Frank Ong
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Ong is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience delivering production-grade ML systems. At Roblox, he leads backend ML development for the homepage recommendation engine, leveraging deep expertise in scalable ML and engineering leadership. He previously steered a ML team at a startup and contributed to Amazon's Visual Search, while also conducting MRI-focused research at Stanford and Subtle Medical, reflecting a strong cross-domain track record in theory and applied ML. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on the BART toolbox for computational MRI, adding batch SVT functionality and refining SVD and matrix operations—evidence of a solid grounding in numerical methods and linear algebra. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley and carried out PhD-level research in MRI, illustrating a consistent trajectory that blends academic rigor with industry impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
c1710
lapacke10
c1110
numerical-methods10
lapack10
linear-algebra10
mri7
deep-learning3
deep-learning-ai3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mrirecon/bart
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
BART: Toolbox for Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 46 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Frank contributed to the `BART` toolbox, specifically by adding and modifying functions related to LAPACK, a numerical linear algebra library. They added a function for batch singular value thresholding and modified existing functions for singular value decomposition and matrix multiplication. These changes involved code modifications within the `src/num` directory and `src/lowrank` directory and indicate an understanding of numerical methods and linear algebra.
magneticresonancedeep-learningbart-toolboxcompressed-sensing
mikgroup/mridata
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Source code for the new mridata.org
Contributions:212 commits, 9 PRs, 111 pushes in 3 years 8 months
mridata
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