I am pursuing a dual B.S. major in Chemical Engineering (process track) and BEM (Business Economics & Management) at 
. I am a Michelin-trained cook, having trained under chefs and at restaurants with a combined 42 Michelin stars. My interests include food science, manufacturing, materials science, macroeconomics, and political economics.
2024 - 2028
B.S., dual major in Chemical Engineering (process track) and Business Economics & Management (BEM). GPA: 3.8 / 4.0. Relevant coursework includes Hedge Funds (BEM 114). Current and past campus activities include Caltech Chamber Singers, chamber music, Glee Club, and Out of Context a cappella.
2019 - 2024
A-Levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Served as a School Monitor and Admissions Ambassador, received the Science Communication Award, composed for and conducted a 50-person choir, and was deputy concertmaster of the orchestra.
Summer 2026
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company (Towngas) - Green Fuels & Chemicals
Authored a ten-section screening/pre-FEED design converting a douzha-led food-processing-waste portfolio and conditioned bauxite residue into light olefins through supercritical water gasification, bi-reforming and OXZEO synthesis. I defined ten independently isolatable 300 t/day hydrothermal trains feeding shared gas-cleaning and conversion units, closed the mass and carbon balances for a 3,000 t/day complex, and screened annual production of 42.35–55.45 kt. I built a four-scenario, 20-year China techno-economic model that showed commodity conversion alone was insufficient and that sustained 55% carbon efficiency plus contracted waste-service income materially strengthened financeability. I also developed the feed-acceptance, siting, HAZOP, analytical, certification, salt and chloride-control plans; designed an energy cascade reducing purchased-energy equivalent to 260 GJ/day per train; and supported engineering for a new US$30 million green-fuels plant in Foshan using Towngas's operating Jungar Banner green-methanol plant as a reference case.
Read the Towngas SCWG-OXZEO case studySeptember 2024 - Present
Caltech
Teach Caltech students through practical cooking and food-science demonstrations in Tom Mannion's cooking class.
July 2025 - August 2025
UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute, iCAMP (Alternative Meat & Protein)
Screened fetal-bovine-serum-free growth media to reduce the cost and animal dependence of cultivated-meat culture. I also built and tested 32 scaffold combinations, using Texture Profile Analysis to judge how closely each reproduced real meat texture.
March 2024 - April 2024
NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM)
Invited by Professor Konstantin Novoselov (2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics) to work under Dr Maxim Rybin. I grew graphene by Chemical Vapour Deposition, tuned the growth conditions and characterized the resulting films.
September 2023 - March 2024
The King's School, Canterbury
Helping younger students in school with iGCSE sciences and maths.
November 2022 - April 2023
cook.enterprise
Managed and led a team of 17 students competing in the Young Enterprise UK competition, winning the Kent Finals Best Company award. We created a student-centric cookbook inspired by works such as Modernist Cuisine, researching novel ways to prepare food quickly and microwave-cooking techniques suited to a busy student, earning £5,850 in revenue.
Open the cook.enterprise cookbookJuly 2021 - Present
Michelin-starred restaurants
Ran full service in high-pressure, zero-error kitchens across over a dozen Michelin-starred restaurants and chefs holding over 42 Michelin stars combined, including The Fat Duck, Ecriture, The Clove Club, Core by Clare Smyth, Sushiyoshi, Muse by Tom Aikens, and Frog by Adam Handling.
Selected work
Process engineering
A public screening/pre-FEED design for ten 300 t/day hydrothermal trains, closed balances, a 42.35–55.45 kt/year light-olefin envelope and four 20-year commercial scenarios.
Chemical Engineering
Tested ethanol as a substitute for methanol across acid- and base-catalysed biodiesel routes using waste cooking oil, reaching more than 75% conversion.
Finance & NLP
A market-neutral FinBERT strategy using earnings-call sentiment, with near-zero beta and a statistically significant 1.18% monthly alpha in the study period.
Young Enterprise
A student-focused cookbook and the Kent Finals Best Company winner.
Contact
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