Open source projects

• Wordle Solver

  An open source tool that helps people who struggle with vocabulary enjoy the game of Wordle. The solution applies unsupervised learning and does not target a specific Wordle implementation.

• Memespector-GUI

  A cross-platform and open source tool with a graphical user interface that enables social science researchers to use computer vision APIs and open source models to enrich image data on Windows, macOS and Linux.

• AppTraffic

  An open source tool that helps researchers to capture and analyse raw and decrypted HTTPS network traffic of mobile apps. The tool attempts to exact all key-value pairs from XMLs, JSONs, forms and HTML headers, identify their destinations and check for associations with potentially privacy-invading trackers.

• AppInspect

  An open source tool that helps researchers extract knowledge from decompiled Android apps (APKs). The tool transforms all the decompiled resources of Android apps into the Parquet format and runs queries through Spark.

Employment

• Researcher, Special Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1187 “Media of Cooperation” of the University of Siegen funded by German Research Foundation (contract 2020-2024)

  Responsibilities: Development of research software tools to capture and analyse the data of mobile apps and social media.

• Software developer and technical consultant, Proton Electronics Company (2010-2024)

  Responsibilities: Development of software products for vehicle inspection and building automation.

Conference presentations

• Pre-Processing Android Application PacKages (APKs) for Static Analysis at Scale at The Seventh Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering (RSECon23), September 2023, UK
• Journey of Building a Wordle Solver at the 73rd PyData London meetup, April 2023, UK
• Cyberattacks on (and the defence of) Civil Referendum 2019 at g0v Summit 2020, Taiwan
• Gay People on the Radar? — A signal analysis of Jack'd and Blued at Queer Asia 2018, UK

Submissions to UN treaty bodies

• Joint Submission of Hongkongers in Britain (HKB) and others on Exclusion of British Nationals (Overseas) from “Home” Fee Status in Higher Education to Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its Review of the UK at its 77th session (February 2025)
• Submissions of Macau Research Group to Human Rights Committee for its Review of Macau (China) at its 135th session (May 2022) and its Adoption of List of Issues at its 135th session (May 2020)
• Submission of Hongkongers in Britain (HKB) to Human Rights Committee for its Review of Hong Kong at its 135th session (May 2022)

Opinion pieces

• 'Nobody should be distracted by Xi Jinping's visit — it's not the same as Hong Kong, whatever he says' co-authored with Joshua Wong published in Independent (December 2019)
• 'How long before "Article 23" security law makes it to Hong Kong?' published in Hong Kong Free Press (August 2015)

• Director, Hongkongers in Britain (2021-present)
• Convenor, Macau Research Group (2020-present)

• MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures from University of Warwick with Distinction (2018)

  Dissertation: Appcestry — A Tool for the Study of Mobile Application Similarities

• MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS University of London with Merit (2019)

  Dissertation: The Legality of State Surveillance under European Convention on Human Rights and UK Law — the Right to Privacy & Interception of Communications