Education
M.Eng (Research)
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Expected 2025 Sep to 2026 Sep
- Cumulative GPA: 5.00/5.00
- AI Singapore Accelerated Masters Scholar (2024 Sep - 2026 Sep)
- DSO-AISG Research Award (2025 Sep - 2026 Sep)
B.Eng (Computer Science, Minor in AI)
Singapore University of Technology and Design
2021 Sep to 2025 May
- Cumulative GPA: 4.70/5.00, Honors with Highest Distinction
- SUTD Undergraduate Merit Scholar (2021 Sep - 2024 Aug)
Global Exchange Program
Aalto University
Finland, Jan 2024 to Jun 2025
- Awarded the KKH Global Exchange Award (2024 Spring)
- Exchange Student under Aalto University’s School of Science
| Relevant Courses | Grade |
|---|
| 99.512 Mathematics for AI – Postgraduate | A |
| 51.504 Machine Learning – Postgraduate | A |
| 50.050 Discrete Mathematics and Algorithm Design | A |
| 50.035 Computer Vision | A |
| 50.007 Machine Learning - Undergraduate | A |
| 50.005 Elements of Software Construction | A- |
| 01.401 Capstone Project (2 Terms) | A- |
| 01.117 Brain-Inspired Computing and it’s Applications | A |
| CS-E4890 Deep Learning | Exchange |
| ELEC-E5550 Statistical Natural Language Processing | Exchange |
| CS-E4800 Artificial Intelligence | Exchange |
Work Experience
2025 January – March
- Built a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow to produce syllabus-accurate outputs, securing a Pre-Seed fund from Iterative VC (Winter 2025).
- Built a data processing pipeline by combining open-source Computer Vision models with LLMs, contributing 8,700 high quality questions to Supabase for RAG.
- Deployed DeepSeek R1 models to Google Cloud Run to solve Singapore GCE A-Level math problems, increasing the accuracy of the final outputs by 36%.
LMM Research Assistant, Social AI Lab (SUTD)
2024 June – December
- Web scraped using Selenium and Beautiful Soup to collect more than 28,000 comics for analysis.
- Recruited and managed 8 participants to evaluate 2,800 comics using Label Studio to assess large multimodal models’ (LMMs such as Qwen2-VL, LLaVa-OV, GPT4o and Gemini) ability to comprehend humor.
LLM Research Intern, DSO National Laboratories
2023 August – December
- Applied the Graph of Thoughts reasoning workflow with LLMs to detect vulnerable code within a 3-layer call stack, reducing incurred API (ChatGPT) costs by 25%.
- Integrated Llama 2 and Code Llama with LangChain to perform Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), further improving contextual understanding.
Technical Skills: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Java
Publications
Conference Papers
43rd Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, South Korea (ICML 2026)
Yuriel Ryan, Ip Hei Man, Adriel Kuek, Paul Pu Liang, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Suzhou, China (EMNLP 2025)
Yuriel Ryan*, Rui Yang Tan*, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
* co-first authors
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