experience

a timeline of my work, academic, and co-curricular experiences.
  1. algorithm engineer intern

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    tiktok pte. ltd.

    global e-commerce team

    incoming intern at tiktok, designing machine learning pipelines for use on a global scale

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

    govtech singapore logo

    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