often bridges industry and academia, supervising projects that expose students to real-world AI deployments. Hunter’s cross-cultural education—from Helsinki to Hong Kong and Sydney—and stints in project management and strategic consulting give him an unusually broad perspective on product, pedagogy, and research. Colleagues describe him simply as “Just a Coder,” but his career shows a pattern of shipping impactful code, designing learning experiences, and operationalising generative models for applied problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of MOOC, Master of MOOC at edXThe University of SydneyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at University of HelsinkiThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
protocol-buffers10
tensorflowjs10
protobuf10
serialization10
rpc10
image-hosting10
marshalling9
minio9
wechat9
laravel9
rest9
golang9
hexo9
camunda9
protoc9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HunterXuan/wx-tfjs-demo
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:86 commits, 26 PRs, 70 pushes in 3 years 8 months
tensorflow-demotensorflowjswechatwechat-mini-programtensorflow
HunterXuan/bt
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:80 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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