Thong Le
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThong Le is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience combining deep academic research and large-scale production ML, currently advancing Autopilot at Tesla from Palo Alto. A PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Davis, his research develops statistical and algorithmic methods for genomics and disease, while his industry work spans realistic avatars, speech AI, and ads ranking at Meta. He bridges theoretical rigor—proving mathematical properties—with pragmatic engineering, optimizing model size, speed, and robustness for deployment. Known for tackling scale and modeling complexity, he has moved between research and product teams to deliver state-of-the-art systems in both academia and top-tier tech. An early background in algorithm design and computational biology informs a rare mix of domain expertise useful for ML problems grounded in real-world scientific data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Highest Honor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Highest Honor at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (19)
xla8
python8
neural-network8
pytorch7
machine-learning7
gpu7
deep-learning7
compiler6
cpp5
numpy5
gpu-acceleration3
tpu3
tensor3
autograd2
keras-tensorflow1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thong3le/blackbox-attack
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Blackbox attacks for deep neural network models
Contributions:73 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
neural-network
thong3le/leetcode
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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