Summary
Ross Cheung is a senior scientist and machine learning engineer with nine years of experience building production-ready ML, computer vision, and data infrastructure solutions across startups, government, and academia. With a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from UCLA and a BS in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford, he blends rigorous inverse modeling and physical simulation expertise with hands-on deep learning and algorithm development. He has led projects ranging from real-time Azure-based IoT air quality pipelines and MySQL-backed sensor networks handling millions of measurements per day to LIDAR and spectrometer computer vision solutions for novel sensing applications. Ross is comfortable taking projects from research-grade models to deployable systems—writing Python automation (including Selenium bots), data pipelines, and error analysis tools—and has a track record of extracting 2–3× more information from spectroscopic datasets than prior approaches. A US citizen based in Los Angeles, he’s equally at home collaborating with startups to deliver NLP and CV improvements as he is designing scientific retrieval algorithms for environmental monitoring.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Stanford University