Summary
Victor Luu is an applied researcher and AI/ML engineer based in Sunnyvale with over a decade of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning solutions across e-commerce, fintech, mobility, and advertising. He has held research and senior engineering roles at eBay and Instacart and led data science teams at Global Fashion Group and UOB, blending production ML engineering with applied research rigor. Victor’s academic background—PhDs in Machine Learning and Social Network Mining and an M.S. in PDEs—gives him deep mathematical foundations that he leverages to tackle complex modeling and inference problems. He’s comfortable taking projects from research prototypes to production systems, with experience analyzing large-scale user and mobility datasets and detecting subtle patterns in noisy logs. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs theory-driven approaches with pragmatic engineering and a track record of shipping data-driven products in high-growth environments. An early career lecturer in advanced mathematics, he brings rare teaching and communication skills to explain technical work to diverse stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Network Mining, School of Information System, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Network Mining, School of Information System at Singapore Management University
Mathematics, A+ equivalence, Mathematics, A+ equivalence at HIgh school for the Gifted
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Japanese, French