Wesley A. Cheng 🏻

Wesley A. Cheng is an accomplished software engineer and data scientist, currently serving as Lead Data Scientist at Mastercard since December 2023, where efforts focus on the development of AI models for FinTech. Prior experience includes a position as Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm, developing a novel distributed chip design platform to enhance 5G chip performance from February 2020 to October 2021, and working as a Deep Learning Researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research, where research centered on deep learning NLP and Transformer-based generative LLMs for code synthesis from August 2021 to May 2022. Earlier roles encompassed a Junior Software Engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where a data warehouse for real-time web analytics was developed, and a Software Engineering Intern at Caulis, focusing on an anomaly detection engine for real-time bank fraud detection.