Education
class of 2028
Canadian International School, Singapore
I’m in the first year of the IB Diploma (2026 to 2028), taking HL Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches, HL Physics, HL Economics, SL Theatre, SL English Literature and French ab initio. Also AP Computer Science Principles. My MYP Personal Project, a one-movement symphony, was rated Excellent.
Research and writing
from October 2026
Learning what to prove
My independent research asks whether a learned model, cheap to run at each step, can choose what an automated theorem prover explores next. The evaluation framework is built, with proofs checked in Lean, and I’m testing its repeatability. There is no evidence yet from this work that a learned policy helps.
June 2026 to now
Modelling the Other
My study asks whether a frontier model predicting a named peer model uses evidence about that peer or a prior tied to who built it. I’m the sole author, advised by Sungjoo Ha and Min Lin. The design has been piloted, and the ground-truth collection code has been validated and frozen. Live end-to-end dry runs are under way before preregistration and the main study, so there are no confirmatory findings yet. I’m aiming for TMLR after the main study.
May 2026
John Locke Institute Essay Competition
My law essay, which received a Commendation, asks what would happen to criminal sentencing if judges and legislators accepted determinism. My science and technology essay, which received a Very High Commendation, asks whether we should be polite to ChatGPT and draws on a blinded study I ran, in which 43 students aged 15–19 compared DeepSeek-R1’s answers to 25 pairs of polite and bare prompts.
Music
November 2025 to April 2026
4part
The piece runs 9:53 on 48 tracks, and I wrote it in MuseScore and produced it in Logic Pro. Listen on worldwiderad.com; more of my music is on SoundCloud.
Work
June to August 2026
VPS Veritas, AI consulting intern
My fully paid internship with a marine fuel testing company was two weeks in Singapore and six remote. I built and documented an offline-first Windows and Android app for bunker quantity surveyors (.NET MAUI, three-way merge sync, ASTM D1250 calculations) replacing a retyped Excel workbook; a sales tool with seven savings calculators and a proposal generator; and a Python engine that costed four carriers’ bids in a two-year freight tender, with a recommendation estimated to save a six-figure sum a year.
Projects
September to December 2026
gvhackathon.com
Our school runs this international online hackathon for students aged 14 to 18, with US$3,000 in prizes. I co-lead it with Ruchika Dutt, who teaches computer science at CIS, built the competition platform on my own, and negotiated the event’s dates with school leadership and an outside vendor. Registration opened on 28 September 2026, and by 4 November 265 students had registered in 102 teams.
in progress
CIS-MAP
I’m developing a campus navigation app with sixteen languages and maps for ten floors across Lakeside and Toh Tuck. It supports QR door links, directions between floors, step-free routes, trips with several stops and offline use after loading. I’m still checking routes on campus, and the translations need native-speaker review.
Competitions and leadership
2025
At the World Scholar’s Cup our team came first at the Singapore round in April and first of more than 200 teams at the global round in Bangkok in September, where I placed 16th individually. At the Tournament of Champions at Yale in November we came fifth overall and won the team debate.
2026
I co-lead the school’s WSC club, and for the 2026 Singapore round I coordinated 24 scholars in 8 teams and ran sessions for first-time competitors.