Zechy Wong
Deputy Director at Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT)
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolZechy Wong is a deputy director and R&D-trained computational linguist with 11 years of experience building and leading ML/NLP teams in government research and delivery contexts. He combines a PhD in Linguistics with hands-on expertise in HLT, data science, and MLOps—having moved projects from research prototypes to API microservices and sustained production systems. As a manager he prioritises people development and cross-functional collaboration, removing organisational and technical blockers so teams can deliver substantive value to stakeholders. His background in humanities-informed linguistics gives him a distinctive ability to translate complex language technology into practical solutions for policy and public-sector partners.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaStudent Exchange Programme, Linguistics, Student Exchange Programme, Linguistics at Korea UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), 1st Class Hons., Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), 1st Class Hons., Linguistics at National University of Singapore
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (94)
annotations10
iterative10
linguistics10
packaging10
dependency-management9
python9
dependency-manager9
package-manager9
nlp8
active-learning8
dependency-free8
enums8
python-packaging8
topic-modeling8
modular8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CreativeCodingLab/TextAnnotationGraphs
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
A modular annotation system that supports complex, interactive annotation graphs embedded on top of sequences of text.
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
annotationsgraphslinguisticsmodularembedded
ZechyW/ignis-tm
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Ignis: Iterative Topic Modelling Platform
Contributions:2 releases, 92 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 2 months
nlpanalyticsiterativemachine-learningtopic-modelling
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