Ton Ngo
Senior Software Developer, IBM

Ton Ngo is a senior software developer in the IBM Cognitive OpenTech Group at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab. Previously, he was with the IBM Research Lab at Yorktown and Almaden. He’s been active in the open source community for four years and is working on TensorFlow and deep learning. He was a core contributor in OpenStack for Magnum and Heat-Translator, focusing on the networking and storage support for container orchestrator such as Kubernetes. Ton frequently gives talks and programming tutorials on TensorFlow in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York and at OpenStack Summits worldwide. He has published papers on a wide range of subjects.

Sessions

11:50am–12:30pm Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Location: Grand Ballroom A/B

Building deep learning applications using TensorFlow to combat schistosomiasis

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Zac Yung-Chun Liu (Stanford University), Andy Chamberlin (Stanford University), Susanne Sokolow (Stanford University | UC Santa Barbara), Giulio De Leo (Stanford University), Ton Ngo (IBM)

Schistosomiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. Zac Yung-Chun Liu, Andy Chamberlin, Susanne Sokolow, Giulio De Leo, and Ton Ngo detail how to build and deploy deep learning applications to detect disease transmission hotspots, make interventions more efficient and scalable, and help governments and stakeholders make data-driven decisions. Read more.