Yen Hong

Machine Learning Engineer at Grab, working on ETA and pricing models. Passionate about cool algorithms and building real-world systems.

I graduated from MMU in CS where I also did research at the ViPr Lab for my final-year project on aesthetic image cropping, supervised by Dr. Wong Lai Kuan. This work was published in the MIPI Workshop at ICCV.

Beyond academia, I've completed two machine learning-focused internships. I worked as a Data Scientist Intern at MoneyLion, and later as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Grab.

I enjoy coding competitively and building cool side projects. Always open to discussing ML, tech, or collaboration opportunities.

News

JAN 2026

Joined Grab as an MLE. Solving impactful problems with cool solutions!

OCT 2025

Attended ICCV 2025 at Honolulu. Had a great time there!

AUG 2025

Attended OxML 2025 at Oxford. Read about my experience here.

Blogs

Optimizing Heuristic Ranker

How I overkilled a problem with Constrained BO and LLM as a simulator.

One week in the Aloha State 🌴

So, I somehow ended up in Hawaii for a week.

My two weeks in the UK 🇬🇧

The UK, told in thousands of words.

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