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Kha Vo

Kha Vo

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Kaggle Grandmaster (with 10 competition gold medals). PhD. Distinguished Talent AU citizen. ARC-AGI competitor/lover.

  • Education

    • Programme de Formation d'Ingenieurs d'Excellence au Vietnam

      2009 - 2014
      Bachelor's degree Mathematics

      An tough training program for top 0.001% students in Vietnam (free tuition, fully funded by French government Jacques Chirac), with 280 credits of subjects studied in 5 years. The aim of the program is to develop knowledge in advanced Math, Physics, Chemistry in the first 2 years, and then all aspects of engineering including Computer Science, Mechatronics, and Electrical in the final 3 years. The final aim of this program is long-term: it lets graduates have a broad spectrum of skills and are… Show more An tough training program for top 0.001% students in Vietnam (free tuition, fully funded by French government Jacques Chirac), with 280 credits of subjects studied in 5 years. The aim of the program is to develop knowledge in advanced Math, Physics, Chemistry in the first 2 years, and then all aspects of engineering including Computer Science, Mechatronics, and Electrical in the final 3 years. The final aim of this program is long-term: it lets graduates have a broad spectrum of skills and are able to choose an appropriate career path afterwards. Show less

    • University of Technology Sydney

      2016 - 2019
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning

  • Experience

    • KLA

      Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
      Data Engineer

    • Seldat Distribution Inc.

      Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
      Machine Learning Engineer

      Smart Moving for Automated Warehouse Robots

    • Bach Khoa University (fomerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology)

      Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
      Lecturer

      Lecturer in Statistical Modelling (Machine Learning) and Convex Optimization

    • University of Technology Sydney

      Aug 2016 - May 2019
      PHD Student

    • UNSW

      Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
      Machine Learning Research Fellow

      Identifying patients' linked records across multiple hospitals by machine learning.

    • Commonwealth Bank

      Sept 2018 - Mar 2019
      Data Scientist

      Graph convolutional net (GCN) for predicting linkage in SQL databases from billion of single scripts of the bank.

    • University of Technology Sydney

      Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
      Postdoctoral Researcher (Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning)

    • Collective[i]

      Oct 2020 - now

      • Data Science Lead

        Mar 2024 - now

      • Data Science Manager

        Oct 2021 - Mar 2024

      • Data Science Lead

        Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

    • H2O.ai

      Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
      Senior Customer Data Scientist

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • French DELF B1

      Mar 2014

    • IELTS 8.0

      British Council
      Jun 2016

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2021) Rank 1/2659 (gold medal) Google Brain: Ventilator Pressure Prediction Kaggle Nov 2021 Data science to better simulate a ventilator connected to a sedated patient's lung. More info on https://www.kaggle.com/c/ventilator-pressure-prediction/leaderboard
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2021) Rank 9/875 (gold medal) Hungry Geese Competition Kaggle Aug 2021 Reinforcement Learning and manual heuristics for 4-player Snake game. More info on https://www.kaggle.com/c/hungry-geese/leaderboard
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2020) Rank 8/1139 (gold medal) Halite by Two Sigma Kaggle Sep 2020 Write AI for a 4-player battle-royale Starcraft-similar game. More info on https://www.kaggle.com/c/halite/leaderboard
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2020) Rank 3/2618 (gold medal) Ion Switching Competition Kaggle May 2020 Deep Learning/Hidden Markov Modelling for Ion Switching Data
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2020) Rank 17/1620 (silver medal) Santa Workshop Tour 2019 Kaggle Feb 2020 Pure Mathematical Optimization for Assignment Problem
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2020) Rank 14/3497 (gold medal) Data Science Bowl 2019 Kaggle Jan 2020 Data Modelling for Measuring Educative Factors
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2019) Rank 10/2749 (gold medal) Predicting Molecular Properties Competition Kaggle Sep 2019 Develop an algorithm that can predict the magnetic interaction between two atoms in a molecule (i.e., the scalar coupling constant)
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2019) Rank 23/4541 (top 1%) LANL Earthquake Prediction Competition Kaggle Jun 2019 Forecasting earthquake by acoustic signal using various state-of-the-art machine learning models (tree-based, NN-based) and feature engineering skills.
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2019) Rank 8/1874 (top 1%) Travelling Santa Competition Kaggle Jan 2019 A pure mathematical optimization 2-month world-class competition on how to find the shortest path going through all cities of a 200000-city instance. Organized by Kaggle (the world's largest data science community). Ranking, competition dataset, and information available on https://www.kaggle.com/c/traveling-santa-2018-prime-paths). My critically-acclaimed code available on https://github.com/voanhkha/Traveling-Santa-2018-Kaggle and… Show more A pure mathematical optimization 2-month world-class competition on how to find the shortest path going through all cities of a 200000-city instance. Organized by Kaggle (the world's largest data science community). Ranking, competition dataset, and information available on https://www.kaggle.com/c/traveling-santa-2018-prime-paths). My critically-acclaimed code available on https://github.com/voanhkha/Traveling-Santa-2018-Kaggle and https://www.kaggle.com/khahuras/super-fast-cumsum-trick-8th-place-demo-solution Show less
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2018) Rank 10/653 (top 3%) TrackML Particle Tracking Competition Kaggle Aug 2018 A physics-machine learning 3-month world-class competition on how to employ machine learning to detect travelling helices of high-energy particles. Organized by CERN (the world's largest high energy physics laboratory) and Kaggle (the world's largest data science community). Ranking, competition dataset, and information available on https://www.kaggle.com/c/trackml-particle-identification/leaderboard)
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2017) Faculty Research Showcase - 2nd Prize Oral Presentation Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, UTS Jun 2017
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2017) SoCC HDR Research Competition - 2nd Prize School of Computing and Communication, FEIT, UTS May 2017 Prize: $200 cash and $2500 travel fund
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2016-2019) 4-year PhD full scholarship granted by University of Technology Sydney. University of Technology Sydney Aug 2016
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2015) Toshiba Master Engineering Scholarship Toshiba Sep 2015
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2014, 2016) Kanden System Solution Scholarship Kanden System Solution Aug 2014
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2013) e-Silicon Scholarship e-Silicon Corporation Nov 2013
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2013) Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Scholarship Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Sep 2013
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2013) Kanden Osaka full Internship Kanden System Solution Aug 2013
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      (2012) Datalogic Scanning Scholarship - Dec 2012
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2011) American Chambers of Commerce Scholarship AmCham Dec 2011
    • Awarded to Kha Vo
      (2011) Intel Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance Intel Sep 2011