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Gary loves Rocket Lab

Built for Rocket Lab

Gary Phua beside a rover exhibit

I’m Gary, a data scientist from Singapore. I would like to contribute to humanity by furthering space technologies and work in the space industry. Like Rocket Lab’s mission, I hope to further develop space technologies to make life better for us here on Earth.

My dream is to work for Rocket Lab, and I will be headed to New Zealand in late September to try to achieve it.

I have worked hard to develop myself and learn new skills relevant to the industry, such as the rocket trajectory simulator on this page and the 3D-printed version of the Hungry Hippo fairing which I will bring to New Zealand.

If you are in the space industry, I would love to connect when I head over to New Zealand!

Projects I Built

Rocket Trajectory Simulator

Model Simulator for Rocket Trajectories

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3D Printed Hungry Hippo

Working prototype with opening fairing and movable canards.

Curriculum vitae

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Gary Phua Hwee Leng

Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

Rocket Lab

Experience

DBS Bank

Assistant Vice President • Data Scientist • Consumer Banking Group

June 2022 — Present

  • Conducted first Gen AI Pilot for automating marketing messages in DBS CBG. Responsible for prompt engineering personalised messages and liaising with product stakeholders and the tech team
  • Developed customer lookalike model that determines customer onboarding journeys for the DBS digibank app that was deployed in production
  • Implemented first Gen AI feedback reviewer in DBS CBG. Gen AI model reads and categorises customer feedback automatically, in place of a laborious manual process
  • Developed end-to-end AI/ML model pipelines for customer acquisition and retention involving various portfolios including deposit, retirement, mortgage and remittance
  • Built first Gen AI text to chart poc in DBS CBG. Model is able to create an interactive plotly chart to answer relevant user queries on DBS data within a secured environment
  • Performed various data analytics tasks including customer profiling for app usage and customer transaction analysis for the digital bank war room
  • Led team training for Python and data science. Designed training material from scratch, conducted lessons, and set assignments for various teams

Talo Labs

Machine Learning Engineer • Biotechnology

July 2021 — May 2022

  • Computationally generated de novo drugs using a reinforcement learning model optimised for binding
  • Increased stability of RNA sequences using reinforcement learning by minimising free energy
  • Predicted protein ligand binding properties using a transformer model to be used for virtual screening
  • Implemented a graph neural network model for drug toxicity prediction to be used for virtual screening

Independent projects

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia coast

Ready to move.

I’m based in Singapore and ready to relocate to New Zealand.

I will be attending the 2026 New Zealand Aerospace Summit.

I will be in New Zealand from 26/9/2026 to 4/10/2026, drop me a message to connect!

Māhia, New Zealand · Photograph by Rocket Lab