Ying Zhe (George) Loh

Tinkerer, Computational Social Scientist at heart

Singapore

About

Experience

  • KLASS (Full-time · 3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Innovation Specialist (AI)
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Conducted applied research in psychometrics, game theory neuroscience to develop behavioural analytics approaches for AI-enabled public safety systems; co-authored deception research (under review). Led product development for Kognigate, an AI interview assistant integrating real-time speech-to-text streaming with LLM-based requirement matching. Built AI proof-of-concepts and advised leadership on emerging technologies, translating research into product concepts and captured IP.

    • Software Engineer (Speech Analytics)
      May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Co-developed a full stack Speech-to-Text (STT) web application, using git for version control. Interacted with backend system via ZeroMQ for message queues, flask for API interaction. Leveraged Docker and Docker Compose for microservices management optimizing the application's scalability and maintainability throughout its development lifecycle. Devised and refined annotation strategy based on proprietary methods to calculate the Diarisation Error Rate of ASR-aligned speaker diarisation models against ground truth labels.

  • Behavioural Data Scientist/Member of Technical Staff at DSO National Laboratories
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Machine Learning, Deep Learning (NLP - transformer models), Human-in-the-loop (Semi-supervised etc)

  • Mixed Methods Researcher at ZK Analytics
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 · 5 mos

  • Political Risks Analysis Intern (Asia Pacific) at AKE International
    Dec 2019 - Mar 2020 · 4 mos

  • Global Risk Analysis Intern (Asia Pacific) at Control Risks
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2019 · 4 mos