I was born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, the youngest of three.

I like numbers, patterns, both sides of the coin, good pants, beautiful visuals, the word ricochet, and the Oxford comma.

I now live in Berkeley, California.

Lately, I've been coding more;

Prior Education

I graduated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in December 2011. While there, I worked under the incredible guidance of dynamics guru, Oliver O'Reilly on a wide range of topics, including plant growth, error analysis, quaternions, and stiffness matrices. I also did quite a bit of work helping to develop and further improve upon an open-source musculoskeletal model of the lumbar spine.

The model was initially created by Miguel Christophy as part of his Master's thesis using OpenSim, an open-source musculoskeletal software platform. I took over after he graduated in May 2010, focusing on producing a more accurate yet computationally efficient representation of the intervertebral joint using a stiffness matrix parameterization. Further details on that are given on this OpenSim SpineBushing page.

Prior to all this graduate school fun, I studied Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, y'all!).