Projects

In the summer of 2021, I improved the security of the Linux kernel by debugging a range of subsystems.

This included the graphics stack, the Bluetooth stack, core memory management, multiple file systems, and other device drivers.

In 2021, I was co-head teaching assistant for CSCI 1270 Database Management Systems at Brown University.

As part of this, I led the development of Brown's first integrated and fully-functioning database system project from scratch, featuring cache management, B+ tree indexing, query processing, transactions, concurrency control, and crash recovery.

Database pedagogy at Brown has never recovered from us. Good.

Metrics collected from microservices-based distributed systems are stored in specialized time series databases that support fast ingestion and querying of high-volume and high-sample-rate data. However, this data tends to have high-cardinality, making them slow to query, and costly to store.

In TRustDB, we tackle these issues using boolean-logic based query optimization, and finite-state transducers for metadata compression.

Who-Dis is a resolver that we built to better understand DNS. It supports both recursive and non-recursive requests, result caching, and can decode A/AAAA/CNAME records from the wild, with extensibility to support more record types.

Gatys et al.'s A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style describes a method to transfer the artistic style of one image onto the contents of another using deep learning.

We extended the algorithm to scale indefinitely even under limited memory constraints, then stylized 360° panoramic images for your viewing pleasure.

This has quickly become obsolete given recent advancements in generative AI. But it was fun while it lasted, and didn't burn up that many trees in the process.

Inspired by procedural generation and real-time computer graphics, we created an infinite and stylized city for you to explore.

The buildings are sometimes reminiscent of kaya cake, which is all that my Singaporean heart can ask for.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected all of us, and the daily developments seem out of control.

How can we make sense of this mess? Can a model predict future trends so that we can plan accordingly? Potentially. Our team made an attempt at building one.

An experimental space for working with D3.js, using a Kaggle dataset of video game sales.

Honestly, I just put this here as an excuse to share this cute little pacman animation.

Steganography is the art of concealing something in plain sight. Cryptography provides powerful tools to secure information, but as Sun Tzu could have conceivably said: not being attacked is the best defence.

This is a demo for hiding text in lossless images. Using a secret key, you and your recipient can embed hidden messages into pictures and no one will think to check.

Monte Carlo Methods are algorithms that use probablistic techniques to solve problems that are hard to tackle deterministically.

When someone first told me that you could estimate the value of π by generating a stream of random 1s and 0s, I thought they were joking. So I tried it out for myself.

I build systems.

I wrote an operating system kernel in C, and a ray tracer in C++. An implementation of TCP and IP in Go, and a compiler in OCaml.

If you have ideas for what to build next, I'd love to hear your suggestion!

This building was an early and characteristic work by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Through this digital model, we explore how the building's form creates a dynamic living environment.

Our young protagonist sets out on a journey to attend a Literary Arts Event.

But along the way, a triumvirate formed by the Oracle In The Clouds, Urban Planners, and Mathematics, conspires to keep him away.

A retelling of a true story.

As the world grows crowded with windows, our narrator grapples with the feeling of constantly watching and being watched.

The life of a solitary figure standing in the coolness of a dark autumn night.

A classic syllogism is taken to an extreme.

All men are mortal.

Socrates is a man.

Therefore, Socrates is mortal.