National University of Singapore

School of Computing

BSc. in Business Analytics with Economics (Double Major)

• University Scholars Programme
• NUS Global Merit Scholar
• Cumulative GPA: 4.83 / 5.00
• Expected Graduation: May 2022

Relevant Coursework

• Prediction and Causal Identification
• Random Number Generation and Simulation
• Optimisation, Prediction and Classification Models
• Regression Analysis
• Time Series Forecasting
• Fraud Analysis
• Financial Risk Analysis
• Pricing and Competition Decisions
• Data Management and Visualisation
• Probability and Statistics
• Calculus & Linear Algebra
• Programming Methodology I & II
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Application Systems Development
• Microeconomic & Macroeconomic Analysis

Awards & Achievements

Aug 18 - Present

Singapore

Korea University

International Winter Campus

Participated in an academic and cultural immersion programme at Korea University's winter campus. Learnt core marketing principles and applied these principles to draft a marketing plan to introduce a new product to the South Korean market.

Relevant Coursework

• Introduction to Marketing

Dec 19 - Jan 20

South Korea

WorldQuant

Quantitative Research Intern (Returning in Aug 2020)

• Develop scripts to visualise and evaluate alpha signal performance
• Collaborate with Quantitative Researchers and Portfolio Managers to generate alpha to predict movements of worldwide financial markets from news data
• Review and experiment ideas from academic finance literature

Dec 19,

Aug 20 - Present

Singapore

GIC Private Limited

Data Science Intern (GIP)

Technology Group | Business Partnership and Solutions (Real Estate)

• Researched, proposed, and developed a deterministic algorithm to extract information from floor plans, e.g. floor area of each room, location of doors and rooms within a floor plan, room connectivity, to retrieve information not easily scraped from property websites
• Created a simple graphical user interface (GUI) to demonstrate the floor plan information extraction algorithm to business partners
• Developed a regression model using data retrieved from floor plans to estimate the rental prices of residential units
• Proposed and estimated a demand-supply simultaneous equation model to forecast real rental growth in the UK office market and benchmarked this model against standard time series forecasting models, e.g. random walk, AR(1)
• Performed scenario analysis to quantify the range of possible real rental growth outcomes given different economic forecasts, e.g. different levels of GDP growth, employment growth

May 20 - Jul 20

Singapore

National University of Singapore

Teaching Assistant for CS2040: Data Structures & Algorithms

School of Computing

• Conduct tutorial sessions and provide consultations for a class of 24 students

Jan 20 - May 20

Singapore

Teaching Assistant for CS1010S: Programming Methodology I

School of Computing

• Conduct tutorial sessions, grade assignments and practicals, and provide consultations for classes of 10-12 students
• Run simulations as Contest IC for 2048 Solver, a contest where students create an automatic solver for the 2048 game

Aug 19 - May 20

Singapore

Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)

Business Analytics Intern

Corporate Strategy and Insights Division

• Built a deep learning text classifier application using Tensorflow and Keras to categorise emails into different categories and direct them to relevant tax officers
• Researched, tested and evaluated various automated machine learning softwares (DataRobot, H2O Driverless AI, etc.) for adoption by IRAS
• Performed python package evaluation for automated machine learning packages auto-sklearn and TPOT, as well as feature engineering package Featuretools
• Built a web scraper to collate SVY21 coordinates of malls in Singapore
• Prepped and tested data for an internal hackathon organised by CSID

May 19 - Aug 19

Singapore

Business Analytics Intern

Property Tax Department - Data Analytics Research Team (DART)

• Performed hedonic regression analysis in R to predict the valuation of shopping malls in Singapore
• Optimised performance checking for Property Tax Department managers by creating interactive dashboards on PowerBI for various teams

Dec 19

Singapore

NUS Fintech Society

Member

Machine Learning Team

• Attend weekly meetings, workshops and talks under the NUS Fintech Society to enhance existing knowledge and skills on machine learning
• Work on machine learning projects with datasets from Kaggle

Jan 19 - Dec 19

Singapore

USC Freshmen Orientation Programme

Finance Director

• Heading a team to oversee budgeting and expenditure in all 5 events under USC's Freshmen Orientation Programme
• Liaising with USP and NUS Administrative Staff and event directors to set appropriate budgets for each event
• Streamlining the financial process by automating and syncing Excel Spreadsheets that allow for minimal manual input

Dec 18 - Sep 19

Singapore

CARE Singapore Data Analytics Project

Team Leader

• Led a team of 4 to generate insights based on data collected by CARE Singapore to help improve their Uth Power! Programme
• Generated visualisations, posters and reports to help CARE staff better present their findings to the government, their funders, and potential sponsors.

Dec 18 - May 19

Singapore

NUS Enactus

Core Team Member

Project Bridge

• Prototyped an online healthcare-specific dialect course catered to medical practitioners and students, with the aim of bridging the language barrier between elderly and healthcare practitioners in Singapore
• Liaise with external beneficiaries to develop core curriculum for online course

Aug 18 - Jun 19

Singapore