about

Hi, I’m Kok Rui¹, a CS student at the National University of Singapore.

I’m currently:

finishing up my final semester at NUS
planning for my engagement / wedding
learning to live life with diabetes

I’ll soon (Jan 2025 onwards) be a Software Engineer at Jane Street.

I’ve previously been a / an:

Software Engineering Intern at Jane Street
Security Software Engineering Intern at Databricks
Software Engineering Intern at ByteDance / TikTok
Software Engineering Intern at Trail of Bits
Open Source Fellow at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) via the MLH Fellowship

In NUS, I’ve been a / an:

Coreteam Member of NUS Hackers
Maintainer of NUSMods
Teaching Assistant for Algorithms, Program ming, Software Engineering, and Functional Programming
Undergrad Researcher in Prof Manuel Rigger’s TEST Lab of the PL/SE Group
High School Researcher in the Jedd Group of the Temasek Life Sciences Lab
High School Researcher in the Bioinformatics & Drug Design Group

I spend most of my time working on things under the umbrella of CS. I used to compete in Security CTFs and Hackathons which somewhat reflects my CS interests, but I’m open to anything that I find cool.

Back in High School, I was also heavily involved in Model United Nations, where I participated in more than 35 conferences in every academic capacity possible, and where I got the chance to visit new countries and stay in weird places, including the J.W. Marriott Beijing (for free) and a rented room with a cockroach problem in Kuala Lumpur (for a fee). All that remains is my love for travel.

Other things I like:

GeoGuessr
Ball Sports (Basketball, Table Tennis, Football, Baseball)
British Quiz Shows (Only Connect, Countdown, University Challenge)
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Theatre & Musicals
Puzzle Hunts
My Partner

My first name has two words, Kok Rui. My last name is Wong. “Kok” rhymes with “lock” / “rock” / “dock”, and “Rui” sounds exactly like “ray”, but it’s not a big deal to me and I appreciate any attempt to pronounce my name. ↩︎