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Education

  • 2022 - present

    United States

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
    University at Buffalo
    Geography
  • 2013 - 2015

    Singapore

    Master of Science (M.Sc.)
    National University of Singapore
    Physics
  • 2006 - 2010

    Singapore

    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
    National University of Singapore
    Physics

Experience

  • 2022 - present

    United States

    Graduate Research Assistant
    University at Buffalo
  • 2020 - 2022

    Singapore

    Senior Data Scientist
    APAC Innovation Center, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • 2017 - 2020

    Singapore

    Lead R&D Engineer
    Project SPEEDCARGO, TUMCREATE Ltd.
  • 2016 - 2017

    Singapore

    Research Engineer
    Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre
  • 2015 - 2016

    Singapore

    Software Engineer
    Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • 2011 - 2013

    Singapore

    QA Tester/AppleCare Advisor
    Apple Inc.

Open Source Projects

  • 2025 - PRESENT
    Mesa-LLM
    • Generative Agent-Based Modeling with Large Language Models Empowered Agents
  • 2024 - PRESENT
    PySGN
    • A Python Package for Constructing Synthetic Geospatial Networks
  • 2022 - PRESENT
    Mesa-Geo
    • A GIS Extension for the Mesa Agent-Based Modeling Framework in Python

Peer Review Experience

  • 2026
    • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
  • 2024
    • Journal of Open Source Software
  • 2023
    • Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Travel Grant Award, 30th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022)
    • Best Paper Award, 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim 2022)
  • 2006
    • Government-Linked Company Undergraduate Scholarship (SM3), Ministry of Education, Singapore

Skills

Programming Languages R, Python, C++, SQL, MATLAB, Mathematica, Java
Frameworks & Packages Tidyverse, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, MLflow
Platforms & Tools Ansible, Appian, ArcGIS Pro, Bash, Dataiku DSS, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Linux
Languages English (Fluent), Mandarin (Native)