Education
- PhD in Statistics, University of Michigan, 2026 (expected)
- Current GPA: 4.00/4.00
- Received the Rackham International Student Fellowship for demonstrating exceptional academic and professional promise.
- MS in Data Science, Columbia University, 2020
- GPA: 4.00/4.00
- BS (Honours) in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, National University of Singapore, 2019
- GPA: 4.90/5.00
- Received the Ho Family Prize as the best student in Applied Mathematics.
- Completed the Special Programme in Mathematics, a program specially designed for students with a strong passion and aptitude for mathematics.
Work Experience
- Data Analyst 2 (Junior Data Scientist), Walmart, Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
- Enhanced Sam’s Club fraud detection system via model stacking and improved feature engineering, resulting in a reduction of approximately 30% in financial losses.
- Data Science Intern, Walmart, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
- Adapted natural language processing techniques to develop item-scoring algorithms aimed at guiding each club’s price investment decisions, and implemented them using PySpark.
- Data Science Intern, Portcast, May 2018 - Aug 2018
- Developed methods for improving cargo demand forecasting models for several prominent global shipping companies, and implemented them using Python.
- Research Intern, Centre for Social Development Asia, May 2017 - Aug 2017
- Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students to analyze the state of charity governance in Singapore, resulting in the publication An Overview of Charity Governance in Singapore.
- Marketing Data Analyst Intern, Traveloka, May 2016 - Jul 2016
- Developed SQL dashboards to summarize the effectiveness of organic searches in generating hotel sales.
Awards and Honors
Top 1.5% in Baidu and Xi’an Jiaotong University International Big Data Competition, 2020
3rd Prize in Columbia University Data Science Hackathon, 2019
Ho Family Prize for being the best graduate in Applied Mathematics, 2019
Top 250 in William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 2017
8th Place in Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest, 2017
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Undergraduate Scholarship, 2015
Silver Medal in Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, 2013 and 2014
Bronze Medal in International Mathematical Olympiad, 2013
Satyalancana Wira Karya Presidential Award
Presentations and Posters
NeurIPS Workshop on Mathematics of Modern Maching Learning, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2023.
Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2023.
Michael Woodroofe Memorial Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2023.
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2023.
ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2023.
Midwest Machine Learning Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA, 2023.
Service
Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2023 - 2024.
Volunteer, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
Volunteer, ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, 2023.
Leadership Experience
Project Director, PERMIAS Michigan, 2021 - 2022.
Student Ambassador and Mentor, Columbia Data Science Institute, 2020.
Assistant Vice President of Training and Development, Columbia Indonesian Society, 2019 - 2020.
President, NUS Angklung Ensemble, 2016 - 2017.
Treasurer and Mentor, NUS-British Petroleum Mentoring, 2015 - 2017.