All projects

All the stuff I've done in one place, for completeness. The CV has the trimmed and formal version.

AI safety

  • 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).

  • 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

    Cambridge AI Safety Hub

    Committee member · Alignment Fellowship · Alignment Desk

    Currently on the student committee. Previously completed the six-week Alignment Fellowship reading group and wrote two posts as part of the Alignment Desk writing group.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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++.

  • 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.

  • 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

    Ranked 30th of 320 (Year 2)

    Cambridge Engineering · MEng Information Engineering

  • 2025

    Ranked 14th of 323 (Year 1)

    Cambridge Engineering · MEng Information Engineering

  • 2023

    Operational Airman of the Month

    Republic of Singapore Air Force

  • 2021

    NUS High School Diploma, 4.9/5.0 GPA

    Principal's List (top 5%)

  • 2021

    Silver, Asian Physics Olympiad

    33rd globally · 2nd in Singapore

  • 2020

    Gold, Singapore Physics Olympiad

    Top 28 nationally

  • 2018 – 19

    Gold, Singapore Junior Physics and Chemistry Olympiads

    Gold in both olympiads, two years running