Software Engineer

Developed applications for various clients, like researchers, doctors, patients etc. Also worked on the architecture design of applications for deployments in clinical settings. Was the sole React Native developer and established standards for the rollouts of test versions of our apps to our various stakeholders :-)

• Typescript
• React
• React Native
• Redux
• Django
• AWS

Data Science Associate

Explored data science techniques (data analysis, pre-processing, feature generation etc.) and applied them with real patient data to predict patient outcomes which was really cool. Built on and iterated on many models and learnt the tradeoffs of tuning models in various ways, and how decisions are made with respect to final model choice. Learnt what a pain data collection and cleanup can be. Also took a bioinformatics course for fun and decided maybe bioinformatics was not for me...

• Python
• scikit-learn

Final Year Project Student

Came back to make up for the lack of time I spent here due to COVID. Also thought it would be cool to work on my FYP away from school. Spent many hours messing up my experiments though.

• Food science

Biotransformation Intern

Learnt a lot about the process of ideating on new food and beverage products, taking it from bench trials to pilot production. Spent a lot of time in the lab doing analysis on the prototypes we developed, and it was fun though stressful learning how to operate machines like the UHPLC. Had the best supervisors and colleagues who were always really kind and patient toward students. Unfortunately COVID lockdowns began full-swing one month into my internship so we leveraged the time spent at home to do analysis of market trends, consumer habits, and manufacturing costs, and read up on many papers. 10/10 for the experience - was fun working in a lab that I could eat in as part of "sensory evaluation".

• Food science

Bachelor's in Engineering (Bioengineering), with Honours

Came here because I wanted to learn about gene editing. Found out too late that this isn't what the course was about. Also that the course is no longer relevant in the market :')

International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)

Took part in this competition under the same lab, and got to present our work to many people during the giant jambouree Boston. Did a lot of cell culture this time. Started to learn coding around this time because I saw how others analysed their lab data and I wanted to do the same. Our work was included in this paper. We also had a website.

• CRISPR

Undergraduate Research on Campus (URECA)

Did this under Tan Meng How's lab because I wanted to do work related to gene editing. Learnt how to run experiments and write papers / posters under a really passionate research officer. Performed lots of PCR and gel cutting and I remember running to send my samples off for sequencing at the cutoff time many times. In retrospect, was pretty cool that I got to work in CRISPR research.

• CRISPR