experiences
a timeline of my work, academic, and co-curricular experiences.incoming quant trader intern
optiver
→incoming quant trader @ optiver for summer 2026
hftprobabilitystatisticsoptions theorymathalgorithm engineer intern
tiktok pte. ltd.
global e-commerce team
→designing multimodal ai systems on a global scale for TikTok shop
multimodalcomputer visionnlppythonpytorchpefthuggingfaceknowledge graphsragllmdockerdata scientist intern
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.
multimodalpythonpytorchhuggingfacetrlpeftqloraoptunaopencvgenairagapegcpdockergitml ops