Marco Lui
Head Of Data Science (post-acquisition By Omio Group)
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolMarco Lui is a Head of Data Science with 16 years’ experience leading analytics and ML teams in travel tech, currently shaping data strategy at Rome2rio post-acquisition by Omio. He combines deep NLP research (PhD-level work in language identification) with hands-on engineering, having built production systems like geocoders and transit search optimizations. Marco hires and coaches cross-functional teams of data scientists, analysts and engineers to embed data-driven decision-making across product, acquisition and revenue functions. He contributed to an open-source Python language-identification project implementing multiprocessing tokenizers and experimental skew-based classification, reflecting a focus on pragmatic, performant solutions. Based in Melbourne, he pairs academia-grade modelling expertise with a track record of shipping scalable web services that directly impact user growth and monetization.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, Chinese, Chinese, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
python10
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
python-multiprocessing9
multiprocessing9
multi-process9
machine-learning8
data-analysis8
webservice8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
saffsd/langid.py
Feb 2011 - Jul 2017
Stand-alone language identification system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:241 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marco contributed to the development of a standalone language identification system written in Python. Their work involved the implementation of core components like a tokenizer utilizing multiprocessing for performance and a naive Bayes classifier. They introduced an experimental approach to language identification, including a skew-based method. They also added web service capabilities to the system.
nlpbootstrappingstand-alonestandphonetics
saffsd/kaggle-stackoverflow2012
Nov 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
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