Wei Woon
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Expedia Group
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWei Woon is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Expedia Group with over two decades of research and applied experience bridging academia and industry. He holds a PhD in Neural Computing and spent 16 years in faculty roles—most recently as an Associate Professor at Masdar Institute—where he led research, teaching, and doctoral supervision on AI, tech forecasting, and distributed systems. At RIKEN, MIT and other institutions he advanced EEG signal analysis and BCI methods, and he has advised UAE government entities on AI strategy. A prolific researcher with 100+ publications and 3,500+ citations, Wei combines deep theoretical expertise with hands-on production ML work, including practical fraud-detection analytics for enterprise healthcare data. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor, cross-cultural research collaborations, and product-focused machine learning delivery.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., Electronic Engineering, Honours, 1st Class, B.Eng., Electronic Engineering, Honours, 1st Class at The University of ManchesterPhD, Neural Computing, PhD, Neural Computing at Aston University
English, Malay, Chinese, JapaneseGithub contributions (5)
karipuf/partialDischarge
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
karipuf/karipuf.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years
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