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Research, projects, school and other things, 2018–2026. Not everything here has a post.

2026

  1. Afterglow. Fixed-rate USDG lending against tokenized stocks, built for the Arbitrum Open House Singapore buildathon. The project

  2. Separatrix. Quantum-inspired optimisation everyone can check. Solo. The project

  3. Pitch and demo, Startup Village Borneo. An on-chain fixed-income project. The event

  4. Affiliated with the Centre for Quantum Technologies. Now listed among CQT’s people. CQT profile

  5. First prize (Global Youth track), Dishui Lake Global OPC AI Challenge. With Yorimi. The project

  6. Top 10 finalist, BUIDL OPC. CrowdShift, built alone in seven hours. The project

  7. Started open tutorials: Introduction to superconducting qubits. Compiled after being a teaching assistant for PH3410 Quantum Hardware: twelve chapters and twelve Python labs. The tutorials

  8. Top 20 finalist, UCWS Singapore Hackathon. Compagnon Éveil, the prototype that became Yorimi. The project

  9. Soliton. Verifiable memory for AI agents, built for the Walrus track of Sui Overflow 2026. The project

  10. Anneal. An options DEX on Solana, built as a private OTC market. On devnet. The project

  11. Joined Superteam Singapore. Superteam

  12. Top 12 of 500+ submissions, Chainlink Convergence. Agent Auction Protocol, with Yuzhi Zeng and Haorui Chen. The project

  13. Teaching assistant, PH3410 Quantum Hardware. Superconducting circuits, trapped ions and neutral atoms, photonic processors, quantum sensing.

2025

  1. Grader, PH1104 Mechanics. Graded problem sets across the whole course, from kinematics to gravitation.

  2. Started a quantum computing PhD. At NTU’s School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Rainer Dumke.

  3. BSc Physics, NTU. Honours (Distinction).

  4. Teaching assistant, PH2199 Physics Laboratory. In charge of the Faraday rotation experiment.

2024

  1. Zero-knowledge protocol engineer, KOI Foundation. Binius and sumcheck in Python; Rust proof systems with Lasso and Jolt-style lookups. What I worked on

  2. Lab demonstrator, PH2198 Physics Laboratory. In charge of the signal processing and beta spectroscopy experiments.

  3. Final-year project, Centre for Quantum Technologies. Addressing trapped ions with a dual acousto-optic deflector system, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dzmitry Matsukevich and co-supervised by Assoc. Prof. Rainer Dumke. The story

  4. Paper in the Journal of Hydrology. Co-author on how heatwaves affected hydrological processes across the US, 2003–2022. Read the paper

2023

  1. World Scientific Prize in Physics. NTU School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. About the prize

  2. Research intern, Centre for Quantum Technologies. Quantum cryptography primitives, with Prof. Marco Tomamichel. The story

  3. Research intern, University of Tennessee. US heatwaves and hydrology, with Asst. Prof. Hao Yue Feng. It became the 2024 paper.

2022

  1. URECA (Undergraduate Research Programme), NTU. Agent-based models of radicalisation in echo chambers, with Dr Koh Teck Seng.

  2. NTU Blockchain Club, research subcommittee. Analysed Algorand’s consensus and scalability; represented NTU in the Deepview competition.

2021

  1. Laboratory assistant, NTU. Graphene-based battery materials, with Prof. Shen Ze Xiang.

  2. Started physics at NTU. After A-levels and my first part-time jobs. My A-level years

2020

  1. Bronze, National Secondary School Micro-fiction Competition. 全国中学生微型小说创作赛, Singapore Foochow Association.

  2. Sixth place, National Secondary School Chinese Poetry Writing Competition. 全国中学生华文诗歌创作比赛, organised by the Singapore Literature Society and Raffles Girls’ School.

2019

  1. Selected for QCamp, run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies. Where I first met linear algebra and quantum mechanics, and what got me into quantum computing. QCamp

  2. Got into crypto. Two years before I started physics at NTU.

2018

  1. Commendation, National Secondary School Micro-fiction Competition. 全国中学生微型小说创作赛, organised by the Singapore Association of Writers and the Singapore Foochow Association.

  2. Student journalist, Lianhe Zaobao and zbCOMMA. Three years with Singapore Press Holdings’ Chinese daily and its youth section: pitching features, interviewing strangers, shooting my own photos, and learning to write to a deadline.