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.
94 talks, 13,000+ people in the room
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- 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
Specs Over Vibes: The Agent Harness Behind Amazon Kiro
AWS Cloud and AI Day Kuala Lumpur · Developer Community Zone, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center. Nov 2026, 45 attendees.
A Developer Chats Theatre session on the agent harness that surrounds the model in Amazon Kiro. The model generates, while the harness constrains, remembers, routes and verifies: specs capture requirements, design and tasks, context carries guidelines and conventions, tasks are broken into small steps, and validation checks the result.
All talks and slidesWriting
All posts- Your Second Brain Should Maintain Itself: OKF, Gemini, and a Multi-Agent VaultSep 2026, Generative AI
- 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
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.