Senior Manager, Data Science at Walmart Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Trulia
Senior Data Scientist
July 2012 to March 2015
San Francisco Bay Area
Trulia
Data Science Manager and Principal Data/Applied Scientist
March 2015 to January 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Northrop Grumman Information Systems
Data Scientist/System Engineer
March 2010 to August 2012
Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Graduate Student Researcher
September 2003 to December 2009
Los Angeles, CA
Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Teaching Assistant
September 2006 to June 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Walmart Labs
Senior Manager, Data Science
San Francisco Bay Area
What company does Joseph Kong work for?
Joseph Kong works for Trulia
What is Joseph Kong's role at Trulia?
Joseph Kong is Senior Data Scientist
What industry does Joseph Kong work in?
Joseph Kong works in the Internet industry.
Who are Joseph Kong's colleagues?
Joseph Kong's colleagues are Sandeep Mandada, Eugene Hourany, Souvik Sen, Chanikya Mandapati, Prajwal KeshavaReddy, Kelley Koch, Rajanikanth Beesabathini, Daniel Blankenship, Amit Panchabhai, and Gautam Chandra
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Senior Data Scientist @ Trulia From July 2012 to March 2015 (2 years 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Science Manager and Principal Data/Applied Scientist @ Trulia http://www.trulia.com/blog/tech/recommender-engine/http://www.trulia.com/blog/tech/a-new-way-to-search/http://www.trulia.com/blog/tech/organizing-photo-collections-for-visual-browsing/http://www.trulia.com/blog/tech/docker-data-science-at-trulia/ From March 2015 to January 2019 (3 years 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Scientist/System Engineer @ Northrop Grumman Information Systems • Designed, developed and deployed a large-scale data-driven machine learning based cyber intrusion detection systems with benchmarked and quantifiably superior malware detection performance• Developed MapReduce algorithm for intrusion data preprocessing on Hadoop cluster using hundreds of AWS EC2 instances• Invented social network based square counting method for user rating predictions in recommender systems• Empirical results showed that the method is fast, parallelizable and scalable to massive datasets• Benchmarked to be one of the most accurate single method for rating prediction in recommender system • Implementation in C++/OpenMP with machine learned classifier built in R From March 2010 to August 2012 (2 years 6 months) Graduate Student Researcher @ Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA • Analyzed large-scale Twitter dataset and characterized re-tweet information cascades in Twitter• Data mined and modeled the evolution of 20+ million webpages and developed method for link prediction • Developed a system prototype for filtering email spam by leveraging the structure of social email networks• Performed modeling and simulation to characterize fault tolerance of peer-to-peer networks From September 2003 to December 2009 (6 years 4 months) Los Angeles, CATeaching Assistant @ Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA • Gave lectures and held recitations for courses on probability, stochastic processes and circuits• Received superior student reviews on my excellent teaching and presentation skills From September 2006 to June 2007 (10 months) Los Angeles, CASenior Manager, Data Science @ Walmart Labs (Hiring!) Building a new Data Science team focused on vertical search on walmart.com (e.g. search within Fashion, Home, etc). Come join us! San Francisco Bay Area
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
3 year(s), 3 month(s)
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