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General Information

Full Name Hans Jarett J. Ong
Date of Birth 19th April 1997
Email [email protected]
Email (NAIST) [email protected]
Mobile (PH) (+63) 915-595-5269
Mobile (JP) (+81) 080-4777-9406

Education

  • 2023 - 2026
    (Expected)
    D.Sc., Information Science
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2022 - 2023
    M.Eng., Artificial Intelligence (Partial Completion)
    University of the Philippines, Diliman
  • 2014 - 2019
    B.S., Physics (Graduated Cum Laude)
    Ateneo de Manila University

Experience

  • 2024 - Present
    Research Collaborator
    Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
    • Worked on a project titled "Few-shot Differentiable Bayesian Causal Discovery with Unknown Interventions"
    • Delivered a presentation summarizing the project’s outcomes and potential impact to a panel of experts
  • 2023 - Present
    Research Collaborator
    Mobility Fundamentals Mathematics Research by Kyoto University & Toyota Motor Corporation
    • Conducted research in causality, focusing on causal discovery
    • Authored one preprint currently under review for publication
    • Presented findings at International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2024 with proceedings published
  • 2022 - 2023
    Senior Data Scientist
    Bank of the Philippine Islands
    • Developed an investment propensity model that enhanced campaign targeting, resulting in a notable 22% increase in assets under management (AUM) invested
    • Designed a customer lifetime value (CLV) metric that captured both current and potential customer value
    • Engineered a recommender system that uses customer profiles, life stage, and financial needs to recommend tailored investment funds
  • 2019 - 2022
    Data Scientist
    Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group R&D)
    • Created reusable data analysis tools automating data cleaning, feature selection, feature engineering, analysis, and report generation
    • Developed internal SQL and report generation packages (in Python) complete with documentation and unit testing
    • Conducted analyses and developed models for several health focus areas
  • 2016 - 2019
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Manila Observatory Remote Sensing Group
    • Characterized aerosols using AERONET sun photometer optical measurements
    • Calibrated and validated MISR and MODIS satellite data using sun photometer measurements

Scholarships and Grants

  • 2023 - 2026
    Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship
    Japanese Government Scholarship
  • 2016
    Student Travel Grant
    American Geophysical Union
  • 2014 - 2019
    Director's List Scholarship
    Ateneo de Manila University