Ron Kow
Senior Scientist at Singapore Food Agency
Singapore
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Top SchoolRon Kow is a senior scientist and data engineer with eight years’ experience applying NLP, information retrieval, and statistical modeling to real-world problems across academia, government, and education. He built search engines and ranking models on multi-million-record datasets at NTU’s SPIRIT lab and now applies analytics and epidemiology to food safety at the Singapore Food Agency. A former mathematics teacher, textbook editor, and co-founder of a maths-and-computing school, he excels at translating complex quantitative ideas into clear teaching and practical solutions. His background combines MSc degrees in AI and Statistics with hands-on R&D, risk-prediction models for food ecosystems, and business-process analysis for government proofs-of-concept. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-educator who favors precise communication and measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence at Nanyang Technological UniversityGraduate Diploma in Systems Analysis, Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis at National University of Singapore (Institute of Systems Science)Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)Master of Science, Statistics, Master of Science, Statistics at National University of SingaporeHwa Chong Institution
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Github Skills (10)
corenlp8
nlp8
python7
natural-language-processing7
pytorch7
artificial-intelligence7
machine-learning7
named-entity-recognition7
deep-learning6
stanford-nlp5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ronkow/amazon-product-review-summarizer
Nov 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
ronkow/C-code
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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