Singapore
Self-driven individual with a hunger for knowledge and persistence in practice. As an aspiring materials researcher/engineer, I recognise the importance of interdisciplinary learning and maintain a well-balanced variety of interests spanning scientific research, photography, and coding, as well as various sports including mountain biking, basketball, and badminton. I strongly believe that failure is a catalyst for growth, and am unafraid of embarking on new endeavours in the pursuit of knowledge.
Attached to STMicroelectronics under the MOE ETPS programme. Learned about complete supply-chain operations within the company. Gained exposure to relevant technologies used in IC design, manufacturing, quality control and product sorting.
Attached to IHPC under the A*STAR JC Science Award. Shadowed a mentor to better understand ongoing projects. Gained exposure to the field of quantum chemical energetics and simulations using computational softwares.
Attached to the Cybersecurity Department of DSTA under the Research@YDSP programme. Investigated the re-training of a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model within the cybersecurity domain using web-scraped data. Learned about the fundamentals of supervised machine learning as well as the importance of data cleanliness and volume in model training. Honed my skills in Python scripting. Delivered a project report and infographic.
Shadowed an SJI alumnus, Dr Png Zhuang Mao to investigate post-polymerisation diversification via the inverse electron demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) reaction. Learned about various chemical reactions, characterisation techniques, and advanced instrumentation within the wet labs. Experienced firsthand real-world research workflows, from project planning to data collection.