Nick Yeo
Tech Lead, Global GenAI Lab at The HEINEKEN Company
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Yeo is a tech lead and AI practitioner with 10 years of experience building and deploying ML and NLP systems across industry and research, currently leading GenAI efforts at HEINEKEN's Global GenAI Lab. He combines PhD-level climate and remote-sensing expertise with hands-on production experience—having deployed LLM agents, open-source models for sensitive data, and automated analytics at GIC—to translate research into measurable business impact. A former AI Singapore tech lead, he has open-sourced NLP tooling and mentors industry adopters through AI4I and the Google AI Impact Challenge. Passionate about AI for environmental and social good, he co-founded a startup for remote workers and brings product-minded entrepreneurial experience from the NUS Overseas Colleges and a MIT visiting scholarship.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Minor in technopreneurship with NUS Technopreneurship Social Marketing, Minor in technopreneurship with NUS Technopreneurship Social Marketing at Stanford UniversityVisiting Researcher Joint program for the science and policy of global change, Visiting Researcher Joint program for the science and policy of global change at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNOC Silicon Valley Batch 20 Product management, NOC Silicon Valley Batch 20 Product management at NUS Overseas CollegesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Thai
Github Skills (22)
sentence9
gensim8
glove8
fasttext8
word2vec8
retrieval7
allennlp7
word-embeddings7
sentence-similarity7
nlp7
natural-language-processing6
sentence-embeddings6
utility-mod6
arabic-nlp6
data-processing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nickyeolk/principia
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nickyeolk/quickml
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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