Team Singapore bridge player and NUS data scientist on what the game and her work have in common

What do billionaire businessman Warren Buffet, Snoopy from the comic strip Peanuts and Ms Jazlene Ong, Data Scientist from the NUS Office of Data and Intelligence (ODI), all have in common? A passion for a good game of bridge!

Ms Ong picked up the mind sport in 2014, when she was a freshman at the University of Cambridge. She played bridge casually for a year before being scouted to Singapore’s national team, making her international debut at the World Youth Bridge Teams Championships in 2016.

Today, she juggles between…