experiences

a timeline of my work, academic, and co-curricular experiences.
  1. incoming quant trader intern

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    optiver

    incoming quant trader @ optiver for summer 2026

    hft
    probability
    statistics
    options theory
    math
  2. algorithm engineer intern

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    tiktok pte. ltd.

    global e-commerce team

    designing multimodal ai systems on a global scale for TikTok shop

    multimodal
    computer vision
    nlp
    python
    pytorch
    peft
    huggingface
    knowledge graphs
    rag
    llm
    docker
  3. data scientist intern

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    govtech singapore

    ai practice, multimodal ai division

    delivered 6 end-to-end projects within 3 months, including scalable deployment of models and apps

    notable highlights:

    Meowgistry: a comprehensive cat-face detection and recognition pipeline for stray cat monitoring and cataloguing, with automatic classification of breed, coat pattern, gender, sterilisation status, etc

    EdgeVLM: an abuse-detection system for healthcare settings, using finetuned Gemma3n and Moondream2 models for lightweight deployment on edge devices

    Exam Question Digitisation & Search Pipeline: multimodal vector stores and question generators for digitisation and search for all exam questions in Singapore - leveraging SiglipV2, ColQwen2.5, ape.

    multimodal
    python
    pytorch
    huggingface
    trl
    peft
    qlora
    optuna
    opencv
    genai
    rag
    ape
    gcp
    docker
    git
    ml ops