Gary Phua Hwee Leng
Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

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 trajectory simulator
Independent Electron and Neutron flight simulator with interactive 3D playback and documented physics.
3D-printed Hungry Hippo fairing
Physical model of Neutron's opening fairing, built to explore its deployment mechanism.
Rocket Lab
