Experience & leadership

Starting things, helping them last.

Groups and projects I started or ran in high school.

High school

Peer Listening Group

Founder & Organizer

  • Started a peer listening and discussion group; membership grew from 8 to 22 over one semester.
  • Organized weekly discussions and arranged guidance from a school counsellor.
  • Shared supportive resources with members through WeChat.

A peer-led student group.

Initiative · Facilitation · Organizing

Grade 10

Roommate Conflict Mediation

Volunteered to help

  • Stepped in on my own initiative to help roommates work through a dormitory conflict.
  • Organized conversations with everyone involved and helped them agree on shared living rules.

Mediation · Communication

Global Literature Symposium

Discussion lead

  • Led a symposium discussion of Yu Hua's novel To Live (《活着》).
  • Took part in analysing the text and in preparing and presenting the material.

Literary analysis · Presenting

High school · 3 years

Academic Committee Member

Class academic representative, all three years of high school

  • Organized study groups and helped classmates with their studies.

Class role

Middle school

History Subject Representative

Class representative for History

  • Collected homework and assisted the teacher.

Class role

Research & presentations

Course and independent work. It carries less weight than my engineering work, but shows how I think and communicate.

Student Housing & Safety Advocacy

Researcher & presenter

  • Researched housing and safety resources for international students at Canadian universities.
  • Compiled the findings into an advocacy presentation of about five minutes.

Research · Advocacy · Presenting

Will Economics Determine the Future of AI?

Course presentation materials

  • Slide deck and speaking script for a course on Bitcoin and AI.
  • Covers AI investment, economic incentives, infrastructure and policy constraints.

Economics × technology · Argument structure