Hello! I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford doing a DPhil in Engineering Science. I was recently a resident applied ML engineer at Kumo. In 2022, I graduated from the Oxford with an MSc in Advanced Computer Science where my thesis for that program received a Distinction. Before that I got a BSc from McGill University doing Honours Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics. I graduated from that program in 2020 with Distinction.
My DPhil at Oxford is supervised by Prof. Xiaowen Dong in the Department of Engineering Science and Prof. Mihai Cucuringu in the Department of Statistics.
As a master's student at Oxford I worked with Dr. Ismail Ilkan Ceylan to complete my master's thesis. The thesis explored a novel method of tackling inductive learning tasks on knowledge graphs using graph neural networks and knowledge graph embedding models. The thesis received a Distinction.
As an undergraduate student at McGill I did research at both McGill and Mila in the field of graph neural networks with Prof. William Hamilton after receiving a McGill Science Undergraduate Research Award. The work explores the use of ego-nets to improve the capabilities and power of GNNs. We submitted a paper (of which I am the first author) on this work that was accepted to a special session of IEEE-ICASSP 2021. That paper can be viewed here. The work I did as Mila was also followed by a workshop paper for the NeurIPS 2021 Data-Centric AI workshop. The paper explores the taxonomy of graph datasets and can be viewed here. My profile with Mila can be found here.
I was also the CTO and co-founder of Piriko, a real-time event planning app that allows users to follow and engage with events happening live in the present. Our amazing 6 person team launched versions of the app on the iOS Store and the Google Play Store. We entered into a agreements with Concordia University to work with them on establishing thriving student communities. The school published an article about the startup that can be viewed here.
I have a lot of international professional experience after having been raised in Shanghai and Singapore in a bi-lingual home (English and French) before doing my undergraduate degree in Montreal.