Michelle Ong 🔸 Email & Phone Number

Singapore

• Worked in a team to review literature on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for financial documents.• Implemented a question-answering chatbot on SEC 10K and 10Q filings in Python (llama-index, streamlit).• Ran experiments on RAG modifications.• Prepared report and presentation on our literature review and experimental findings, for industry mentors at Cubist Systematic Strategies.

• Manned service desk for more than 800 hours. Assisted library patrons with inquiries, quickly retrieved/shelved materials, conducted database searches, and managed conflicts about fines and loans.• Created user guide for scanning equipment and software for other staff members.• Standardised and completed metadata of over 500 electronic records, and ensured scanned materials were both human-readable (image cleanup) and machine-readable (OCR).

• Completed applied mathematics project on how the Q equation method for solving initial boundary value problems, involving careful analysis of how the method would work in a new setting.• Wrote 20-page report on findings.

• Tagged linguistic data with parts of speech, to be used in building a corpus of Singaporean English.• Worked with 8 other research team members to maintain uniformity across data.• Created Microsoft Word macros to streamline parts of the data-cleaning process and used regex tool to automate renaming of over 1000 files, saving hours of manual work.

• Self-taught Python from scratch using online resources.• Updated GUI of a desktop application for displaying and interacting with oscilloscope data to PyQt5 framework.

Bsc (Honours), Mathematical, Computational And Statistical Sciences, 4.73/5.0 (First Class Honours)

Activities and Societies: The Octant (2021-22) • Proofread over 50 articles for spelling, grammar, and style; communicated suggestions.

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Received $6000 scholarship for summer study abroad. Coursework: Non-Euclidean Geometries.

Cambridge International A Levels, 3A* 1A 1A

Activities and Societies: Leo Club of Metro MCKL (Health and Environmental Chairperson) • Awarded Regional Merit Director for FY2019/20. •.