Presentations

Hyperscalar Geographies

Digital Geographies Conference, University of Lisbon · Lisbon, Portugal · November 3–5, 2025

Co-organized panel.

On Development Software, Sovereignty, and the Financial Modernization of Singapore (1980–1990)

FinGeo Global Conference, National University of Singapore · Singapore · February 26–28, 2025

Financial Cloud Sovereignty

FinGeo Global Conference, National University of Singapore · Singapore · February 26–28, 2025

Co-organized panel.

Reading the Language of Large Language Models

The AI Paradigm: Between Personhood and Power, UC Irvine · Irvine, CA · May 23–24, 2024

Co-presented.

Colonial Circuits

4S Annual Meeting · Honolulu, HI · November 8–9, 2023

Co-organized panel on Digital Capitalism and Imperialism.

Market Technology Policy: The Role of SESDAQ in Singapore's Plans for Development

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) · Long Beach, CA · 2023

The Stock Market of Tomorrow: NASDAQ and the Colonial Circuits of Finance

Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference · London, UK · August 29, 2023

From Hammer to Infrastructure: Tracing 'Breakdown' in Amazon's Vectors of Power

4S Conference · Toronto, Canada · October 9, 2021

ANNA: Market Metadata and the Uneven Infrastructures of Financial Assetization

4S Conference, Panel on Markets as Data · Toronto, Canada · October 6, 2021

Spatial Semiotics: Toward an Economic Geography of Information

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting · April 7, 2021

Personalizing Persuasion Architecture: Privacy Harms and Algorithmic News Media

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) · Stanford, CA · June 25, 2018

Digital Memory Dialogues II: Finding a 'North Star' for Using AI in Holocaust Memory

University of Sussex · Online · February 12, 2026

Live online discussion.

Seeing Like a Cloud

Department of Geography's Data Center Workshop, Beijing Normal University · Beijing, China · November 19, 2025

Platform Finance

Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar · Brussels, Belgium · March 3, 2025

From NASDAQ to SESDAQ: Development and the Creation of the Second Board Stock Exchange in Singapore (1981–1989)

Lee Kong Chian Research Fellows Public Presentation, National Library of Singapore · Singapore · June 17, 2023

Advanced Googling It: Digital Methods for Online Research

UCLA Department of Information Studies · Los Angeles, CA · November 4, 2022

Grad STRIVE Fellowship Panel

Grad STRIVE 2.0 Program, UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · November 2, 2022

BYO Text: Introduction to Text Generation with Large Language Models

UCLA Department of Information Studies · Los Angeles, CA · February 6, 2022

Data Activism Workshop

California Rare Books School, UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · August 16, 2021

Feature Extraction: The Aesthetics and Politics of Algorithms

NAVEL Assemblies · Los Angeles, CA · March–May 2020

Feature Extraction

Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · November 16–17, 2019