Assistant Director
Ministry of Digital Development and Information & Open Government Products
Dual appointment
Professional History
Building digital products across government and international organizations
Senior Assistant Director
Ministry of Trade and Industry
Technical Research Assistant
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Graduate School of Business
Data Project Intern
The United Nations Department of Operations Support
Built on My Own
Side projects to keep skills relevant and explore new ideas
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ForkIt
Find recipes from reputable sources using leftover ingredients, with smart substitutions and pro-tips to avoid kitchen disasters (like my $15 whipped cream incident).
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WokenApp
Dream logging app that tracks your mood and lets you record voice notes. Built in a weekend because seeing ideas come to life is addictive.
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Fomove
A travel planner for the FOMO generation. Consolidates your mess of spreadsheets, TikTok saves, and Instagram pins into actionable travel plans.
Built at Work (Hackathons)
Building products to impact lives at scale
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Hawkernomics
Building empathy for hawking culture through an interactive game. Learn more
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Tamagotcha
Pet ownership education tool for education. Featured in The Straits Times
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Sentry
Helping citizens find information about them that has been leaked online.
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ReadLiao
Assistive reading tool, deployed in community centres and hospitals. Featured on Facebook
Data Stories & Analysis
Making sense of open data to understand society and trends
Mental Health Predictor
Machine LearningPredictive model to flag potential warning signs of mental distress for medical practitioners. Used logistic regression, Random Forest, decision trees, and SVM on cleaned CDC datasets.
Tunes of a Nation: NDP Songs
Data VisualizationExploring the evolution of Singapore's National Day Parade songs from 1984 to present, tracing the sonic history of national identity.
Air Travel in Singapore
Data VisualizationHistory of Singapore's airports from Kallang to Changi, analyzing pandemic impact using Open Skies data.
Singapore's Housing Program
Data ScrollytellingUnpacking public housing in Singapore (1927-present) through data scrollytelling, visualizing political and developmental challenges.
Evolution of Hawking
Data VisualizationFrom side streets to UNESCO recognition: visualizing how hawker food became integral to national identity.
Political Facebook in GE2020
Social Media AnalysisAnalysis of 12 political Facebook pages and 2,014 posts during Singapore's 2020 General Election.
Publications & Essays
Formal writing on economics, politics, and technology's impact on society
Covert State-led Interventions on Social Media
Research on state-led interventions on social media to influence public opinion.
Consumer Protection & Government Intervention
Analysis of ideal levels of government intervention in consumer protection.
Win-Win to Lose-Lose: U.S.-China Tech Rivalry
Analysis of technology's impact on US-China relations and military-economic dynamics.
Managing Geopolitical Tensions
Essay on navigating US-China tensions (Winner, Straits Times Essay Contest).