[ RYAN YEO ]

AI RESEARCH @ DIS

[ ABOUT ]

Hi! I'm Ryan, an AI engineer based in Singapore. I break things professionally and build things obsessively.

I'm an AI researcher and engineer based in Singapore, focused on accessibility AI, LLM fine-tuning, and cybersecurity.

Right now I'm serving my national service in Singapore as an AI researcher for malware analysis. Currently having a ton of fun learning about cybersecurity and networking.

Next up: Computer Science + Stats at NUS

// who i am
6x HACKATHON WINNER VIBE CODER AUTODIDACT
// next up
CS @ NUS
// also into
ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THEATRE & MUSICALS CHESS

[ PROJECTS ]

Built a CoreML accessibility app in Singapore that detects buses for visually impaired users and works fully offline for low-latency feedback.

We co-designed the interface with 30+ weekly beta users from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH), focusing on spatial audio and haptic cues in real conditions.

Backed by $20k in OGP Build for Good funding, the project was featured on Vulcan Post and Money FM 89.3.

Accessibility · Swift · CoreML · Real-time detection

Led LLM fine-tuning in Singapore by adapting a quantized Llama 3 model on MIMIC-III radiology notes with Unsloth and quantization-aware training to reduce clinician cognitive load.

The project won 1st place in the junior category at NSC's High Performance Computing Innovation Challenge 2023.

Unsloth · LoRA · High Performance Computing

Built an experimental OS that replaced standard storage, scheduling, and packing strategies with graph neural networks, PPO reinforcement learning, and variational autoencoders.

A Rust data plane kept the system runnable while an AI control plane generated speculative state proposals.

The project was a NUS Hack&Roll 2026 hackathon winner in Singapore (Most Overengineered Use of AI).

Rust · Systems Architecture · Overengineering

Built a browser extension that uses financial incentives to reduce digital distraction.

Powered by the Open Payments API on the Interledger Protocol, users deposit funds before focus sessions; bypassing blocked sites incurs real costs into a shared pool while successful focus earns dividends.

Won 1st place for the Interledger theme at Hackomania 2025.

Plasmo · Recharts · React · Tailwind

Built a production-grade Whisper transcription API and summarization backend for hour-long bilingual meetings (EN/JA).

The async pipeline handles long-duration audio, applies speaker diarization at >90% accuracy, and grounds summaries against external agendas and past minutes to reduce hallucinations.

Whisper · Silero VAD · FastAPI

[ WORK ]

Cyber Defence Test and Experimentation Centre (CyTEC), DIS

01

AI Research

[Jan 2026 - Present]

▸ Conducting malware analysis AI research in Singapore for cyber defence programs at CyTEC and DIS.

E2BMalware Analysis

The Pique Lab

02

AI Engineer Intern

[Jun 2025 - Sep 2025]

▸ Built a LangGraph agentic workflow that generated varied exam questions from an existing question bank.

LangGraphGCP

DSTA

03

AI Engineer Intern

[Feb 2025 - May 2025]

▸ Worked as a DSTA AI intern in Singapore and trained an EfficientNet model for drone detection from RF signals.

Signal ProcessingGPS SpoofingRF Analysis

CSIT

04

Software Engineer Intern

[Aug 2024 - Jan 2025]

▸ Developed microservices for a recommendation system during a CSIT software engineering internship in Singapore.

Next.jsSpring BootCI/CD

Data Science Intern

[Mar 2024 - Aug 2024]

▸ Completed a CSIT data science internship in Singapore focused on NLP and information retrieval by fine-tuning bi-encoders on multilingual news corpora.

ElasticsearchNLPbi-encoders