About Nicholas Ko
I majored in mathematical, computational and statistical sciences at Yale-NUS College. I am currently employed in Singapore. Previously, I interned at Adatos.AI, where I worked on satellite image analysis. I am also a former research assistant at Yale-NUS College under Associate Professor Michiel van Breugel. I am grateful to all who taught me in each of these places.
Right now, I’m interested in operations research (OR) because I think there’s rigourous math and useful modelling techniques there. Another reason that drew me to OR is because the field has managed to stay out of the limelight of popular media for now. I am a bit of a contrarian.
On the personal front, I have been a jazz enthusiast ever since I heard Bill Evan’s “Portrait in Jazz” album in 2014. My favourite album is “Stan Getz & Bill Evans”, favourite track of the album is “Grandfather’s Waltz”.
A bit on my academic background below.
Courses
| Course | Semester |
|---|---|
| 📚 Stochastic Processes and Models | (Spring 2024) |
| 📚 Generalised Linear Models | (Fall 2023) |
| 📚 Statistical Inference | (Spring 2023) |
| 📚 Probability | (Fall 2022) |
| 📚 Linear Algebra | (Spring 2022) |
| 📚 Programming for Data Science | (Fall 2022) |
| 📚 Introduction to Data Science | (Spring 2021) |
| 📚 Data Analysis and Visualisation in R | (Spring 2024) |
| 📚 Modelling and Optimisation (Intro to Operations Research) | (Spring 2023) |
| 📚 Introductory Data Structures and Algorithms | (Fall 2023) |
| 📚 Graph Theory | (Spring 2023) |
| 📚 Finite Geometry | (Spring 2024) |
| 📚 Software Engineering | (Spring 2023) |
| 📚 Introduction to Computer Science | (Spring 2022) |
I am grateful to Jami Gibbs for this website design.
The projects listed on the site were my submissions for some Yale-NUS classes I attended.
ChatGPT Use:
- Site Layout: ChatGPT used to write code for the layout
- Project Code: No ChatGPT was used (was not released yet at that time)
- Pages: No ChatGPT was used for this ‘About’ page