Presentations
Conferences
2025 “Hyperscalar Geographies.”Co-organized panel for the Digital Geographies Conference. University of Lisbon, Lisbon. November 3–5, 2025.
2025 “Financial Cloud Sovereignty.” Co-organized panel for the FinGeo Global Conference. National University of Singapore, Singapore. February 26–28, 2025.
2025 “On Development Software, Sovereignty, and the Financial Modernization of Singapore (1980-1990).” FinGeo Global Conference. National University of Singapore, Singapore. February 26–28, 2025.
2024 “Reading the Language of Large Language Models.” Co-presented at The AI Paradigm: Between Personhood and Power. UC Irvine. Irvine, CA. May 23-24, 2024.
2023 “Colonial Circuits.” Co-organized panel on Digital Capitalism and Imperialism for 4S, Honolulu. November 8-9, 2023.
2023 “Market Technology Policy: The role of SESDAQ in Singapore's Plans for Development,” SHOT, Long Beach, CA.
2023 “The Stock Market of Tomorrow: NASDAQ and the Colonial Circuits of Finance,” Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, August 29, 2023
2021 “ANNA: Market Metadata and the Uneven Infrastructures of Financial Assetization.” 4S Conference, Panel on Markets as Data, Toronto, October 6, 2021.
2021 “From Hammer to Infrastructure: Tracing ‘Breakdown’ in Amazon's Vectors of Power.” 4S Conference, Toronto, October 9, 2022.
2021 “Spatial Semiotics: Toward an Economic Geography of Information.” The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, 2021.
2018 “Personalizing Persuasion Architecture: Privacy Harms and Algorithmic News Media.” International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Stanford, CA, June 25, 2018.
Invited Talks & Workshop Leadership
2026 “Digital Memory Dialogues II live online discussion: finding a 'North Star' for using AI in Holocaust memory.” University of Sussex, UK. February 12, 2026.
2025 “Seeing Like a Cloud.” Department of Geography’s Data Center Workshop. Bejing Normal University, China. November 19, 2025.
2025 “Platform Finance.” Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar. Brussels, Belgium. March 3, 2025.
2023 “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, June 17, 2023.
2022 “Advanced Googling It: Digital Methods for Online Research,” Department of Information Studies, November 4, 2022.
2022 “Grad STRIVE Fellowship Panel,” Grad STRIVE 2.0 program, November 2, 2022.
2022 “BYO Text: Introduction to Text Generation with Large Language Models,” Department of Information Studies, February 6, 2022.
2021 “Data Activism Workshop,” California Rare Books School, UCLA, Los Angeles, August 16, 2021.
2020 “Feature Extraction: The Aesthetics and Politics of Algorithms,” NAVEL assemblies, Los Angeles, March–May, 2020.
2019 “Feature Extraction,” Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, November 16–17, 2019.