Student stories

Internships aren't handed out. They're earned.

Two students, two paths. Both started with projects.

Research path · Sean
Chest X-rays: three normal cases on top, three pneumonia cases below

Normal (top) vs. pneumonia (bottom): the chest X-ray data he worked with.

7 projects.
One research direction.
Research path

Sean

From physics to AI research in biotech.

Start

Physics at NUS. No AI background.

Explore

7 projects across finance, NLP, computer vision and biotech.

Focus

AI + biotech. In a medical-imaging project, he found that simple data augmentation beat CycleGAN for pneumonia detection.

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Now

AI researcher, Osaka University.

Industry path

CJ

From computer science to health-tech AI.

Industry path · CJ
A retina scan on the left and the blood-vessel map a model traced from it on the right

A retina scan (left) and the blood vessels her model traced from it (right).

5 projects.
One health-tech internship.
Start

First-year computer science at NUS.

Explore

5 projects, plus two weeks on site in Cambridge.

Focus

Medical imaging. She built retinal vessel segmentation models that work with limited data.

Now

Remote intern at a Boston health-tech startup, building computer-vision models for camera-based health monitoring.

The startup reviewed shortlisted profiles and chose her.

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