Julius Choy

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My Story

Born in Hong Kong, educated in Singapore and Malaysia. Now I am back again in Hong Kong, right as everyone I knew was moving in the other direction. Currently re-learning Cantonese and Mandarin, I am a firm believer that Hong Kong’s story is not over yet. I am a risk-taker who relishes on following the road not taken. Bouncing back from adversity, I take my perspective from growing up with health issues in a single parent household and seek my own unconventional path in the world while lifting up others on the way. Majoring in Electronic Engineering, interested in current affairs and exploring the Chinese political landscape to one day contribute to technology policy. Aspiring to one day understand how the world works.

Volunteering Experience

International Service Director - Rotaract Club of HKUST
I spent one year as the International Service Director of the Rotaract Club of HKUST. Over this period, I helped organise multiple community service initiatives and led a service project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rotary Pi: A program to teach lower SES children robotics skills through the Raspberry Pi device, upskilling them for the future and reducing the digital divide. We provided a safe place for these children to stay during the day as both of their parents would often be at work, and ensured that they didn't fall behind their more advantaged peers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URA 学建关爱 @ 科大扶青: Many low income households end up messy as furniture and storage is low on the list compared to the other pressing needs that they have. This was a program where we visited lower income families to find specific home needs and created handmade bespoke wooden furniture to solve them. My case was a family which didn't have enough storage space in their home, but also desperately needed a study space for their daughter. We ended up creating a shelf with a stowable tabletop just like on an airplane.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jockey Club "Start with Soap" Empowerment Project Activity where we recruited HKUST students to learn how to recycle bars of soap, and hosted training workshops for them to understand the distribution network of a Phillipines based NGO. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------International Service Trip to Malaysia: As International Service Director, my job was to lead the annual International Service trip. My responsibilities included: In charge of organising an 8 service trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 20 HKUST students. Developed itinerary by reaching out to native community homestay building social enterprise in Malaysia. Liaised with sister club members in the University of Nottingham, Kuala Lumpur to arrange transport and accommodation. Collected participant information to ensure safety by purchasing travel insurance plans and coordinating dietary needs and health concerns.
Hosting games at Wai Ji Christian Service - HKUST Student Social Service Society
With the HKUST Student Social Service Society, we organised activities for four consecutive saturdays at the Wai Ji Christian Service, Mei Tin Integrated Rehabilitation Services Center. This rehabilitation center was a place for people with Down syndrome to have a place to be safe space to live and go about their lives learning and having fun. However, providing this care is a labour intensive process, so in order to relieve some of the burden from caretakers, we scheduled weekly afternoon events were we would come in and play group games with the residents. We quickly found that the residents were actually very talkative, with some very distinct and quirky personalities. Apart from making sure to cater for their sensory needs, I found that playing with the residents was the same as playing with anyone else. Some of the activities we played included origami, towel folding, ball tossing, introductions, and more. The most memorable moment for me was when one of the residents talked with me. At the time, I had just returned to Hong Kong, and my Cantonese was still very poor. However, I still ended up in a long discussion wehre I found out we had a shared love for planes. I then found a piece of A4 paper and made the most beautiful origami paper plane that I knew how to make, and gifted it to him. The joy on his face when playing with it truly warmed my heart, and reminded me of something I would do when I was younger. We really weren't all that different him and I.

Job experience

Beijing Sudo Information Technology
Working with front-end circuit design teams to verify the expected parameters of SoC designs for PCIe-based high-frequency switches used in heterogeneous computing AI servers. Responsible for the verification of key modules and SoCs in the chip Responsible for test point extraction, verification scheme development, verification platform construction, test case writing, verification report writing, etc. Write functional coverage points and assertions, and promote the convergence of code coverage, assertion coverage and functional coverage. Collaborate with designers to locate and analyse problems Promote new verification methods and processes to improve verification efficiency.
STEM Teaching Assistant
Developed Blender 3D modelling/design thinking course curriculum in collaboration with HKUST and MIT Node. Taught Blender, LoRA Stable Diffusion, BlockadeLabs environment generation, and MIT design methodology to over 50 high school students. Guided groups of SEN middle school students to materialise their visions of the future of Hong Kong banking in the Wing Lung Scholarship program.
QM Engineering Intern
Addressed temperature sensor IC product returns due to irregular readings. Conducted Gage R&R analysis using Temptronic Thermostream machine. Identified the need for re-calibrating Thermostream machines and standardising operating procedures. Presented findings and recommendations to executives in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Beijing offices in Mandarin. Gained knowledge in semiconductor manufacturing and integrated circuit testing.

Scholarships & Awards

85 points, One Frame Exhibit - Taipei 2023 39th Asian International Stamp Exhibit
Postal stamp collecting is a hobby that ties 3 generations of my family together. My father picked it up while studying abroad and introduced it to my grandfather, who found it an interesting perspective to view the Chinese history he was so enamoured with. After my father passed, I wanted to take up the hobby to find a reason to spend more time with my grandfather. Over the 3 years of the pandemic, I started my collection under his careful supervision, and was finally able to showcase my debut collection. My collection was a one frame (16 page) exhibition titled - THE BEGINNING OF CHINA POSTAGE METER - chronicling the turbulent Chinese civil war period of the late 1940's. Through the medium of overprinted stamps in the messy transition between gold to silver yuan currencies. I was able to perform a previously unthinkable study of the exact daily exchange rate between gold and silver yuan on a sometimes daily basis during this period of extreme hyperinflation. Overall, I was awarded a total of 85/100 points, the joint highest in the one frame category. Although awards usually arent given for this category due to its short length, and equivalent point tally for a full length exhibition would have warranted a Gold Medal. Overall, what was most important for me was that my grandfather and I could finally taste the fruits of our labour, and shared this beautiful moment together.
1st Runner-Up, Chan Dang Association Social Entrepreneurship Award, Most Applicable iOS Award - HackUST 2023
Pitch on an On-Chain, Fractionalised Property Ownership application utilising Web3.0 technology at a global hackathon - hackUST 2023. Led market research by utilising MECE Frameworks to analyse the housing market situation in Hong Kong; determining appropriate serviceable markets and coalescing customer pain points. Dictated the direction for our team’s product design and development by overseeing and collaborating with software engineers, improving user experience and interface for our MVP. Interpreted Hong Kong Securities Law to determine the functional legality of the proposed product.
2nd Runner Up - HK Techathon 2023 HKSTP
Developed a computer-vision powered smart cane for the visually impaired using a consumer-centric design iteration process. Used blender to create 3D images and animations to showcase the practical functionality of the product. This project was especially important to me as my family is genetically predisposed to suffer from eye conditions such as glaucoma. Seeing my relatives who grew up in an economically unstable environment struggle with finding suitable solutions in a chaotic city like Hong Kong drove me to find a better way of dealing with this problem.

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Melo Experience

Project Melo was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, a unique chance be a part of a movement greater than myself. What I most appreciated was that it was an invaluable channel of communication between CEOs and youth such as myself to make sure that the cause of the Ronald McDonald House Charity is continued, and their message can be propogated in new ways to touch the hearts of new generations of Hong Kongers. Over this period we attended McDonald's annual fundraising kidathon. From this event we were able to witness firsthand how support for children battling illness goes so far beyond just having the right medical care. The joyful atmosphere at the event really brought out the best in everyone and RMHC residents were able to spend a day with their burdens lifted. Additionally, we were able to witness the power of using celebrities with cohesive stories complementing your mission. With this, we created a proposal for a themed celebrity music therapy event with specific groups for diffferent stakeholders in RMHC. This program was designed to create heart warming interactions between the families of RMHC and celebrities with similar stories that could empathise with them, generating content that could form deeper connections and would be more effective in raising awareness for RMHC in this new age of ultra short-form content. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the impact that we were empowered to make through Project Melo, but my favourite aspect still has to be the community built around it. It is amazing to see so many amazing like minded people in one place, taking risks and building the future, and I have been enthralled to meet them all. The future of Hong Kong is in safe hands and I'm looking forward to whats to come.