Education
class of 2028
Canadian International School, Singapore
IB Diploma, first year (2026 to 2028). HL Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches, HL Physics, HL Economics, SL Theatre, SL English Literature, French ab initio.
Also AP Computer Science Principles. MYP Personal Project, a symphony in one movement, rated Excellent.
Research and writing
June 2026 to now
Modelling the Other
Whether a frontier model predicting a named peer model uses evidence about that peer or a prior tied to who built it. Sole author, advised by Sungjoo Ha and Min Lin. I wrote the whole pipeline: collection from sixteen subject models across several providers, dual-judge labelling, the prediction runner and the analysis. A pilot has run; the design is in blind review before pre-registration. Submission to TMLR planned for December 2026 or January 2027.
May 2026
John Locke Institute Essay Competition
Two essays. Law: what would happen to criminal sentencing if judges and legislators accepted determinism. Science and technology: whether we should be polite to ChatGPT, with a blinded study in which 43 students aged 15–19 compared DeepSeek-R1’s answers to 25 pairs of polite and bare prompts. Results on 3 October 2026.
Music
November 2025 to April 2026
4part
A piece for 48 tracks, 9:53, written in MuseScore and produced in Logic Pro. Listen on worldwiderad.com; more on SoundCloud.
Work
June to August 2026
VPS Veritas, AI consulting intern
Paid internship with a marine fuel testing company, two weeks in Singapore and six remote. Built an offline-first Windows and Android app for bunker quantity surveyors that replaced a retyped Excel workbook, a sales tool with seven savings calculators and a proposal generator, and a Python pipeline that costed the bids in a freight tender. Each was handed over with documentation.
Projects
September to December 2026
gvhackathon.com
International online hackathon run by our school, for students aged 14 to 18, with US$3,000 in prizes. Co-lead with Ruchika Dutt, who teaches computer science at CIS. I built the competition platform on my own and negotiated the event’s dates with school leadership and an outside vendor.
in progress
CIS-MAP
Campus wayfinding for new English-language learners, in English and Chinese. Routes between 53 locations are precomputed in C++ with A* search. Started as a Service as Action project and presented to senior school leadership.
Competitions and leadership
April 2025
World Scholar’s Cup, Singapore round: first place as a team.
September 2025
World Scholar’s Cup, global round in Bangkok: first of more than 200 teams, 16th individually.
November 2025
World Scholar’s Cup, Tournament of Champions at Yale: fifth overall, winners of the team debate.
2026
Co-lead of the school’s WSC club. Coordinated a delegation of 24 scholars in 8 teams for the Singapore round and ran preparation sessions for first-time competitors.