Mika Tan
Undergraduate Student
Vancouver, BC
University of British Columbia
| E-mail: | mikayxtan@gmail.com |
| LinkedIn: | mika-yu-xian-tan |
| GitHub: | MikaTan2007 |
| Resume |
About
I am a dual degree student pursuing a BSc in Mathematics (Minor in Physics) and Masters of Management at The University of British Columbia.
Extremely passionate about renewable energies, and currently working as a Summer Project Intern at Solarvest, a leading renewables company in Asia Pacific, and Technical Lead for the Electrical and Software subteam at UBC Sustaingineering.
In my free time I enjoy running - I raced my first Ultramarathon (Diez Vista 50k) in April 2026!
Education
The University of British Columbia
BSc Mathematics, Masters of Management 2025 - 2029- Minor in Physics
- Outstanding International Student Award Scholarship Recipient, Dean's List
- Relevant Coursework: Linear Algebra, Discrete Maths, Calculus I and II, Systematic Program Design, Dynamics and Waves, Electricity and Magnetism
- GPA: 3.95
International School Manila
International Baccalaureate Diploma 2023 - 2025- Class President
- MUN Club President
- Code Club President
- Moon Koo Lee Outstanding Senior Award
Experience
Project Intern
Solarvest June 2026 - Present- Advancing Philippine's renewables ecosystem.
Sustaingineering UBC
UBC Engineering Design TeamTechnical Team Lead
January 2026 - Present- Co-Lead and Technical Lead for the Electrical & Software Subteam.
- Actively coordinating the development and prototyping of the Remote Monitoring System (RMS) for the Sustainable Mobile Research Testbed (SMRT) Project.
- The RMS is a web-app that uses Microcontrollers, Sensors, and a RaspberryPi to monitor and collect environmental data for the SMRT Project.
- Skills: Leadership
Software Engineer
September 2025 - December 2025- Part of the Electrical & Software Subteam of Sustaingineering.
- Majorly contributed to the development of the Remote Monitoring System.
- Skills: CircuitPY, Adafruit, RaspberryPi, Embedded Systems
Mathematics Mentor
Prison Mathematics Project February 2026 - Present- Mentoring an incarcerated individual in Calculus, Trigonometry and Philosophy of Math
- Skills: Teaching, Communication
Math & Physics Tutor
Purpose Education Collective February 2026 - Present- Teaching Maths and Physics to Middle School and High School level students.
- Skills: Teaching, Communication
AI Researcher
Algoverse June 2025 - October 2025- 2nd author of "Diffusion Transformers Use Sink Registers" published under AAAI-26 in XAI4Science.
- Investigated High-Norm Activations in Diffusion Transformers (Text-To-Image Models), showing they encode semantic information while not greatly affecting image quality when ablated.
- Skills: Google Colab, Python, Machine Learning, Research, LaTeX
Full Stack Developer
International School Manila July 2024 - September 2025- Solo-developed two iterations of the Manila World University Fair Web App
- Information-sharing system connecting University representatives and high school students.
- Used by 600+ users in 2024 and 2025, facilitating 1200+ connections between 170 universities and 400 students.
- Skills: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, MongoDB, React, ASP.NET, SwaggerUI, msSQL, Git
Parts Order Processor
Mazda Philippines June 2024 - July 2024- Processed car part orders from nationwide dealerships, creating invoices and order manifests, matching purchases with warehouse part availability.
- Skills: Order Management
Warehouse Worker
Mazda Philippines June 2022 - July 2022- Performed daily picking/sorting for orders, unpacking from deliveries, and weekly parts audits.
- Skills: Auditing, Warehouse Operations
Projects
Publications
- Diffusion Transformers Use Sink Registers A. Jamal, M. Tan, C. Saputra, Q. Huynh, K. Zhu, A. Mari. Second Workshop on XAI4Science (AAAI), 2025.
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