Yuya Ong
Founding ML Engineer at Plastic Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYuya 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 UniversityIntensive Introduction to Computer Science using Java (CS-S111), Intensive Introduction to Computer Science using Java (CS-S111) at Harvard University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (49)
word2vec9
chatgpt-api9
lda9
fasttext9
prompt-tuning9
topic-modeling9
prompting9
nlp8
gensim8
prompt-toolkit8
glove8
sentence-similarity8
corpus8
python8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yutarochan/emotic
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:23 commits in 6 months
yutarochan/clickbait
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:85 commits, 44 pushes in 27 days
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