William Tong

William Tong is a Lead Data Scientist at Canva since June 2023, with extensive experience in data science roles across various industries. Prior positions include Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services from March 2022 to May 2023 and Data Science Lead at REA Group from April 2020 to March 2022, where significant contributions were made to the Automated Valuation Model for property price estimation. At Lorica Health, from May 2018 to April 2020, key achievements included enhancing a classification model's precision and developing advanced deep learning frameworks for fraud detection in health insurance claims. William's earlier experience as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation focused on health analytics, including the development of clinical decision support tools. Academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sydney and ongoing studies in computer science and medical statistics. Proficiencies include R, SQL, and AWS.