Summary
Cong Hoang is a Senior Applied Science Manager based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building ML and deep learning solutions, specializing in NLP, NLU, conversational AI, and generative agents powered by LLMs. He progressed through research and applied roles—from doctoral research at the University of Melbourne and internships at NAVER LABS and Carnegie Mellon to senior science leadership at Oracle—bridging cutting-edge research with production deployments. Cong has a track record of leading cross-functional teams to operationalize conversational and generative AI features in enterprise contexts, often translating academic advances into scalable products. His background spans international research institutes and startups, giving him both rigorous academic grounding and pragmatic, startup-style agility. An interesting thread through his career is consistent movement between research and product teams, enabling him to shepherd novel algorithms from prototype to customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience