Summary
Yew Chia is a data scientist and applied AI practitioner with eight years of experience who recently transitioned from a PhD in Information Systems Technology and Design at SUTD and NLP research roles at Alibaba into an industry role at Balyasny Asset Management. His work sits at the intersection of large language models, reasoning, multimodal learning, retrieval-augmented generation and information extraction, and his research has accrued over 900 citations, reflecting real impact in the field. He has hands-on experience deploying deep learning solutions from startup to corporate research environments and a track record in zero-shot learning, structured prediction and sentiment analysis. A former platoon commander in the Singapore Armed Forces, he brings disciplined leadership and operational planning to technical projects.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Systems Technology and Design, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Systems Technology and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Hwa Chong Junior College