Hi, I’m Austin 👋

I explore problems in physics, machine learning, and computational biology.

I am a student researcher in Singapore. I captained Team Singapore to the 2025 IYPT world championship and represented Singapore at ISEF and IOAI. My newest research, 3DICE, explores interpretable machine learning for drug–target interaction prediction.

Explore my work Latest research: 3DICE →

About

I like understanding why things work, especially when the answer involves a mix of theory, experiments, and computation. Outside research, I enjoy sharing physics with others and working on my clubs, communities such as Lumiere, and other random projects. I also play badminton and the erhu, am trying to learn juggling, and spend more time than I probably should solving crossword puzzles.

Affiliations

You may know me from

ISEF 2026

Delegate of Singapore

Representing Singapore at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2026

IOAI 2026

Member of Team Singapore

Representing Singapore at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence 2026

IYPT 2025

Team Singapore Captain

World Champions at the International Young Physicists' Tournament 2025

Raffles Physics Club

Chairperson

Making physics fun and accessible to all

Raffles Entrepreneurs' Network

Member

Student-led ventures and business competitions

RI Infocomm Club

Competitive Programming Trainer

Organising camps and training sessions for aspiring competitive programmers

Research

Bioinformatics / Drug Discovery Bioinformatics · 2026

3DICE: Interpretable 3D Cross-Modal Learning for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction

Published in Bioinformatics, 3DICE combines Uni-Mol and ESM-IF1 structural embeddings to model drug–protein relationships. It outperformed state-of-the-art models in accuracy, generalisability, and efficiency on DrugBank and KIBA, while highlighting influential atoms and protein residues for intrinsic interpretability.

Second Award in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron ISEF 2026.

Explore the research Read the published article View the ISEF project

Physics / Soft Robotics IYPT 2025

Comprehensive Analytical Modelling of Hysteretic Nonlinear Dynamics of a Pneumatic Air Muscle

Derived a superior nonlinear viscoelastic model for the McKibben Artificial Muscle that relieves over-reliance on black-box computational methods, modelling hysteresis.

8.00 points at IYPT, highest-scoring report.

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Physics / Fluid Dynamics IYPT 2025

Levitation of Liquid Layers via Dynamic Suppression of the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability and Associated Faraday Instability

Mapped the stability boundaries for vertically oscillated fluid layers levitating above air layers.

7.88 points at IYPT, second highest-scoring report.

Biology / Waste processing 2023

Factors Affecting Hermetia illucens in Digesting Food Waste and Quality of Frass Produced

This study tested how temperature and food waste composition affect Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) digestion and the quantity/quality of frass produced, across three controlled experimental stages.

Projects

SJPO Training 2026

Lumiere

A free, student-led community helping students prepare for the Singapore Junior Physics Olympiad through weekly lessons, notes, problem sets, worked solutions, and peer support. Brought to you by Raffles Physics Club and NYSingularity.

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