Philip is a data scientist in Malaysia with experience in applied microeconometrics, machine learning and technical writing. He occasionally contributes to open-source projects such as the conda-forge software distribution project. He is package maintainer of the R package bnmr and an author of pmdplyr, and volunteers for PyData Kuala Lumpur.

Education

University of Wollongong | Wollongong, NSW
Bachelor of Commerce (Hons), Economics | 2017

University of Wollongong | Wollongong, NSW
Bachelor of Commerce (Dean’s Scholar), Economics | 2014-2016

Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology | Tanjung Bungah, Penang
Diploma in Business Studies, Accounting | 2012-2014

Experience

Penang Institute | Visiting Data Scientist, Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme | January 2023 - present

CIMB Bank Berhad | Manager, Regional Advanced Risk Modelling, Group Risk | March 2020 - May 2022

Skymind AI Berhad | Technical Writer | Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

GRID Inc. | Data Scientist Intern | May 2019 - Aug 2019

The Center of Applied Data Science | Data Scientist Associate | Jul 2018 - May 2019

Penang Institute | Research Assistant | Dec 2015 - Jan 2016, Aug 2016 - Jun 2017