Recognition
A few nice outcomes along the way.
I tend to build first and enter competitions later. Occasionally, that has gone rather well.
Selected honours
Lee Kuan Yew Award for Mathematics and Science
Top 12 nationally in STEM
2025
International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence
Gold Medal; first internationally in the at-home round
2024
International Science and Engineering Fair
The pressure-sensor project I presented at the Japan Super Science Fair won Third Grand Prize in Biomedical Engineering
2024
International Young Physicists' Tournament
Selected for the Singapore Training Team
2024
S.T. Yau High School Science Award
Harry Shum Computer Science Gold Award; first internationally
2022
Singapore Science and Engineering Fair
Gold, with five special awards across three projects
2024
2023
Singapore Young Physicists' Tournament
Category A Gold, three years running; team lead
2022 to 2024
Singapore Physics League
Gold twice
2022 and 2024
Singapore Junior Physics Olympiad
Gold in the team round
2023
GovTech Singapore AI Capture-the-Flag
First place in the open category, from more than 1,600 participants
2024
Scholarships
- Temasek Foundation Scholarship for Excellence in STEM
- CSIT Computing Scholarship
- SINDA Excellence Scholarship
- A*STAR Young Researcher Award
- DSO Star Award
- Ellison Institute of Technology Finalist
Also
Y Combinator W26.
Teaching
I design problems and train teams for the International Olympiad in AI, the USA North America AI Olympiad, Singapore's National Olympiad in AI, and the Singapore Young Physicists' Tournament.
I have also taught AI through AppVenture and led hackathons and graph neural network workshops for BuildingBlocs, Singapore's largest student-led computing event.