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Chung Sciang

Summary

Accomplished data science and engineering leader with a strong history of team building and management. Demonstrated success in overseeing complete machine learning projects for a variety of purposes, such as targeted marketing, personalized recommendations, search ranking, credit scoring, and CTR prediction. Proficient in information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), and the creation of search engines and music recommendation systems for the easy payment, ad tech, and music streaming sectors.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Team Manager

NHN
03.2018 - Current

BI Team Leader (Feb 2024 – Present)

  • Led the development of Customer 360, consolidating comprehensive behavioral data and all customer-related information.
  • Conducted PoC for text-to-SQL using LLMs to enhance data query efficiency

Modeling Team Leader (Mar 2018 - 2024 Jan)

  • led end-to-end data science projects:Personalized and repeat purchase recommendations, search relevance (Payco)
    Targeted marketing (CRM) and alternative credit scoring (Payco)
    Personalized recommendations (FashionGo)
  • Managed projects:CTR prediction modeling
    Interest-based modeling from app data (semi-supervised learning)
    Invalid click handling for apps

Team Leader

NHN Bugs
12.2012 - 03.2018

Data Intelligence Team lead(2012-2018)

  • Experienced leader in search and recommendation product management
  • Developed and managed search and recommendation engines
  • Applied deep learning for automatic music mood classification
  • Conducted user listening preference clustering for targeted recommendations

Education

M.S. - Computer Science

Yonsei University
08.2010

B.S. - Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Kyungpook National University
02.2001

Skills

  • Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
  • Search & Recommendation Systems
  • Data Engineering , Data Warehouse
  • Team Management , Agile Methodology
  • Python, Java, Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Impala, Hive, Tensorflow, XGBoost, LightGBM

Projects

  • Personalized Coupon Recommendation (Payco): Led end-to-end implementation, boosting user engagement and revenue through personalized recommendations and A/B testing.
  • Coupon Ad Targeting Models: Developed uplift modeling and utilized causal inference to optimize targeting for Payco's coupon ads.
  • Alternative Credit Scoring Model: Created advanced credit assessment models, surpassing benchmark metrics for improved credit evaluation.
  • Coupon Ad Learn to Rank Project: Applied Learn to Rank algorithms for coupon ad ranking, enhancing the relevance and effectiveness of ad placements.
  • Music Mood Classification (Bugs Music): Applied deep learning for automatic mood classification and playlist generation.
  • Search Learn to rank PoC with Machine Learning, Deep Learning: Led proof-of-concept initiatives to enhance search results using machine learning and deep learning models.

Timeline

Team Manager

NHN
03.2018 - Current

Team Leader

NHN Bugs
12.2012 - 03.2018

B.S. - Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Kyungpook National University

M.S. - Computer Science

Yonsei University
Chung Sciang