Kuriakin Zeng

Kuriakin Zeng (born 24 December 1985) is a Chinese Indonesian who became the first Singapore Polytechnic student to achieve straight distinctions for all of his 33 modules in his electronics, computer and communication engineering diploma course in the institution's history.
He graduated top of the 5,000-strong cohort of students and obtained numerous awards for both his academic and off-field achievements including the Lee Kuan Yew Award for Mathematics and Science, ABB Gold Medal, Infineon Technologies Academic Excellence Award, The Institution of Engineers Singapore Prize, Shell Companies in Singapore Prize, Alfred Robert Edis Prize, Shell Merit Award, and OCBC Prize. With his teammates at the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre in Singapore, he built a team of 1.3 meter-tall robots which finished second in the 2010 RoboCup Soccer Humanoid Adult-Size Category.
In 2010, he became the first student from the polytechnic to gain acceptance into the prestigious Harvard College with the bonus of having a full scholarship from the Ivy League university. Zeng is now pursuing a liberal arts and sciences degree at Harvard University and is currently the only Indonesian in the college.

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