Uthaipon Tantipongpipat

Uthaipon (Tao) Tantipongpipat is a Lead Data Scientist at Agoda since January 2023, previously serving as a Machine Learning Researcher at Twitter from June 2020 to January 2023, where Tao led a significant audit on algorithmic bias in image cropping, culminating in an impactful academic publication and extensive media coverage. Earlier experience includes a Graduate Research Assistant position at Georgia Institute of Technology (August 2016 - May 2020), where Tao worked on projects such as differentially private synthetic data generation and multi-criteria optimization for fair dimensionality reduction. A research internship at Microsoft in 2019 involved implementing privacy guarantees in NLP models and contributing to a paper published at NeurIPS. Tao's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from Georgia Institute of Technology, a study abroad program at University of Oxford, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from University of Richmond.