Summary
Rhys Compton is an ML-focused software engineer and current MS student at NYU with nine years of hands-on experience building production-ready AI systems across healthcare, agriculture, and SEO. A 2020 Fulbright Scholar and Waikato Engineering (Hons) alumnus, he has published at top-tier ML venues and contributed research that improved medical chatbot naturalness and emotion detection from limited data. Rhys combines deep learning research with pragmatic engineering—shipping Faster-RCNN detection on edge devices, deploying GPT-based NLG as scalable APIs, and building end-to-end C#/NoSQL products as a sole contractor. Based in San Francisco, he excels at turning novel prompting and synthetic-data ideas into reproducible pipelines and papers, bridging academic rigor with product delivery.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Software Engineering, A+, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Software Engineering, A+ at The University of Waikato