For more information about Ying Chen, please see: https://bit.ly/orbital22-mentorship (slide 19)
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: UnLockal
Student names : Bryan Ong, Tabriz Pahlavi
Email: e0860597@u.nus.edu(Bryan), e0725017@u.nus.edu(Tabriz)
Telegram: @bryanongjx, @TabrizPlv
Proposal, Poster, Presentation Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-ePgK6ZDbXeAAPch5lhWRcSVmZM0i-MW
Dear Ying Chen,
We are a team that has delved into the world of home-based businesses. Having done so, we have realised
that one major issue faced by these businesses is the lack of exposure online. As such, we have decided
to embark on a project to create UnLockal - a mobile application that serves as an online platform for
home-based businesses to promote themselves and facilitate their transactions. We hope to have you
onboard this journey with us as we feel that your field of experience will be crucial
to the success of UnLockal. More specifically, we feel that your specialisation in back-end solutions for
distributed systems and API design really caught our eye as we see it tying in very nicely with the design of our project.
We are highly motivated to continuously learn and improve ourselves along
the way in Orbital and we are excited to be able to learn from you during the development of this
project. We look forward to working with you! Thank you for your time!
Best Regard,
UnLockal
You can view our project here: Proposal, Poster, Video
Hello Ying Chen,
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 experience and industry insights that you have in software engineering from your 10 years at PayPal. As aspiring software engineers, we seek to learn industry best practices and improve our skills. To that end, we would be honored to have your mentorship and advice to help shape our long-term aims of reaching 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