Tong Hui Kang

Final Year Student
at Singapore University of Technology and Design
and Singapore Management University

Interested in

empowering information-sharing communities, and competitive programming

Education

Singapore University of Technology and Design May 2017 - Aug 2021

• Bachelors of Engineering with Honours
• Engineering Systems and Design, Operations Research Track with Information Systems Minor
• Current CGPA > 4.00/5.00

Singapore Management University May 2017 - Aug 2021

• Bachelor of Business Management
• Current CGPA > 3.00/4.00

Work Experience

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
• 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

Research Projects

Live Piano Cover Transcription Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

• Generated a dataset of synthesized piano covers and its respective scores for training
• Developed a machine learning model to transcribe piano covers within two octaves

Fake News Chrome Extension Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

• Constructed a Python API to detect registered falsehoods with subject-word-object triplets

Co-curricular 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 50 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