Kwei-herng Lai
Applied Scientist at Microsoft
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKwei-herng Lai is an applied scientist and PhD candidate in computer science with around a decade of experience building production-ready machine learning systems across anomaly detection, recommendation, graph representation learning, and reinforcement learning. He has partnered with industry leaders—Microsoft, Apple, General Motors, Visa, Trane, KKBOX and Cathay United Bank—translating research into scalable solutions that improved stability and business performance. His work spans both academic venues (IJCAI, AAAI, KDD) and high-impact engineering: open-source projects for imperfect-information game AI (600+ stars) and large-scale network representation learning (200+ stars). At Texas A&M and Rice he developed unsupervised fault detection and game-AI toolkits, and at Visa explored domain adaptation for time-series anomaly detection to enable cross-domain transfer. Currently at Microsoft after a stint as a machine learning engineer at Apple, he blends deep research rigor with hands-on productization experience in San Diego. A less obvious strength is his consistent track record of turning complex academic models into practical, production-grade pipelines used in diverse industrial settings.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at National Chengchi UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Rice UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Texas A&M University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (26)
discord-bot8
scraper8
discord7
music6
player6
chat6
psexec6
python6
csharp5
extractor5
google-play5
3ds5
extraction5
dotnet5
android-widget5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
darxmorph/VideoDownloader
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Download videos from formula1.com
Contributions:6 releases, 8 commits, 6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
downloaderpythonvideosformula1download-videos
darxmorph/VideoDownloader-OSX
Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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