Education
Imperial College London
Oct. 2023 - June 2026 (Expected)BEng Joint Mathematics and Computer Science
London, England
Running grade: First Class Honours
Grades:
- First year: First Class Honours
Overseas Family School
Aug. 2020 - May 2022International Baccalaureate Diploma
Singapore
Total Score: 44/45 – Ranked top 1.6% worldwide
Sole student to take 4 higher level subjects out of cohort of 250+ students
IB components:
- Mathematics HL: 7 / 7
- Physics HL: 7 / 7
- Computer Science HL: 7 / 7
- Economics HL: 7 / 7
- English SL: 7 / 7
- Spanish Ab Initio: 6 / 7
- Extended Essay in Computer Science: A / A
Work Experience
Software Engineer Intern
Aug. 2024 - Present · 2 mosStealth
San Francisco, United States (Remote)
Working with Jeff Wilson, 2 time Y Combinator Alum, former PostDoc researcher & Fellow at Harvard and former Professor/Dean.
Investment and Technology Intern
July 2023 - September 2023 · 3 mosTristar Investment Management
Singapore
Software Engineer Intern
April 2023 - May 2023 · 2 mosCampus.ai
Singapore
Projects
AArch64 Emulator and Assembler
2024Personal Project
Developed an emulator and assembler for AArch64 in C to run on a Raspberry Pi. Created a script to control an LED via GPIO in assembly.
Technologies: C, Assembly, Raspberry Pi, Git
View on GitHubTerra aim - Runner up at ICHack 2024
2024Hackathon Project
Runner Up (600+ entrants) - ICHack 24 (Highest placing first year undergraduate for chosen category)
Developed a prototype weapons aim training system integrating health metrics and performance feedback. Used ESP32 with gyroscopic sensors, OpenCV, and Unity for target tracking and visualization. Implemented data analysis with Flask and SQL, incorporating Terra API for health metrics.
Technologies: Python, Unity, Flask, OpenCV, SQL, ESP32, Git
Investigation into the Inception-v1 CNN architecture
2022Research Project
Developed 200+ different test configurations of the inception-v1 module to optimize for training time and accuracy. Tested hundreds of additional configurations of subsampling stride and number of unique convolutions per module. Based on GoogLeNet network and "Going Deeper With Convolutions" by Szegedy et. al.
Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, Keras, CUDA, CNNs
Neural Style Transfer upon VGG19
2019Research Project
Developed an implementation of Neural Style Transfer, based on the paper "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" by Gatys et. al. Implementation was made using the VGG19 network, developed by the Visual Geometry Group at Oxford. Included total variation loss in the implementation.
Invited by professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore to participate in research.
Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, Keras, CUDA, CNNs
View on GitHubVolunteering & Societies
[craft]
Jun 2024 - Present · 4 mosCo-Founder and Co-Lead
London, England
Member of [craft], a student initiative sponsored by Entrepreneur First and affiliated with [socratica] at U Waterloo and [scale down] at Cambridge University. We run weekly events to inspire students to pursue passion projects and showcase interests. Organized a major event at Entrepreneur First headquarters, attracting over 200 students from Cambridge, Oxford, and Imperial College London.
Beta Sigma Club
Feb 2024 - Present · 8 mosMember
London, England
Selected member of Beta Sigma Society, supporting students aspiring to pursue careers in quantitative finance. Sponsored by top firms including Jane Street, Optiver, Flow Traders, Jump Trading, and IMC Trading. Invited to participate in workshops with Optiver.
DoCSoc
May 2024 - Present · 5 mosSponsor Liaison and Industrial Events Coordinator
London, England
Elected by students to liaise with sponsors for the highest funded student society in Europe. Collaborating with top companies in tech and finance. Responsible for coordinating sponsorship for ICHack 25, the consecutively largest student hackathon in Europe.
Leaders of Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP)
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 1 moHead of Backend Web Development Team
Singapore
Designed and set up a backend database and login system for the LEAP initiative website. Added community communication features and contribution options. Assisted front end development team with UI/UX tweaks.
Achievements & Awards
UKMT Senior Maths Challenge and Intermediate Maths Challenge - Gold (2021, 2020 respectively)
Ranked top 1% in Singapore for REACH assessments in Science (2019)
Selected member of Quant society – Beta Sigma (2024)
4 Principal's awards - Overseas Family School (2019 - 2022)
Founder of AI education initiative and head of Machine Learning and AI society (High School)
Rank 1 score in high school received on personal project assessments on Neural Style Transfer. Invited by professors at the National University of Singapore to participate in research as a grade 9 student.
Highest score in High School for IB Extended Essay in Computer Science, developed on Inception-v1 investigations.