Koby Choy

Koby Choy

Co-Founder, Software Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Co-Founder of Molekiu Limited

  • Education

    • University of Toronto

      2018 - 2022
      Bachelor's degree Computer Science Honours Bachelor Of Science with High Distinction
    • HKUST SENG MSc BDT Program

      2022 - 2024
      Master's degree
  • Experience

    • Molekiu

      May 2019 - Aug 2019
      Co-Founder, Software Engineer

      - Use Java, Android Studio and robot SDK to code apps for the robot- Built a reception app, allowing the robot to act like a receptionist, contacting people in the offices, issuing digital badges to visitors of the company, and leading visitors to different places of the office.- Built a backend website for a museum app, using html, css and php, allowing users to upload materials to the server via the website and retrieving those data in the android app.

    • University of Toronto

      Sept 2019 - Apr 2020
      Research Assistant

      - Did research under the Political Science Department in University of Toronto, under supervision of Professor Lynette Ong- Worked with data on Excel and keyword extraction program

    • Molekiu

      Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
      Cofounder, Software Engineer

      - Built a Content Robot Management System for the robots using Django, javascript, HTML, Bootstrap and CSS- Used AWS S3 Bucket for storage of media files, and AWS Cloudfront to reduce the latency of website- Also built a REST API for the application using DjangoRestFramework, so as to create endpoints for the development of the android app, which will be installed into the Robot

    • Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab

      Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
      Research Assistant at Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab

      - Implemented Reinforcement Learning algorithms (Thompson sampling and its variations)- Built chatbots using Azure Bot Framework Composer, and the python Bot Framework SDK- Coded chatbots to perform tasks described in protocols- Wrote codes in Django Web application so that it interacts with the bots through DirectLineAPI- Set up Celery for scheduled messaging tasks- Deployed Django web application on Azure VM

    • Intact

      May 2021 - Aug 2021
      AI Engineer Intern

      - Wrote and conducted unit tests and integration tests for data pipelines using pytest, unittest.mock- Worked on a flask web application, which is a dashbaord to visualize model predictions and raw data using plotly.dash and redesign callback dependency between different UI elements- Deployed dashboard in Kubernetes using GitLab - Managed CI-CD pipelines in GitLab- Designed Error handling protocol, which includes logging, error codes, and error messages

    • Molekiu

      May 2022 - now
      Co-Founder, Lead Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme 2022/23 MSc in Big Data Program of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology May 2022
    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      The Professor William Kingston and Dr John Kingston Scholarship Victoria College of University Of Toronto Aug 2020 Scholarship Award made basis of academic performance I achieved for my second of 5.0 credits
    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      The Janet Jarrett Memorial Scholarship Victoria College of University of Toronto Sep 2019 Scholarship Awarded made on the basis of the academic performance in the first 5.0 credits
    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      The Regents Admission Scholarship Victoria College in the University of Toronto Sep 2018 Admission Scholarship
    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      10th Annual Nakamura Keith Haring Collection International Children’s Drawing Contest: Klyoharu Art Colony Award Nakamura Keith Haring Collection. Jul 2018
    • Awarded to Koby Choy
      48th World Schoolchildren’s Art Exhibition: Gold Award The Association for Education through Art Republic Of China May 2018