leadership

Through the beginning and the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic (Jan. to Dec. 2020), I served as the President of Engineering Graduate Student Council (EGSC) - the student government for the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Columbia Unversity - leading a team of 40 board members to serve the 3,700 graduate engineering students. In a time of unprecedented crisis, the responsibility was on us to maintain a sense of normalcy and community amongst the students in the Engineering School. In response, I led the board to quickly pivot to virtual programmings, and organized weekly (sometimes more frequent) events throughout the year of 2020, such as virtual alumni mixers, career talks and game nights. Additionally, in order to bridge communications between the students, the engineering school and the University, we organized multiple town halls with the school leadership and health service directors to address student concerns regarding their social, academic and professional lives.

Before leading the student government of the entire Engineering School, I co-founded and chaired the graduate student council for the Electrical Engineering department from July 2018 to Dec 2019. Since its inception, Graduate Student Electrical Engineering at Columbia (GEEC) has been one of the most active student groups in the Engineering School, and continues serve the 400 graduate Electrical Engineers today.

My passion for leadership started early. During middle/high school in Hwa Chong Instituion (Singapore), I served on the student council for the Hwa Chong Institution Boarding School (HCIBS) as the Event chair (2009) and as the President (2010), working with a team of 10 to promote wellbeings of the 600 students living in the boarding school.