Tong He
Co-author of the XGBoost R package; committer on DGL, GluonCV and Apache MXNet; former AWS applied scientist
Tong He is a committer on the open-source projects Deep Graph Library (DGL), GluonCV, Apache MXNet and XGBoost, and created or maintained several R packages on CRAN, including xgboost; the XGBoost R package's DESCRIPTION file lists Tong He as an author alongside Tianqi Chen. From 2018, Tong He worked as a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services, with research interests in computer vision and machine learning. Tong He's homepage notes joining a quantitative fund in September 2025.132
Work
XGBoost R package (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed with the "aut" (author) role in the R package's DESCRIPTION file, and named on Tong He's homepage as a creator or maintainer of the xgboost package on CRAN and a committer on XGBoost.314
Deep Graph Library, GluonCV and Apache MXNet (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Committer on Deep Graph Library (DGL), GluonCV and Apache MXNet, per Tong He's homepage; the GitHub profile pins dmlc/dgl, dmlc/xgboost, apache/mxnet and dmlc/gluon-cv.125
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Senior Applied Scientist (from 2018), Amazon Web Services1
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