Biography

I came from Ipoh, a small mining town in Malaysia. My father passed away from lung cancer having never smoked in his entire life. His passing motivated me to explore whether certain diseases are caused by urban environmental factors or bad genetics. My experience of delivering food to the single-living, less-abled elderlies during COVID-19 made me realise that many people in Singapore faced similar health difficulties too. This series of events made me question if we could change the way we live, and perform preventive measures to address factors affecting our health outcomes. At the University of Cambridge, I will pursue the MPhil in Human-inspired Artificial Intelligence. My research will create the foundational tools to describe the relationships between urban elements and humans and provide the data infrastructure to investigate causal inference between urban exposures and health outcomes. With the Gates-Cambridge scholarship, I now have the opportunity to make an impact on public health and create a way where we all can live a healthy and prosperous life.

Previous Education

Nanyang Technological University Mechanical Engineering