I'm an interdisciplinary engineer and researcher with a strong foundation in electrical engineering and a growing focus on AI, NLP, and data-driven product development. I enjoy turning complex data and systems into practical ML models and robust hardware-software solutions, bridging the gap between research and real-world impact. I thrive in cross-disciplinary teams, contributing to public health projects, speech recognition pipelines, and hardware design. My curiosity drives me to explore new tools from PyTorch to Verilog, delivering solutions that combine rigorous experimentation with tangible outcomes.

PHUNG CHENG FEI

I'm an interdisciplinary engineer and researcher with a strong foundation in electrical engineering and a growing focus on AI, NLP, and data-driven product development. I enjoy turning complex data and systems into practical ML models and robust hardware-software solutions, bridging the gap between research and real-world impact. I thrive in cross-disciplinary teams, contributing to public health projects, speech recognition pipelines, and hardware design. My curiosity drives me to explore new tools from PyTorch to Verilog, delivering solutions that combine rigorous experimentation with tangible outcomes.

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I’m an interdisciplinary engineer and researcher with a strong foundation in electrical engineering and a growing focus on AI, NLP, and data-driven product development. I enjoy turning complex data and systems into practical ML models and robust hardware-software solutions, bridging the gap between research and real-world impact.

I thrive in cross-disciplinary teams, contributing to public health projects, speech recognition pipelines, and hardware design. My curiosity drives me to explore new tools from PyTorch to Verilog, delivering solutions that combine rigorous experimentation with tangible outcomes.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Advanced

Work Experience

Engineer at TransPerfect
January 1, 2023 - October 18, 2025
Worked with client’s automated speech recognition and inference MLOps pipeline; cleaned up language data corpus datasets.
Research Associate at National University of Singapore (NUS)
January 1, 2023 - Present
Public health project on government COVID-19 vaccination and nationwide lockdown response; built NLP datasets and fine-tuned LoRA+SVD and LoRD NLP models (MAMBA, NLHF, diffusion LM).
Engineer at FTDI
January 1, 2022 - October 18, 2025
Investigated STA failure reports on USB3 FT600 chip; USB power-delivery v3.0; Verilog code; involved in FT4232HAN chip tapeout for synthesis, STA timing closure, TetraMax ATPG/scan Tcl scripts.
Engineer at ADECCO
January 1, 2021 - October 18, 2025
Synthesis Tcl for TSMC 6nm design with Cadence Genus, PBA/GBA, MCMM, DVFS, POCV flow; investigated re-timing algorithms and related flows.
Research Engineer at ADSC
January 1, 2020 - October 18, 2025
Implemented AXI memory controller for storing CNN parameters; analyzed Intel SGX binary for protection against attacks.
Research Associate at NTU (Nanyang Technological University)
January 1, 2019 - October 18, 2025
Modified both Verilog and C driver code for full-duplex capability from existing PCIe framework; implemented on Altera DE4 and Xilinx VC707.
Engineer at SHARP
January 1, 2016 - October 18, 2025
Designed, verified and bring-up PCBA; RF/IF schematics and layout; worked on high-speed signal lines such as HDMI, LVDS.

Education

Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) at National University of Singapore (NUS)
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communications Engineering) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

Qualifications

Coursera: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025
NLP Specialization courses
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025
Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025
Recommender Systems with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025
Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025
Qiskit Global Summer School 2022
January 11, 2030 - October 18, 2025

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Education, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

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