Summary
Kun-hao Yeh is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience blending academic research in reinforcement learning and game AI with production ML and computer vision systems. He holds an MS in Computer Science, published improvements to temporal-difference learning in IEEE TCIAIG, and won awards including Best Paper at TAAI and first place in a 2048 AI competition. A Kaggle Grandmaster (peaked Top-5 globally) who has converted competition-grade solutions into real products, he has held roles from staff ML engineer at Japan Computer Vision Corp and H2O.ai to senior software engineer at MediaTek working on 5G chipsets. As a tech co-founder and Principal Data Scientist at Stepchange, he combines hands-on modeling across time-series, vision, NLP and tabular data with product strategy and team leadership. Not obviously, he also brings practical embedded-software and auto-testing experience from telecoms, enabling robust end-to-end deployment of ML into constrained, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science and Information Engineering, MS Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University
Exchange Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Exchange Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English