All projects
All the stuff I've done in one place, for completeness. The CV has the trimmed and formal version.
AI safety
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Feb – May 2026
Towards Understanding LLM Generalization through Fine-tuning
SPAR · ICML 2026 workshop paper
How finetuning on a small, narrow set of factual documents affects the actions a model takes on downstream tasks. First author on the paper, which was presented at an ICML 2026 workshop. Done as part of SPAR with mentors now at Redwood Research (Keshav Shenoy) and Anthropic (Emil Ryd).
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Aug – Sep 2026
Agent swarm evaluation of Android cyber capabilities
IMDA · Singapore AI Safety Institute*
Designed and built a swarm-based Inspect evaluation of frontier models' cyber capabilities against Android targets. Worked in IMDA's Biz-Tech group, which works closely with the Singapore AI Safety Institute. Also presented key takeaways from the HuggingFace–OpenAI and other loss-of-control incidents to decision makers.
- Jan 2025 – present
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Jan 2026
Alignment Research Bootcamp Oxford (ARBOx)
Oxford
Two-week technical bootcamp working through the ARENA curriculum. Work included building GPT-2 from scratch, reinforcement learning and mechanistic interpretability.
Earlier research
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Jan – Mar 2024
Image embeddings from small datasets
DSO National Laboratories · Research intern
Researched and implemented a method for generating image embeddings from small datasets, building a documented Python codebase from scratch.
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Jun 2020 – Jun 2021
Dye-sensitised solar cells
National Institute of Education · Research intern
Investigated dye-sensitised solar cells with Prof. Tsao Hoi Nok. Delivered a poster and contributed to a published research paper.
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Oct – Dec 2018
Aerial vehicle classification
DSTA · Research intern
Built a computer vision model to detect and classify vehicles in aerial imagery; one of four projects selected to present on stage at the 2019 NUS High Research Congress.
Robotics & engineering
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2026
Integrated Design Project robot — first place
Cambridge Engineering · Project and software lead
Built a competition robot from scratch in a six-person team and took first place across the year group. Led software and project management across the hardware, electrical and software sub-teams. Features include a simulator, test suite and visualiser.
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Jul – Sep 2025
Construction robot mapping system
Fabrica AI · Software engineering intern
Integrated a new LiDAR into a construction robot's mapping system in a Dockerised ROS 2 environment. Also created a schema to verify robot configuration changes. Worked in Python and C++.
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Apr – Sep 2024
Drone countermeasure systems
DSTA · Engineering intern
Developed a drone used for drone countermeasures. Upgraded the video transmission scheme, raising frame rate by 30% and cutting bandwidth by 75%. Carried out a network architecture migration and improved the ground control application. Worked in Java and Python.
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Mar 2022 – Nov 2023
F-16 aircraft technician
Republic of Singapore Air Force · National service
Serviced F-16s for daily training flights. Chosen as the Operational Airman of the Month (June 2023). Selected for several overseas deployments.
Other achievements
- 2026
- 2025
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2023
Operational Airman of the Month
Republic of Singapore Air Force
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2021
NUS High School Diploma, 4.9/5.0 GPA
Principal's List (top 5%)
- 2021
- 2020
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2018 – 19
Gold, Singapore Junior Physics and Chemistry Olympiads
Gold in both olympiads, two years running