For more information about Boon Wai, please see: https://bit.ly/orbital22-mentorship (slide 38)
If you would like to be mentored by him, please add a reply below, with the following details:
Your particulars: Team name + Student name + Contact method (Email and other messaging tools)
Your materials: Proposal + Poster + Video
A personalized message: Why should the mentor pick your team?
Team name: TheGrumpyNUSFreshman
Student name: Tan Li Thai Sean & Tan Kai Min, Russell
Email: lts_tan@u.nus.edu & e0725120@u.nus.edu
Telegram id: @Lieutenantsean & @russelltankaimin2000
Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/154hB_wAx-AVPAfgzZ59qTVdeAZOEGSGu?usp=sharing
Our first attempt at building an interactive Figma prototype of PlanNUS (our mobile app name):
https://www.figma.com/proto/SXhEjNftLSG23t3oRbmvV7/PlanNUS?node-id=2594%3A5999&scaling=scale-down&page-id=243%3A1&starting-point-node-id=2594%3A5982
Dear Sir, we are developing a mobile application that helps NUS students to keep their student life organised.
Many freshmen in NUS have struggled to adapt to the transition from high school to university, given the increased level of freedom and high workload, which may be overwhelming to begin with. Moreover, we struggle with Module Registration as we may not be aware of any optimal timetable schedules when planning for registration. The application will help freshmen and even seniors to simplify the process with a click of a button.
The function generates a timetable suitable for the student according to his/her needs. If the student is not satisfied with the current configuration, he/she can regenerate until no feasible timetable is found. It utilises traditional A.I known as the SAT solver to find an optimal feasible timetable configuration, if possible. So far we have not found any mobile applications that utilises SAT solvers which could be a much faster alternative than the conventional timetable planner. If it works it could potentially be a game changer for NUS students, especially freshmen. Moreover, we have a to-do list integrated to our calendar where students can view their most urgent tasks.
Logging a task does not necessarily mean that the student would proactively take action, an alarm feature could remind the student a specified duration before the actual submission deadline. LumiNUS (NUS digital learning platform that supports a variety of e-learning applications) logs our uncompleted task but does not remind us of deadlines via notifications. There is a mobile application version of the platform which is poorly designed (e.g. Constantly crashes, no notifications for deadlines – essentially unusable and we normally use the website version instead).
We will be using Android studio, Java, Firebase and Python(to run the solver). Russell has research experience whereas I tinker with operating systems and thus we are new to Android development and Software Engineering in general but we are fast learners and we feel that Orbital is also a good place for us to step out of our comfort zone to try newer technologies. We would highly value your expertise in Android development and unit testing. We are looking forward to learning a lot from you throughout the mentorship and are hoping to gain insights on how to improve our project. Thank you.
Hello Mr Boon, am Rui Jie, and I am partnered with Yujie, to form group JieJie, seeking to create a mobile application for NUS campus living, called hALLinOne!
Team name: JieJie
Project name: hALLinOne
Student names: Koh Rui Jie and Zhou Yujie
Email:
koh.ruijie123@gmail.com
yujiezhou280100@gmail.com
Telegram:
@ruijiek, @hiimyj
Our materials:
Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NY9feg-SGSvKaNkErlEau9CVdMTl7aMJIBKN05JgYK4/edit?usp=sharing
Poster:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_X9PUx8YKFBsxWYpAWJpqTxH7oajPPvZ/view?usp=sharing
Video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDYvZPCrU_2sUtyU3233DJ2GE-iLOeEI/view?usp=sharing
Our project seeks to centralise and facilitate the bookings of common facilities in student accommodations in NUS, and also have a social function for “jios”. We discovered that currently, block chats are being used to book these facilities such as the lounge, or to ask people to clear their laundry in the washing machines or dryers for others to use, which we find ineffective. Hence, we propose the all-in-one “hALLinOne” mobile application to address this.
Personal message:
Good day to you Mr Boon, we are team hALLinOne! Seeing some of your experiences, we would love to be working alongside and receiving guidance from you. As we are building a mobile application that can actually be used by students staying in residences, which we find that while it has been attempted in our hall, has not really come to fruition. Hence, we need our application to perform to the best that it can, and thus we would love to have your mentorship and expertise in testing and performance optimization to help us achieve the standard we strive for. Our team is trying to learn as much as we can, in both front and back end, and we hope that with your experience and guidance, we will be able to complete this Orbital project over summer!
Team Name: StuBid
Student names:
Bransome Tan Yi Hao (e0726931@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @brannn99)
Anshumaan Tyagi (e0866249@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @a_tgi)
Contact number: 92249908
Materials:
Proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fVE8FFNoI2J-sIPS9SXGie7d7_dQdOA5/view?usp=sharing
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gj_dEHWjO2VDzqggzhYuGLluOrxK9GNX/view?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KqJ_6iyjLgU58QEkspPhcmlIXo-MkWWs/view?usp=sharing
Hello Mr Boon,
We are StuBid (Year 1 CS and IS students), also known as ‘Student Bidders’ who aims to innovate a one-stop mobile application (Similar to trading marketplace like Carousell) to allow students from all Singapore Universities to conveniently buy or sell unwanted items online through an anonymous bidding system.
The main theme of StuBid is ‘Anonymity’ which allows students to maintain their privacy and confidentiality, before/during the bidding process. Sellers can auction off their items to potential buyers, while buyers can submit their bid according to their preferred budget. When the final bid is accepted between the Seller and Buyer (Winning Bidder), the ‘Anonymity’ profile by both students will be released to each other (Contact details/information etc) where further transaction can take place.
Moreover, we realise that there is currently no online platform catered specifically for students in NUS or other universities to be able to buy/sell unwanted items. Therefore, StuBid not only serves as a marketplace for students, but also provide much needed convenience, assurance and freedom for students who wish to sell/buy items on an online platform.
We are highly motivated and hardworking individuals who have good interest in mobile development and other related applications. While we lack experience in software development, we are willing to put in our utmost effort to learn along the way. We wish to create a holistic and scalable application that can make a positive impact, as well as meeting the needs of our users. Our main goal is to learn something new, develop something cool, as well as having a fun, meaningful and memorable time together throughout the programme.
We strongly believe that your invaluable experience in mobile app development at Tiktok will help propel our project forward in the right direction by guiding us on best practices and building a great product! Aside from software development, we also look up to you as a mentor for possible career and industry advice in the future.
Lastly, feel free to contact us if our project resonates with you and we would be happy to schedule a call with you to discuss further. We are genuinely excited to make this project a reality and we hope that you will consider our team as we look forward to your mentorship and guidance!
Thank you and wish you a fruitful week ahead!
Bransome and Anshumaan
Team Name: W
Project Name: Chattoku
Team Members: Farrel Dwireswara Salim & Elbert Benedict
Contacts:
Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1pi_rw4Nz5ELt7-0Lf49ROy57ZPOkTHDo
Dear Mr. Boon Wai Hoong,
We are searching for a mentor to guide us through our journey in Orbital 2022. Our team aims to create a mobile application that will act as a discussion platform for people who share an interest in Japanese Anime. Additionally, this application will also have an anime recommendation system which we plan to build using machine learning.
With your expertise in mobile application development and your experience in the tech industry, we believe that we will gain many valuable insights which are essential for the development of our application.
If our project captures your interest, feel free to reach us via the contact details above. We are looking forward to having you as our mentor.
Thank you for reading!
Regards,
Farrel & Elbert
You can view our project here: Proposal, Poster, Video
Hello Boon Wai,
We are Team planlah (5216) consisting of Jotham and Akash - Year 1 Computer Science students who are passionate about software engineering, machine learning and entrepreneurship. Jotham is currently interning as a data engineer at TikTok’s E-Commerce team who is strongly passionate and has prior experience in machine learning research, while Akash is an ardent developer who has experimented with a lot of technology stacks and infrastructure tooling. Our project seeks to combine both of our interests - we hope to build a social media application that leverages machine learning.
Our proposed application revolves around a personalized recommendation system for activities and places targeted towards groups of friends, in light of the recent changes in SIngapore’s COVID restrictions. Users would be able to create “outings”, groups with their jio-ed friends and family, and get recommended places and activities to do based on the group’s combined interests and location.
We aim to expand this into a commercializable social media application for Singaporeans where we would partner with local F&B and recommend their shops, and then give discounts to interested jio-ers. By allowing Singaporeans to post reviews of the places and activities after visiting them on their social media accounts, we ultimately aim for our product to be the premier Singaporean social media application for social outings.
Our reason for choosing you as our mentor is the wealth of knowledge and industry experience that you possess about the mobile industry, something we are hoping to break into through our social media application. To that end, we would be honored to have your mentorship and advice to help shape our long-term goals of building a commercially viable market strategy for the application.
Thank you for taking your time to read this message, and we look forward to being your mentees.
Regards,
Jotham and Akash
Team Name: Focat (5001)
Team Members:
Chia Yun Rong (Email: e0726950@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @yunrong)
Lim Jia Yi Venus (Email: e0775653@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @veenuuus)
Links to the project materials:
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vdZ7aGngZ0KxI86qr9NWiPJacvyxbDe/view?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TGBXktSJMU_t8y5HA2QlCAqS_8dgSNUG/view?usp=sharing
Hello Wai Hoong!
We are Venus and Yun Rong from Team Focat, Year 1 Computer Science students who are passionate about software engineering and building reliable and scalable mobile apps. Our project is a productivity mobile app, inspired by a similar one called Forest. As users of Forest ourselves, we have discovered many flaws which we aim to fix with Focat and to further develop features that we wished Forest had. We also aim to publish our app on the app store after Orbital to hopefully provide students with a better productivity mobile app to use.
As it would be our first time working on a mobile app development project at this scale on our own, we hope to be able to leverage upon your vast experience in mobile apps to guide us in our development, especially so because we have no experience in architecture patterns, performance tracking and optimization, targeted refactoring, and unit testing on mobile apps.
Looking forward to learning from you and thank you for your time! :D
Best Regards,
Venus and Yun Rong (Focat)
Team Name: Castaway
Team Members: Yeoh Yong Jie, Yuvaraj Kumaresan
Email: e0774046@.u.nus.edu, e0758665@u.nus.edu
Telegram: @yyj02, @yuviboi
Materials:
Proposal Link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsUZr4tNVs2X1kVsRsk52LC7r5ETMsmU/view?usp=sharing)
Poster Link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/17B6X6iJmjfYTUUc5QBk4Bm62KBMFKrXl/view?usp=sharing)
Video Link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/17PxrV91tuJq_9WlhllDn8NDoMn4Hd3T7/view?usp=sharing)
Summary:
Castaway is a podcast app that serves you podcast content anywhere, anytime, including live content.
Personalised Message:
Hi Mr Hoong,
We are Castaway, we are creating a podcast app that supports livestream feature to allow people to enjoy podcast easily on their phone.
We are a team of highly motivated individuals and we want to explore new things, which is why we chose to attempt implementing livestream feature in our app. You can trust our team as we have experience in software development and have used Flutter and Firebase in the past, which will be the backbone of our app.
Our team believes that your expertise in mobile app development will be valuable to us. Our team is building a mobile app that has nice interface and works seamlessly, and we hope that we can achieve this together. With your guidance, I think we can polish the mobile app more and learn a lot about the best practices in mobile app designing from you. We will have a fun time working together as it is something all of us are passionate about.
We hope to hear from you if our project piqued your interest, we would be happy to discuss this project in further details. Let us make this project successful together!
Thank you for the opportunity!
Yong Jie and Yuvaraj
