Tuesday, December 31, 2019

quick summary 2019

[oct18] Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

[oct18] Supervised 2 DCPE students in International Programming Contest and won Special Prize at Japan.

[oct18] Supervised 3 DASE students in SP Group Cogito Ideation Competition and won 2nd runner up award.

[oct18] Supervised multidisciplinary team team DCPE, DEEE, DID in AWS Cloud Technology Hackathon and won 1st runner up award and Visitor's Choice Award at MBSCC.

[oct18] Secured AWS to feature DCPE student for PR launched on youtube for AWS Educate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dprIkNit_F0&t=92 

[Oct18] Mentored 1FT student for International Science Enterprise Challenge 2018 “National Round”. Student (and team) won First Prize.

[nov18] Inducted into AWS Academy Leadership Council (global)

[nov18] Supervised 2 DASE students in Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Challenge and selected as top10 finalist.

[Nov18] Coached 1FT students and was featured on Straits Times “Singapore Poly students' tech solutions to help Parkinson's disease patients and the elderly”. 

[dec18] Supervised multidisciplinary EA teams consist of DEEE DARE DME in SUTD Design Odyssey;1 team won Best Team Award and one student won Best Speaker Award

[Jan19] Trained students for WSS Cloud Computing. 1 student emerged with Medallion of Excellence.

[Feb19] Supervised 3 DCPE students for Airbus-SSTA HADR Challenge. Student team won second prize, and was invited to exhibit at GSTC 2019.

[mar19] Secured sponsorship from AWS for Overseas Study Trip for EEE students to Taylor’s University at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to show & tell the solution developed in hackathon to an audience of about 1000 students from various IHLs.

[mar19] Supervised student in internship project and he was sponsored by EOS, NTU to technical exchange at NASA JPL, California, USA.

[mar19] ECG and mentored PTN students and were awarded SP Model Student Award 2019

[mar19] Supervised five SP teams and two were shortlisted as top 5 among 70 teams based in Singapore in AWS Hackday 2019 Singapore.

[Apr19] Invited to be speaker and spoke at AWS Summit Singapore (Student Track).

[Apr19] Supervised EA 2FT students in AWS DeepRacer League Singapore, defended their pole positions  #4, #6, #45 in a gruesome race on the track with their Reinforced Learning (RL) Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV).

[Apr19] Mentored student for university scholarship, was offered NUS EE with Engineering Scholars Programme, and promptly accepted.

[May19] Mentored student for university scholarship, was offered SUTD Global Distinguished Scholarship, and promptly accepted.

[May19] Invited to judge Tech For Good Coding Competitions in SG: Digital Wonderland.

[May19] Inducted into AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador Leadership Council, one of the 18 members globally, amongst peer from MIT, Havard. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-educate-announces-its-inaugural-cloud-ambassador-cohort/

[May19] Invited to speak at Fostering a Growth Mindset (GM) culture in the Faculty -Planning for Continuous Learning for professors from King Mongkut's University Thailand North Bangkok (KMUTNB).This is a The Growth Mindset Train-the-Trainer programme organized by LSC

[May19] Mentored studentfor TFI SUTD STEP Aviation Forum, team won First Prize.

[May19] Industry Visit to Google Data Center.

[May19] Mentored and prepared students for PSC Scholarship. A student accepted PSC Engineering Scholarship.

[Jun19] Secured Grab Singapore for student internship in AY1920S2

[Jun19] Mentored student for SUTD-Google Computer Science Summer Institute Extension Program (CSSIx), a two weeks of intensive, interactive, hands-on and fun programme at SUTD’s campus and Google’s Singapore office, and a project.

[Jun19] Supervised 2 teams of students in Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor Award. One team won commendation prize, another team shortlisted as finalist.
[Jul19] Supervised SP EEE student teams in CodeXtremeApps Hackathon Open Category, one team of EEE EA students won First Prize.

[Jul19] Supervised EEE EA student teams in Engineering Innovation Challenge, one team of EEE EA students won First Runner-up Prize.

[Jul19] Supervised EA student teams and shortlisted among top 20 finalist teams in IKEA Young Designer Award (YDA).

[Jul19] Recruited EEE and SoC students for WSS CC 2020, and started training sessions.

[Jul19] Mentored student and secured internship with Grab Singapore as Software Engineering Intern in AY1920S1.

[Sep19] Supervised students in Build On Singapore hackathon. Student teams won Champion, First Runner up, and Viewer's Choice Prizes.

[Sep19] Student teams featured on News Portal https://straitstimes.com/singapore/education/youth-draw-from-their-own-experiences-to-find-solutions-in-cross-institution

[Oct19] Supervised students in Hack Asia hackathon. Student teams won Second Place Prize.

[Nov19] Supervised students in SmartPoly hackathon. Student teams won First Runner up, and Second Runner Up Prizes.

[Dec19] Supervised students in Smart Nation + U hackathon. Student teams won Champion, First Runner up, and Special Mentioned Prizes.

[Dec19] Industry visit to Grab Internship open house