I’m a Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, where I am a faculty member for the Philosophy major and Global Antiquity minor. I am also an affiliated faculty member of the National University of Singapore’s Buddhist Studies Group, where I offer independent studies in South Asian philosophy to NUS graduate students. My primary research interests lie in South Asian Buddhist philosophy, metaphysics of gender, Ancient Greek philosophy, and innovative pedagogical methods.
From 2018-2023, I was the inaugural Yale-NUS Overseas Graduate Scholar and collaborator for a Yale-NUS Grant on Buddhist-Platonist Dialogues. Some of my current collaborations include a project on Wisdom and Global Traditions which brings together academics from Berlin and Singapore; a project on Gender Metaphysics in Buddhist Doctrines and Narratives; and a book volume on Buddhism and Neoplatonism.
I have also conducted several projects on innovative pedagogical methods. These include my collaboration with local game designers on a tabletop role-playing game provisionally titled Everyday Philosophers, which we playtested on my Philosophy of Games students over a period of four months in 2024; and a collaboration with Yale-NUS students on exploring an assignment format known as the ‘unessay‘ and producing student-led zine volumes from 2023-2025. Our first zine volume, Anātman: A Buddhist Philosophy Zine, has been edited by myself and will be published by the NUS Buddhist Studies Group in 2025.
I completed my PhD at the University of Michigan in August 2023, where I defended my dissertation titled ‘Towards a Buddhist Metaphysics of Gender’. Before that, I received my BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Global Antiquity (Sanskrit; Greek) from Yale-NUS College.
You may find details about my teaching here; details about the philosophy zines I’ve edited here; and details about my research here.
My training is in South Asian Buddhist philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, and the metaphysics of gender. Some of my current research projects include a manuscript where I track and translate various South Asian Buddhist debates about the metaphysics of gender from 5th century BCE to 4th century CE; a book chapter on Proclus’ commentary on the Republic and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra; a paper on the Sautrāntika-Vaibhāṣika debate about gender indriyas and their causal efficacy; a research project on wisdom in South Asian Buddhism; and several projects on innovative pedagogical methods.
You may find further details about my research here.
Research Specialisations- South Asian Buddhist Philosophy
- Metaphysics of Gender
- Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato)
“Gendered Souls, Gender as Empty: Proclus and the Vimalakīrti Sūtra’s Metaphysics of Gender.” Convergence and Divergence: Neoplatonist and Buddhist Dialogues, edited by Emile Alexandrov and Alexander James O’Neill, Chisokudō Press, forthcoming 2025.
Anātman: A Buddhist Philosophy Zine, edited by Sherice Ngaserin, Singapore: Buddhist Studies Group, National University of Singapore, forthcoming 2025.
“Towards a Buddhist Metaphysics of Gender.” PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2023. DeepBlue.
“Atoms and Orientation: Vasubandhu’s Solution to the Problem of Contact” (with Amber Carpenter), in Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to Present, edited by Ugo Zilioli, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, pp. 159-81.
- Topics in Buddhist Philosophy
- Philosophy of Games
- Metaphysics of Gender
- Advanced Buddhist Philosophy Research Seminar
