I'm a graduate student in chemistry at Harvard University working in the Jacobsen Group.
My primary research interests are in developing new catalytic reactions and understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of catalysis. As a training physical organic chemist, I am interested in learning and applying physical and computational tools to study the mechanism of reactions. Such tools include operando NMR and IR spectroscopy as well as DFT and wavefunction-based computations. I also rely heavily on programming, data science tools, and mathematics to automate and enhance experimental design and data analysis.
In addition to chemistry, I'm also interested in writing about science for a general audience and in the sociology of scientific research (see my blog posts). I also bake and cook, among other hobbies.
From 2017 to 2021 I was an undergraduate at Yale University, where I studied peptide-catalyzed reactions in the Miller Group. Prior to that I attended high school in Singapore after growing up in Penang, Malaysia.