Alvin obtained his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, specializing in computational modelling for engineering processes. He was also a Microsoft Cloud Research Fellow for a period of 8 months between 2019 and 2020, focusing on deploying machine learning models on Microsoft, Azure to support his research. His current focus is on developing novel numerical and machine learning algorithms for real-world engineering problems. He has published several articles on scientific journals.