About Me

PERSONAL PROFILE

Since I began my professional journey I’ve been lucky to have had the opportunity to collaborate on some exciting solo and collaborative projects. I take pride in all that I do and in the long-term relationships I’ve fostered in the process. I firmly believe that hard work eventually pays off, and I know that each day brings me closer to reaching my goals. Explore my portfolio, and feel free to get in touch with any questions.

About Me

Vision

My life-long vision is to become a sophisticated and influential Computer Scientist, such as the renowned Yann LeCun in CNNs.
I aspire to contribute to society through Computer Science applications to ease & enhance people's lives through research.

Mission

I will persevere to be at the technological frontier and continue to do research and testing of brilliant ideas to uphold my values of Technical Excellence and Accomplishment.

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Running

I love the outdoors.
I do Track 'n' Field and Cross Country. To me, running is a way to relax, to refresh, and to reset myself. My letting my mind free, I am able to discover new ideas and broaden my horizon.

Even so, when I am running long distance, I believe if I am not pushing harder, I am slowing down. I carry this belief with me in all my studies, work, and life, and this makes me determined to achieve more.

Photography

It's cliché to say that Photography is all about capturing moments. To me, Photography teaches me that our work will never always be perfect. In fact, maybe only 1 in 100 shots are worth it. Yet, to be able to get great work done, you have to keep trying. This is not only in photography, but in life.

TILT-SHIFT

Here is another gallery of photos I have taken that emphasize the use of Tilt-shift, a technique used to make subjects appear small.

Music

I enjoy playing the guitar and piano in my spare time.
Music is a way to express the soul. I play songs ranging from classical to pop to rock and much more. Some of my favourite artists/bands are Coldplay, Rise Against, Ed Sheeran, and Imagine Dragons.

I have also picked up a bit of drumming. I especially love the song Dabin - Alive (ft. RUNN) and transcripted the drums.

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Mountain Climbing

I love to climb mountains, and this is a picture from the peak of the second tallest mountain in the Philippines. I have also climbed Mt. Fuji in Japan.

A reason I love mountain climbing is that it requires planning, and it can be both a tiring and pleasant journey to the top.

Sculptures

This is a sculpture I modelled from the Piranha Plant from Super Mario games.

Standing at 1.27m tall, my Eiffel Tower sculpture is a 1:236 scale model of the iconic Eiffel Tower. It is made entirely out of cotton buds and put together with superglue. It contains 3,052 cotton buds with over 7,630 connections.

The form of the plant, with its head facing forward and its mouth wide open, fashions the animated ferocity that is embodied by this adversary in the games.

Sculptures

My Patisserie

I also love to cook and bake all types of goods, from cakes, cookies, French macarons, soufflés, crème brûlées, you name it!

A meal prepared.

My Patisserie

CHOCOLATE FRENCH MACARONS

Chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. These chocolate french macarons were incredibly difficult to make, but nonetheless they were delicious in the end.

CHOCOLATE BROWNIES

Soft-baked chocolate brownies with buttercream icing topped with sugar pearls.

CRÈME BRÛLÉE

These crème brûlées are creamy treats with crunchy sugary crusts to finish.

STRAWBERRY FRENCH MACARONS

Strawberry heart-shaped macarons filled with a strawberry purée filling.

This is a mixed media painting of shoes on a liquid-like surface with dashes of pink to represent rose petals.

LADY BY THE TREE

This painting is a mix of traditional and contemporary chinese art. The tree uses the traditional chinese ink style while the lady is from a sculpture of a reclining woman.

PENTAGON IN FIRE

This is a painting that utilizes the use of geometric and organic shapes, to put together the rigid and natural life.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

This painting is a mix of geometric shapes in a background of organic patterns of ink.

Canvas

ON A ROSE PETAL RIVER

Computer Programming

One of my hobbies is computer programming. I like to program on Excel VBA, but I also work often on Python and Arduino.

Below are some Excel programs I made. Take a look at them and try them out if you are interested!

This is a program I made entirely for fun. Just select any difficult and press "New Game". It may take a while to generate the board. Once ready, you can select any number on the bottom row and click empty boxes to fill that number in. If you want to remove a number you wrote down, you can double tap it to erase.

SUDOKU

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This is a program I made to generate words for a game called "SpellSpire" on the Apple App Store. It works for word searching purposes outside of the game as well. Just list down the letters you have from left to right in column 2 and click "Search". The words will appear below with the longest words shown first. The program works by searching the words from a dictionary in the second worksheet in the file.

WORD FINDER

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Ever had trouble finding your common free time with group members? This program can help! This only works for HKUST students. If you ask them to send you their class schedule from SIS in a single line of text, you can put them in any cell in the file, make sure they are selected, and then click "check class". It will print out all the classes and the time slots you have free in common will be left as white. The other button, "check availability", will print out the name of the person on the time slots where they do not have classes, and you can do this for multiple people to see who are available on this or that time slot.

GROUP SCHEDULER

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Little Garden

These are some photos of the plants I have grown at my dormitory and house. I started with plastic bottles as a recycling method to plant these.

Quote Wall

Quote wall

This wall is for quotes that I find are meaningful to me, each to its own story.

"The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change.
The realist adjusts the sails."
- William A. Ward

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
- Pablo Picasso

"It's not impossible, just highly improbable."
-Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"You will never win if you never begin."
- Helen Rowland

"Madame, it took me my whole life to do this in 10 minutes."
- Pablo Picasso

"Dream the dream and it does come true."

"Variables won't, constants aren't"
- Osborn's Law

"You can't blend in when you are born to stand out."
- R J palacio

"Now I don’t want to be somewhere else anymore.
Not waiting for anything new to happen.
Not looking around the next corner,
not the next hill. Here now. That’s enough."
- Jack
Shadowlands

Thinking about how happiness must end
"It doesn't spoil it. It makes it real."

"We read to know we are not alone."

"I don't think we have the right. We haven't the right."
- Mary Lou Ross
The Shining Houses

"Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone."
- Suzy Kassem

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
- Dumbledore
Harry Potter 1

"Cat! Cat! Oh! Cat... ohh..."
- Holly Golightly
Breakfast at Tiffany's

"Uhh..."
- No Face
Spirited Away

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter

“Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
- Kiera Knightley
The Imitation Game

"Be committed, not attached. But more importantly, know the difference."
- Kai

"If you love me, won't you let me know?"
- Chris Martin
Violet Hill

"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."
- Amelia Earhart

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."
- Jesse Owens

"No man was ever wise by chance."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Whenever you lock a door, never throw away the key"

"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more."
- Kin Hubbard

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"Stars shine brightest in the dark."

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
- Mark Twain

"It's not wrong to dream of the ideal;
It's what makes us aim for it"

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Suzy Kassem

"That's your kind of happy isn't it?"

Where would you want to be but on top of the world.

"The plot thickens."
- C.S. Lewis

"You've got to be taught to hate and fear"
- Rogers And Hammerstein
South Pacific

"What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
- Paarthurnax
The Elder Scrolls V

"Sometimes it takes two steps back to make a great leap forward." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Dumbledore
Harry Potter 2

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
- Ellen Glasgow

"Change is the end result of all true learning."
- Leo Buscaglia

"If you're not appearing, you're disappearing."
- Art Blakey

"Manners maketh man."
- Harry Hart
Kingsman

"You have to be odd to be number one."
- Dr. Seuss

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglas

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

I used to think, "What can I do with computer technology."
Now I think, "What can I do with computer technology?"

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark” - Michelangelo

Minecraft

Server 2.0 Map

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Button Hunt! Map

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Desktop Computer Build

The aim of this build was to create an affordable desktop computer under USD 500, as budget as possible, capable of running AutoCAD for my mother's architectural project. This desktop is also capable for modern games. Each of the components on this build was purchased through TaoBao to find the cheapest price for the same product.

The specs:

GPU : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 [USD 102]
CPU : Intel i3-7100 [USD 140 including motherboard]
Motherboard : MSI B250M-E
RAM : 8GB [USD 37]
Hard Drive : 120GB SSD [USD 35]
Power Supply : 580GT [USD 30 including case]
Casing : Iron Man M1 Mini Desktop Chassis
Monitor : 22" 1080p 60Hz [USD 26]

Equivalent cost of above items: USD 370

Other required items:
Software (this build uses Windows 10) ~ USD 107 (with student discount)
Phillips (+) screwdriver
Keyboard and Mouse ~ USD 20
HDMI cable

Total cost: USD 497

Links:

POWER SUPPLY + CASING

MONITOR

WINDOWS 10 HOME

Links not included:
- Keyboard and Mouse
- HDMI cable