Achievement
My journey began with a small question at the market: how can technology tell whether food is safe to eat? That curiosity led to my research project, “Applying AI Image Recognition Technology to Determine the Freshness of Pork,” which won Third Prize at the 2024 Provincial Science and Engineering Fair. Training an algorithm to detect subtle color and texture changes taught me patience, precision, and the quiet thrill of watching data reveal what the human eye often misses. It was my first glimpse into how technology could directly improve daily life, not through abstract theories, but through something as ordinary and essential as food.
Soon after, I carried those lessons into Yale MUN Taiwan, where I stood before hundreds of delegates to debate global policy. There, I learned that communication and science are not separate worlds, they are two sides of the same pursuit. In both, clarity is power, empathy is structure, and understanding is the bridge that holds everything together. Yale MUN taught me to speak not just with confidence, but with care; not to win arguments, but to connect perspectives and find shared ground.
That mindset carried into my next project, “Highly Adsorption Removal of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics in Water Using Polyanion-Modified Alumina Nanoparticles,” which earned a Gold Medal at the 2025 International ICAN Competition. It pushed me to see science as a form of responsibility, to transform curiosity into solutions that ripple beyond the lab. From AI models designed for food safety to nanotechnology that helps purify water, each step deepened my belief that innovation means little without empathy.
Looking back, I realize that every experiment, debate, and late night spent refining code was really about one thing: learning how to protect what matters. Whether it’s the safety of a meal, the purity of a river, or the trust between people, I’ve come to see resilience as both a scientific and human pursuit, one built not on certainty, but on care, collaboration, and the courage to keep improving the fragile systems that sustain us.