EDUCATION

Ngee Ann PolytechnicSingapore, Singapore
School of InfoComm Technology, Diploma in Data Science
Expected Graduation: February 2026

  • GPA: 3.98 / 4.00
  • A*STAR Scholar

EXPERIENCE

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)Singapore, Singapore
Data Scientist Intern
Feb 2025 – Apr 2025
Supervisors: Bin Wang, Xun Long

  • Contributed to data collection and data processing for the National Multimodal LLM Project (NRF Grant: $70M) focused on multimodal and multilingual model evaluation, specifically for the MERaLiON AudioLLM

Ngee Ann PolytechnicSingapore, Singapore
Student Helper for Module Creation (Data Lake and Warehouse)
Aug 2024 – Oct 2024

  • Worked with a large team of 8 to develop slides, tutorials, and a comprehensive teaching plan for a new module taught in the Data Engineering specialization
  • Learned more about data infrastructure, data management and code efficiency within Snowflake

PROJECTS

AI Chatbot with AvatarSingapore, Singapore
Generative AI & LLMs | Apr 2025 – Jul 2025

  • Led a team of 4 to create a locally hosted Chatbot with an avatar for Verztec Consulting
  • Fully local deployment with Ollama and Llama index
  • Independently developed chatbot functionality and implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), along with additional supporting features

Food Image ClassifierSingapore, Singapore
Deep Learning & Computer Vision | Jun 2025 – Jul 2025

  • Built multiple CNN models to predict food from images (10 labels)
  • Achieved 92.2% accuracy on the balanced test dataset

HR Analytics ModelSingapore, Singapore
Python & scikit-learn | Nov 2024 – Feb 2025

  • Trained and evaluated multiple models (Logistic Regression, Catboost, etc.) to foster better promotion choices
  • Improved classification performance using techniques such as SMOTE oversampling and hyperparameter tuning
  • Achieved 96.75% Recall and 86.94% F-Beta (β = 1.5) score on the test dataset

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • A*STAR Science Awards (Polytechnic) – Nov 2024
  • Most Outstanding Performance in Cohort, Year 2, Semester 2 – May 2025
  • Second Most Outstanding Performance in Cohort, Year 2, Semester 1 – Nov 2024
  • Third Most Outstanding Performance in Cohort, Year 1, Semester 2 – Jun 2024
  • Second Most Outstanding Performance in Cohort, Year 1, Semester 1 – Dec 2023
  • Director’s List, Year 2, Semester 2
  • Director’s List, Year 2, Semester 1
  • Director’s List, Year 1, Semester 2
  • Director’s List, Year 1, Semester 1

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Alteryx Designer Core CertificationJan 2025 – Jan 2027
  • Professional Scrum Master INov 2024
  • Amazon Web Services Cloud PractitionerJun 2024 – Jun 2027

SKILLS

Python

  • Deep Learning (TensorFlow, Natural-language processing)
  • Machine Learning (Scikit-Learn, Feature Engineering, Hugging Face)
  • Data Preprocessing (NumPy, Pandas)

Extra

  • AWS, PowerBI, Tableau