Dr. Ts. Poo Kuan Hoong
Kuan Hoong
Principal Data Scientist at the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). Google Developer Expert in AI, AWS Community Builder, and a teacher of machine learning since 2001.
88 talks, 12,600+ people in the room
See every talk- AI and agents
- Machine learning
- Cloud
- Community and judging
About
I've spent more than 25 years working with data across industry, academia and the developer community. Before EPF I led data engineering and analytics at Roche, built Revenue Growth Management solutions for European markets at BAT, co-founded the AI consultancy Coqnitics, and taught for fifteen years at Multimedia University.
Outside the day job I run Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Malaysia, lead the AWS User Group AI/ML Kuala Lumpur, and help organise the Malaysia R User Group. I sit on university advisory and external examiner panels, and I speak at conferences, meetups and hackathons across the region.
- Google Developer Expert
- AI and Cloud AI, since 2018
- AWS Community Builder
- Machine Learning, since 2022
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
- Professional Technologist
- Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT)
- HRDC accredited trainer
- Corporate AI, Python and R programmes
Most recent talk
Building Agentic Applications with Google ADK and MCP Servers
GDG Melbourne Build with AI, Melbourne VIC, Australia. Jul 2026, 45 attendees.
Agentic AI is moving beyond simple chatbots into systems that can reason, use tools, retrieve context, and take meaningful actions. In this session, Kuan Hoong Poo will explore how to build agentic applications using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and connect them to official Google MCP Servers.
All talks and slidesWriting
All posts- Tutorial: Build a Manufacturing Procurement Multi-Agent System with Google ADK 2 GraphsJul 2026, Tutorial
- Spec-Driven Development vs Vibe Coding: Why Kiro Bets on Writing It DownJun 2026, Generative AI
- Fine-Tuning Gemma 2B on PubMedQA: Building a Medical Q&A Assistant with LoRA, Keras Kinetic, and TPUApr 2026, Generative AI
- Building a Science Simulator Hub with Google AI Studio, Google Antigravity and Gemini 3Dec 2025, Generative AI
- Connect to Google Colab Server in VS Code IDE with Colab ExtensionNov 2025, Tutorial
Communities I run
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Malaysia
Founder and organiser. 30,000+ members.
AWS User Group AI/ML Kuala Lumpur
User group leader. Since Nov 2025.
Malaysia R User Group
Organiser. Annual confeRence and meetups.
Planning an event or a team workshop?
I give talks and run hands-on sessions on generative AI, agents, machine learning, and R. The quickest way to reach me is a message on LinkedIn.