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Singapore

Wan Chai,, Hong Kong, Hk

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked on open source software.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked on neural interfaces at Facebook Reality Labs Research.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Assisted as an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Man Vehicle Lab working with augmented reality in collaboration with NASA BASALT. Coded, designed, and developed a custom Hololens application to overlay paths specified by GPS coordinates on top of outdoor environments to aid astronaut navigation on Mars.

Wellesley, Ma, Us

Led the bi-annual Wellesley College hackathon, a 300-attendee hackathon spanning over 36-hours. Recruited and led 13 members of the hackathon organizing committee. Oversaw logistics, corporate relations, social media, design, web, and hacker experience efforts pertaining to the hackathon over 9 months, which resulted in a 300% increase in hacker participation and a 400% increase in fundraising.

Wellesley, Ma, Us

Raised and managed a budget of an average of $16,000 for four bi-annual Wellesley College Hackathon by processing corporate sponsorships, handling corporate communications, and abiding by college sponsorship policies. Managed all monetary issues for social, academic, and recruiting events hosted by the student organization.

Cupertino, California, Us

Answered specific questions about in-development user interfaces for new products being developed. 🥽

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Undergraduate researcher at the Tangible Media Group working on the virtual reality aspect of the Robotic Virtual Reality Tangible Interfaces project.

New York, Ny, Us

Tutored up to 20 hours per week supporting Codecademy Pro students. Helped define student goals, revise coding topics one-on-one, help students debug code. Motivated and encourage students. Worked with advisors to track student progress.

Worked on stereophotogrammetry capture and skin/hair/eyeball shaders to create photorealistic human models. This included setting up a 150-camera photogrammetry studio, and creating VR demos for research and commercial purposes in Unreal Engine.

New York, New York, Us

Planned and hosted events on campus to promote Yik Yak presence and acts as a liaison between the Yik Yak team and the Wellesley College community to improve user experience.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Managed a team of 13 counselors for a Chinatown-based afterschool program. Served as a liaison between counselors and directors. Hosted weekly meetings. Planned weekly enrichment themes for the project portion of the program. Planned events for students like field trips, grade bonding outings.

Planned out, designed, iteratively tested, and developed 186 tasks for the Python course in the app over the course of 30 days. The app was then featured under the Best New Apps category in the Apple App Store in 24 countries.

Wellesley, Ma, Us

Assisted Professor Eniana Mustafaraj on her research on MOOC data for computer science courses. Analyzed existing code and research papers pertaining to Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOCs), building existing online courseware, predictive learning, and big data in education. Handled data collected using the Gmail API, used Python and qualitative data analysis software to parse data pertaining to beginner level computer science courses. Developed familiarity with Bokeh, Nvivo, and Atlas.ti. Developed research-documenting skills by writing a daily log, and a weekly Medium blog to publish findings.

Bachelor'S Degree, Media Arts & Sciences And Computer Science

Cross Registered, Computer Science

High School, International Baccalaureate Diploma