04 · Research Labs, Industry & Leadership

Experience

Research laboratory appointments at SELab (HCMUS), AITHENA Lab (HCMUS), and VNG – Saigon AI Hub, applied AI engineering roles, international ASEAN delegations (Jul 2025), and university leadership.

01research· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sep 2025 – Present

Undergraduate AI Researcher

SELab — VNU-HCM University of Science

Software Engineering & AI Laboratory · Multimedia Retrieval, Computer Vision, rPPG & Biometric Security

LSC '26 Task 3 QA

Rank #1 (1000/1000)

SKIA-Net rPPG

ρ = 0.7522 · 3.73 BPM

FLeX Benchmark

71,040 Probes

Key Venues

ICMR · ICMV · FDSE

Conducting first-author research on temporal-first agentic lifelog retrieval (ACM ICMR LSC '26), motion-robust physiological computing / rPPG (ICMV '26), and biometric super-resolution privacy leakage evaluation (FDSE '26).

Key Outcome:First author of ChronoSeek (ACM ICMR 2026 · LSC '26): proposed a temporal-first Agentic RAG framework with an Event Knowledge Graph in Neo4j and Milvus, achieving a 10.8× MRR gain over CLIP and Rank #1 (1000.0/1000.0) on LSC '26 Task 3 (Question Answering).

ChronoSeek (ACM ICMR LSC 2026)SKIA / SKIA-Net (ICMV 2026)FLeX (FDSE 2026 · Springer CCIS)

PythonPyTorchNeo4j & CypherMilvusLangGraphQwen2.5-VL

02research· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sep 2025 – Present

Undergraduate AI Researcher

AITHENA Lab — VNU-HCM University of Science

Automated Fact Verification, Natural Language Processing & Large Language Models

Cross-Lingual S@10

0.8833 (+8.0% Gain)

Overall S@10 (10 Langs)

0.9163

Legal Error Typology

9 Classes (κ = 0.72)

Key Venues

KES '26 · FJCAI '26

Conducting first-author research in multilingual and Vietnamese automated fact-checking retrieval, dense-and-cross-encoder reranking architectures, and diagnostic reasoning evaluation of Large Language Models.

Key Outcome:First author of Multilingual Fact-Checking Retrieval (KES 2026, Elsevier Procedia Computer Science): proposed a two-stage pipeline combining a 5-seed BiLSTM-Attention E5-Large ensemble with a retriever-aligned Dense Hard-Negative BGE-M3 Cross-Encoder on SemEval-2025 Task 7, achieving 0.8833 Cross-Lingual S@10 (+8.0% gain) and 0.9163 Overall S@10 across 10 languages.

Multilingual Fact-Checking Retrieval (KES 2026 · Procedia CS)Vietnamese Legal LLM Evaluation (FJCAI 2026 · arXiv:2604.16270)ViMELD & Automated Fact-Checking Systems

PythonPyTorchTransformersMultilingual-E5BGE-M3 RerankerBiLSTM-Attention

03research· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

Research Member

VNG – Saigon AI Hub

Applied AI Lab Batch 1 (VR Story Train AI) · Joint VNG Group & VNU-HCM Initiative

Selection Cohort

Top 10 Teams

UMUX-LITE Score

76.8 / 100

User Study

14 Healthcare Students

Publications

ICMR '26 & ISMAR '26

Selected into one of 10 teams in Saigon AI Hub's inaugural Applied AI Lab to research and engineer multimodal agentic systems and VR clinical-communication training environments.

Key Outcome:Designed CrisisX, an adaptive mobile VR clinical-communication training framework modeling patient emotional state transitions in high-stress clinical scenarios.

Lumina-HT2 (ACM ICMR 2026)CrisisX (IEEE ISMAR 2026 Poster)ChronoSeek (ACM ICMR LSC 2026)

PythonGemini 3.1 Flash-LiteMultimodal RetrievalSpeech-to-TextVAD Emotion ModelingAdaptive Agents

04industry· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

AI Project Contributor

DIGIIN (Digital Insurance Services JSC)

Computer Vision & Automated Claim Assessment

Domain

InsurTech Vision

Focus

Damage & Fraud AI

Contributed to an applied computer vision system for digital insurance loss assessment, automating vehicle/asset damage inspection and fraud detection.

Key Outcome:Investigated visual anomaly and damage localization cues to flag potential claim fraud from unconstrained field-inspection photographs.

PythonPyTorchComputer VisionObject DetectionImage Classification

05industry· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

AI Intern

Global Tech

Information Retrieval & Vietnamese NLP Systems

Corpus Scale

100,000+ Articles

Hits@1 Improvement

41% → 47% (+14.6% rel.)

Hits@20 Accuracy

94.5%

Query Latency

0.174 s / query

Engineered a production-scale Vietnamese information retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline over 100,000 news articles.

Key Outcome:Designed a two-stage retrieve-and-rerank evaluation protocol on a 100-query gold-standard benchmark and a 200-query question-answering evaluation set.

PythonMilvus (IVF-SQ8)halong_embeddingPhoRankerVietnamese NLPNER

06leadership· Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Oct 2023 – Present

Academic Program Organizer & Student Leader

Faculty of Information Technology — VNU-HCM University of Science

Youth Union & Student Association · Class 23CNTN

HCMUS Leadership '23

Champion

FIT Leadership '24

Champion

Community Service

10× Blood Donor

Organized faculty-wide AI seminars, programming challenges, and peer academic-support workshops while winning top university leadership competitions.

Key Outcome:Co-organized Faculty of IT AI Talkshows ('AI: Sharing & Future Orientation' 2024 & 2025) connecting undergraduate students with AI researchers and industry practitioners.

Technical CommunicationAI EducationEvent OrganizationAcademic Mentoring

07global· Manila, Philippines & Singapore

Jul 2025

International Academic Delegate

ASEAN University Network (AUN) & National University of Singapore (NUS)

De La Salle University (Philippines) · National University of Singapore

DLSU AUN Camp (Jul '25)

Sole VNU Delegate

NUS AUS & REGEN (Jul '25)

Selected Delegate

Summer Schools

VIASM '25 & HUST Edge AI '26

Selected to represent Vietnam National University in competitive international undergraduate symposiums and summer research/leadership camps across Southeast Asia.

Key Outcome:Sole Vietnam National University (VNU) system delegate selected for the ASEAN University Network (AUN) Summer Camp hosted by De La Salle University, Philippines (Jul 2025).

Cross-Cultural CollaborationEdge AIBayesian StatisticsMathematical Optimization

EDUCATION

Academic Institutions

Sep 2023 – Present (Expected 2027)GPA: 9.50 / 10.0

University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM)

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (Honors Program in Information Technology (Cử nhân Tài năng — 23CNTN))

· Cumulative GPA: 9.50/10.0 across intensive Honors IT mathematical and computer science curriculum.
· Recipient of 100% Tuition Waiver and Academic Merit Scholarships across consecutive semesters (2023–2026).
· Named to the Faculty of Information Technology Golden Achievement Board (Bảng vàng thành tích Khoa CNTT) in 2024 and 2025.
· Member of the HCMUS ICPC Competitive Programming Team (2024) and Presenter at the 3rd HCMUS Young Scientists Conference (2026).

Sep 2020 – May 2023GPA: 9.7 / 10.0 (Grade 12)

Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted, Gia Lai

High School Diploma — Specialized in Computer Science (Chuyên Tin học) (Specialized Informatics Track (Class C8))

· Top Student in Class (Học sinh giỏi nhất lớp) for three consecutive academic years (2020–2021, 2021–2022, 2022–2023).
· First Prize in the Gia Lai Provincial Excellent Student Contest in Informatics (Grade 12 Table A, 2022–2023) & Member of the Provincial National Olympiad Training Team.
· Third Prize in Hue-ICT Challenge Pro Track (2023) and Third Prize in the Regional National Youth Informatics Contest (2023).
· Co-founder of HV TechG+, the school's computer science and technology club.