As global warming intensifies, our understanding of heat and its management become increasingly important. I'm currently interested in the regulatory politics and history of the science of extreme heat.

I published a short piece on Qatar's air-conditioning spectacles in the leadup to the 2022 FIFA World Cup for Limn magazine.

I am interested in the relationship between computing and administrative power, particularly in Asia.

My first public presentation on this topic was an invited talk for the National Archives of Singapore in October 2024.

SISIR originated as the Industrial Research Unit, with Colombo plan assistance during the Cold War. Over time it expanded its work to cover standardisation, metrology, and industrial information services.

I began looking into this incredibly important, but often overlooked, institution as a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at Singapore's National Library Board (NLB).

Some early publications to emerge from this include an account of its origin in the NLB's journal Chapters on Asia, as well as short pieces in the NLB's publication BiblioAsia on the cultural politics of making crash helmets mandatory, Singapore's “national souvenir,” the gold-plated orchid RISIS, and the life of Dr. Lee Kum Tatt.

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Policy (CompCoRe) is a comparative study of national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective.

It consists of teams from sixteen countries coming together to try to understand why countries varied so enormously in their approaches to the pandemic. I am part of CompCoRe's Singapore team.

We published an open access research article in the journal East Asian Science, Technology and Society.