Cheng Soon Ong

Cheng Soon Ong is the science director at the Technology Research Unit in CSIRO. He works on extending machine learning methods and enabling new approaches to scientific discovery, and has led programs of research including foundational machine learning in science and purpose driven machine learning applications at CSIRO. He supervises and mentors many junior scientists, collaborates with scientists on problems in genomics and astronomy, advocates for open science, and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian National University. He is co-author of the textbook Mathematics for Machine Learning, and his career has spanned multiple roles in Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia.