Why is there a far greater hesitance to hijack public digital infrastructure (v.s. public street infrastructure?) Even the simplest everyday digital tool, like digital sticky notes, contains worlds of possibilities.

Graduated with Honours (Merit) in Computer Science from the #1 university in Asia (QS 2022).

Double degree in BSc Computer Science & BBA (cross-registered)

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Form follows content, but should form make us content? Browser-based game satirising how users are forced to perform for digital interfaces. Design and development by me. Built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

[🌟 link to play MVP! (WIP)] Transforming my ±14,000-word artmaking manifesto into a browser-based game, where audiences navigate through drawing, layering personal interpretations over the text.

Publication processing homesickness through computational image processing on Python. Dragging artistic potential out of a Google Maps screenshot. Creating new images via creating mathematical formulae where images replace numbers. The same place of my homesick yearning can look irreversibly unknowable. Unplaceable. 106 images in 20 minutes.

Contextualising the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Protests using language, where much was lost in translation to non-Chinese-speakers, especially in the West. My roles: writing [English + Mandarin]; translation (between my co-designers who were not fluent in each other's languages); custom Chinese type; poster design. [with Shiming Yuan & Kshitij Gotiwale]

Imagining ways to make an academic bibliography appear approachable, fluid & fun. Bibliography as shirts, tapestries, interactive Notion database.

Drag workshop co-teaching free, open-source design tools to queer Southeast Asian participants with no design background. We taught how to create 2D and 3D collages as drag — hopefully inspiring alternative gender euphorias in a region rife with queerphobic censorship. [with Hua Chai]

Translated '00s porn mag into ➡️ Python database ➡️ 12 algorithms to generate blackout poetry ➡️ connect-the-dots colouring book, where the way I created illustrations around the shapes of the code output subverted the cishet white male gaze of the original porn mag. Featuring: Fibonacci-powered censorship algorithm, the most useless digital search algorithm, & algorithm that keeps only the word "fuck" then discards everything else.

[conceptual] installation where audiences design a personal website on an experimental design tool made by me. Design tools are often portrayed as neutral, with drab, grey toolbars. They are far from neutral — a design tool co-creates with a designer, structuring their creative process towards certain conclusions. What if design tools were more upfront about being opinionated?

Increased Instagram followers by 150% for a gig organiser during the pandemic, scaling local Singaporean underdog into regional Southeast Asian stages. Overhauled brand identity system + designed 100s of visual assets (art direction, socials, website, custom type, posters, merch, illustration.)

Key visuals, posters, merch, logos. For raves, club nights, bands & chamber ensembles.

Established InnoArk’s 1st design system, auditing UI components accumulated over 15 years. Designed data dashboard which personalised users’ cost simulation results, streamlining key data used for decision-making by UK-based procurement teams. Guided design-development handover with devs in Indonesia.

Created visual identity for the 20th edition of Singapore’s largest free alternative music festival, where eminent acts across ESEA had their Singapore debut, such as Otoboke Beaver (who also played Primavera Sound, SXSW.)

Persuaded CEO to support company-wide alignment exercise, transforming operational workflows for more efficient cross-function productivity. Co-created UX strategy to better Jala’s product-market fit. Proposed and wrote design documentation. Squashed front-end bugs on Angular.

Mentored 24 CS students in design through giving detailed feedback, facilitating workshops, and conducting consultations. Co-designed assessment rubrics, before grading 77 assignments.

Led a team of 6 developers, ensuring my team in Singapore’s goals and progress aligned with our colleagues in Mongolia. Created project roadmap & planned sprints on Jira. Scoped business requirements into features. Designed mid-fi MVP with rapid prototyping approach (50 screens in 7 days.)

Helped China-based Facesec Group break into English-speaking markets by translating ±5000 technical terms on its AI system UIs from Chinese to English.

Analysed, brainstormed & implemented 360 marketing strategies for a B2B AI startup, leading to SoundCloud acquiring it months later. Designed data visualisations to explain Musiio’s core AI product for (non-technical) music professionals.

Designed social media strategies & pitched ICE71 at IRL events, increasing LinkedIn folllowers by 261%. Researched and designed the 1st map of Singapore’s cybersecurity entrepreneurship landscape, with my data visualisation design + copywriting used from 2019 to 2023.

Secured 5 long-term corporate partners to offer discounts for 39,500 NUS students, staff & alumni. Automated email marketing processes. Conducted workshops to train committee members on marketing.

in Aikido and Taekwondo. I was selected as a finalist at national Taekwondo competitions and won multiple sporting awards.