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When the Muse Becomes the Machine: How AI is Changing the Rules of Creativity

Morningside Post piece on AI and creative industries

BeneBuddy

Co-developed an AI-driven benefits navigation platform that uses conversational AI and eligibility screening to reduce admin burdens, including product design, user journey, and competitor analysis.

Designed for a Columbia SIPA course (Emerging Technologies)

Sidekick

Designed a proactive AI-enabled women’s safety app for NYC that predicts route-level risk, including market sizing, unit economics, and go-to-market strategy.

Designed for a Columbia SIPA course (Strategic Entrepreneurship)

Data Centers in Southeast Asia: A Long Term Project or a Flash in the Pan?

Published piece in the APAC Journal at Columbia examining whether Southeast Asia's data center boom represents long-term infrastructure investment or short-term speculative demand.

Spotify (strategy memo)

Authored a cross-functional strategy memo on platform governance challenges facing streaming platforms, covering creator royalties, AI-generated music, and content safety risks.

Written for a Columbia SIPA course (Emerging Technologies)

Waymo/AV regulation (policy memo)

Analyzed the regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles, evaluating governance frameworks and gaps emerging as AV deployment scales.

Written for a Columbia SIPA course (Emerging Technologies)

CSAM detection and platform safety (paper)

Evaluated tradeoffs in automated child safety detection systems, examining moderation accuracy, regulatory obligations, and enforcement challenges

Written for a Columbia SIPA course (AI: A Survey for Policymakers)

YouTube Creator Economy

Led the APAC workstream of a published multi-country study on YouTube's creator economy across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Economist/consultant at Oxford Economics, Singapore

Uber Women's Economic Opportunity

Produced a published study on ride-hailing's economic impact on women in South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), whereby the India report was cited by Minister Smriti Irani to inform national workforce policy.

Economist/consultant at Oxford Economics, Singapore

SHEIN's Economic Impact

Delivered economic impact research on SHEIN's presence across EMEA markets for senior commercial stakeholders.

Economist/consultant at Oxford Economics, Singapore

The Power of News: Measuring the Impact of Trade War Headlines on Tech Stock Prices

Designed an original NLP sentiment model, and linked econometric analysis, to quantify how media headlines influenced tech equity markets during the 2019 trade war.

Built and written as a part of my Economics Honors thesis for Yale-NUS College.

The Green Deal Glow-Up: Do the EU's Emission Rules Hit Different Inside and Outside the Union?

Estimated a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model in R across 288 country-year observations to evaluate an EU agricultural emissions policy.

Built and analyzed for a Columbia SIPA course (Data Analysis for Policy Research Using R)

Analyzing What Makes NYC's Airbnb Superheats Using Python

Used Python to analyze over 50,000 Airbnb listings across NYC to determine the "ideal Airbnb" conditions which would eventually become a superhost.

Built and analyzed for an NYU course (Data Bootcamp: Python)