Hu Bowen

• GPA: 3.98/4.00
• Diploma with Merit (7 module prizes; 3 top in modules)
• DSTA Polytechnic Digital Scholar
• Vice-President, NullSec (Cybersecurity Interest Group)

• Maintained an internal safety evaluation tool
• Researched and benchmarked attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems

Implemented Advent of Code solutions on an FPGA with Jane Street's DSL

• Wrote logic similar to the Game of Life by using shift registers and line buffers to represent a convolution window
• Achieved a 100x speedup relative to my naive solution in OCaml

Bare metal operating system from scratch

• Created my own bootloader in x86 assembly to load a C kernel in 32 bit mode
• Coded a rudimentary command parser and hardcoded a text based snake game into the kernel

Only Polytechnic student to attain Gold in NOAI 2026

• Answered 20 in-depth MCQs on various technical aspects of AI
• Wrote a gradient boosting regressor in Python and patched up a PyTorch U-NET implementation
• Implemented multi-head scaled dot product attention with PyTorch

AI competition testing across ASR, CV, NLP and RL

• Fine-tuned a YOLOv11 model with augmentations for better accuracy
• Implemented batching and `torch.compile` to improve speeds
• Trained a reinforcement learning agent to solve a Pacman-like game with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

National cybersecurity competition held over 3 days

• Configured Cisco firewalls to isolate a cloud environment from the internet
• Only competitor to successfully hack into a vulnerable website, placing us in first place for that component