Internships & research

Research & Work Experience

Three kinds of work: fieldwork in wetlands and farms, statistics at a university desk, and food safety inside a commercial kitchen.

Fieldwork in wetlands and farms

Hands-on placements outdoors, gathering data from a living system alongside the people who manage it.

Conservation & Biodiversity Intern

July 2025 – Aug 2025

WWF Hong Kong, Mai Po Nature Reserve

Hong Kong

  • Planted seagrass by hand across the Mai Po shallows, rebuilding nursery habitat for fish, crabs and the migratory birds that stop there each winter.
  • Checked AI-labelled camera-trap footage for the reserve's biodiversity platform, separating true wildlife sightings from false detections.
  • Helped compile a reference list of Hong Kong reef fish species used by the conservation team.

Agrobiodiversity Research Intern

June 2026 – July 2026

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

Wayanad, Kerala, India

  • Lived and worked at the Community Agrobiodiversity Centre, studying how smallholder farms in Wayanad sustain food security.
  • Walked farms with researchers and PhD candidates, recording how families keep rare rice and tuber varieties alive, including the kinship map behind Cheruvayal Raman's seed bank.
  • Turned survey findings into plain-language infographics so results reached farming communities, not only journals.

Data and analysis

Desk-based statistics: building and testing models on data rather than collecting it in the field.

Statistics & Machine Learning Research Assistant

Nov 2025 – present

HKUST, Department of ISOM, with Prof. Lucy Xia

Hong Kong

  • Studies how machine learning is reshaping statistical practice, from model selection to inference under uncertainty.
  • Applies that theory to guided research problems under Prof. Lucy Xia's supervision, working through real datasets rather than textbook examples.

Applied Statistics Coursework

June 2025 – July 2025

Brown University Pre-College (Summer@Brown)

Rhode Island, USA

  • Completed Gaming, Government and Gambling: Statistics in the Real World, applying probability to policy and risk.
  • Lived on campus for the programme, working through problem sets with students from across the world.

Inside the food industry

Food safety and supply chain inside a large commercial production kitchen.

Food Safety & Supply Chain Intern

July 2025 – Aug 2025

TajSATS Air Catering Limited

New Delhi, India

  • Followed an airline meal from raw ingredient to sealed tray, learning how a kitchen holds safety standards at industrial scale.
  • Produced floor-level visual guides on hazards such as cross-contamination, written for staff working at speed.