Jason Chong
Senior Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Chong is a Senior Data Scientist based in Melbourne with five years of experience translating actuarial rigor into scalable ML and AI solutions. Trained in actuarial science at the University of Melbourne and Macquarie's Actuary Program, he blends probabilistic thinking with practical model deployment from his multi-year tenure at Quantium. He progressed from actuarial analyst roles into data science, shipping production models and contributing thought leadership as a writer for Towards Data Science. Comfortable across the end-to-end ML lifecycle, Jason focuses on robust, auditable models suited to commercial decision-making in finance and analytics. He brings an unusually strong grounding in actuarial methods to data science, helping teams quantify risk and uncertainty more precisely. Ambitious and communication-oriented, he pairs technical depth with the ability to explain complex models to non-technical stakeholders.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Actuary Program, Actuarial Science, Distinction, Actuary Program, Actuarial Science, Distinction at Macquarie UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
feature-scaling9
imputation9
kaggle8
pandas8
data-manipulation8
scikit-learn3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chongjason914/feature-selection-dimensionality-reduction
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
chongjason914/pandas-tutorial
Aug 2020 - May 2021
Beginner's introduction to the pandas library for data manipulation
Contributions:37 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pandasdata-manipulation
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