Nga Shi Yeu (surname as Nga by following the Malaysian naming convention) is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology (under the Global Asia project) at Stockholm University and a Wadsworth Fellow granted by the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation in New York. He also currently serves as an editor for Taiwan Insight, an affiliated platform of the Taiwan Research Hub at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In 2025, he conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Taiwan, supported by the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica and the Centre for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library. His multisited and multimodal approaches incorporate digital participation, meeting ethnography, visual analysis, and sensory methods to explore how social devotion to friendly bacteria is associated with self-care and the flourishing microbiotechnological market in Taiwan, turning these gut nurturance practices inside-out to navigate everyday uncertainties and more-than-human labour and anticipate hopes for existential futures. Trained in Botany in Penang and later Anthropology in Taipei, his master’s thesis on Bornean indigenous post-environmental resistance to deforestation in East Malaysia received outstanding thesis prizes from the Taiwan Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (2019) and the Cultural Studies Association (2020).

In his personal life, he shares companionship with three cats and enjoys playing badminton, practising recurve archery, daydreaming, and taking long city walks.