Summary
Yuya Ong is a Founding ML Engineer with 12 years of experience blending academic research and production software to build scalable AI systems, currently advancing memory and reasoning for LLMs at Plastic Labs. Previously a Senior Research Software Engineer at IBM Almaden, he delivered production-ready deep learning pipelines for cloud data governance, holds a patent pending in context-aware sensitive information detection, and has multiple research contributions in affective computing and time-series forecasting. His toolset spans low-level systems (C/C++), modern ML stacks (Python, Keras, Caffe, Spark), and hardware prototypes (Raspberry Pi, Kinect, Hololens), enabling end-to-end solutions from sensor to cloud. A founder of a university data-science organization and award-winning project lead, he mixes hands-on engineering with team leadership and a knack for turning exploratory research into practical microservice deployments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Data Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Data Sciences at Penn State University
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science using Java (CS-S111), Intensive Introduction to Computer Science using Java (CS-S111) at Harvard University
English, Japanese