Thien-Trang Nguyen-Vu

    Education

    Carnegie Mellon University
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    08/2025 – Present

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)
    B.S. in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
    08/2019 – 09/2023

    • GPA: 3.89/4.0 (Overall), 3.95/4.0 (Major)
    • Rank: 1st in DSAI (Class of 2023)

    Foreign Language Specialized School
    Specialized in Languages
    08/2016 – 05/2019

    • Focus: English (Primary), Japanese and Korean (Secondary)
    • GPA: 9.3/10

    Experience

    Qualcomm AI (formerly VinAI Research)
    Research Resident
    08/2023 – 07/2025

    • Supervisor: Nhat Ho
    • Main research topics: mixture of experts, backdoor attack, continual learning, optimal transport
    • Participated in applied projects, including reproducing text-to-image diffusion models on customized datasets and quantizing them for edge device deployment

    MB Bank
    Data Scientist
    03/2023 – 08/2023

    • Developed a facial recognition system for the employee attendance system at MB’s headquarters
    • Analyzed user data and contributed to building a recommendation system for mini-applications within the MB mobile banking app

    Data Science Laboratory, Hanoi University of Science and Technology
    Research Student
    04/2021 – 10/2022

    • Supervisor: Ngo Van Linh
    • Main research topics: continual learning
    • Developed continual learning methods based on regularization and prompt-based approaches

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology
    Teaching Assistant
    01/2022 – 06/2022

    • Conducted recitations, graded assignments, and mentored students on projects for the Artificial Intelligence course