Tong Hui Kang
Work Experience
Quora
Nov 2021 - Present
Machine Learning Engineer
- Improved the recommendation systems for Quora feed and digest
- Generated many Quora questions with ChatGPT
- Made many tutorial bots on Poe, a marketplace of AI bots by Quora
- Technical domains: python, C++, PrestoSQL, git, prompt engineering
Versafleet
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Data Science Intern
- Explored vehicle and driver features to improve the estimate of the time of arrival
- Reviewed literature and prototyped a learning-based approach for vehicle routing problem
- Technical domains: python or-tools pandas matplotlib, git, PostgreSQL
Teralytics
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Data Science Intern
- Designed and implemented metrics to illustrate the accuracy of proposed methods
- Optimized and parallelised routine calculation pipelines with PySpark
- Collaborated on repositories through a code review process with supervisors
- Technical domains: python pandas matplotlib pyspark, git, unit tests, bash
2359 Media
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Software Engineer Intern
- Delivered an API for chatbot builders to provide logic to the chatbot without writing code
- Developed a file conversion tool to visualise the chatbot content in a spreadsheet
- Technical domains: nodejs Express, Azure Functions, python
Education
Singapore University of Technology and Design
May 2017 - Aug 2021
- Bachelors of Engineering with Honours
- Engineering Systems and Design, Operations Research Track with Computer Science Minor
- Grade Point Average > 4.00/5.00
Singapore Management University
May 2017 - Aug 2021
- Bachelor of Business Management
- Grade Point Average > 3.00/4.00
Activities
SUTD Robotics Club
May 2017 - March 2020
Committee Member, SAUVC participant
- Facilitated Arduino workshops for more than 100 participants
- Engineered hydrophones to locate pingers for SAUVC competition
Contests
Algorithms
Codeforces – rating 1599 specialist, rank 15000, over 110 contests
Present
Facebook Hack 2020 – Coding Challenge Top Team, Overall 2nd Team
Oct 2020
Credit Suisse CodeIT Suisse 2019 – Singapore 3rd Team
Sep 2019
Data Science
Shopee Code League 2020
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
- Top 70 among 400+ groups for each data science and data analytics component
- Awarded 5 Kaggle Bronze medals from notebooks shared with the community
Temasek HyperHack Datathon 2019 – Winning Team out of 12 teams
Nov 2019
- Analysed synthesised personal data in a secure environment
- Pitched the value of data collaboration to a panel of judges
Bank of Singapore CodeBOSS 2019 – 3rd team
Oct 2019
- Responsible for the data science component in the team
- Predicted housing prices based on given and engineered features
EY NextWave Data Science Challenge - local 3rd team
Apr 2019
- Tasked to predict whether a device ends up in a specific area
- Presented the solution and journey to EY data scientists in local finals
Shopee National Data Science Challenge 2019 – LB 16th/250, Merit Team
Mar 2019
- Tasked to determine the category of a product given its image and title
- Developed and shared a baseline NLP model adopted by 200+ other participants
Academic Projects
40.014 Engineering Systems Architecture
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
HealthOrWealth - a card game to teach policymaking
- Delivered a game to let players experience tradeoffs faced by policymakers in a pandemic
- Prototyped an RShiny companion to assist the game
40.012 Manufacturing and Service Operations
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Inventory Management for Pharmaforte
- Modelled demand distribution from product data and employed (Q,r) inventory model
- Project writeup is featured in a school biannual newsletter
40.011 Data and Business Analytics
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Population Density Prediction for Teralytics
- Implemented algorithms to predict population density distribution 10 mins in the future
- Improved the mean squared error by 50% from the baseline
40.015 Simulation Modelling and Analysis
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Housing Prices Simulation
- Simulated housing prices with individual agents and houses on a grid
- Reproduced some characteristics of the housing market such as inflation and homelessness
- Project video is featured in the end-of-term showcase
3.007 Introduction to Design
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Automatic Anti-Afterimage Glasses
- Prototyped eyeglasses that darken in response to incident headlights to prevent afterimages
- Conducted comprehensive user tests in multiple live environments
- Project is featured in the university open house and library exhibitions