About Me
Education
- BEng in Computer Science and Additional Major in Mathematics, and Additional Major in Data Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2026 (expected)
- BBA in General Business Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2026 (expected)
- VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted, 2021
- Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted, 2018
Research experience
- 06/2025 - now: Work on a project about LLM’s autonomous scientific discovery. More details will be posted soon!
- 01/2025 - now: Working for Prof. Raymond Wong
- Project: Improve Session-based Recommender Systems
- Project: to be confirmed
- 06/2024 - 12/2024: Research Assistant for Prof. Don Noh
- Project: Application of Machine Learning to Financial Data, with Doris Yang Zimo
- Replicate paper (Re-)imag(in)ing Price Trends
- Reconstruct approximately 2.3 million images, with each image contains OHLC chart, volume bar, and moving average line
- Reconstruct a convolutional neural network (CNN) model that matches the paper’s specification
- Partially train part of training data. We are able to construct the quantile table of stocks to empirically show the better performance of the method.
- Code and report: will be updated
- Tool: Python, plotly, matplotlib, numpy, pandas, keras, tensorflow
- 11/2023 - 11/2024: Research Assistant for Prof. Edwin Lai
- Project: International Trade and Foreign Exchange
- Collect, clean, and maintain datasets and databases for economics-research purposed
- Extract and link data from multiple databases for analysis
- Develop models and implement program code (R). Perform statistical analysis, mainly on regression analysis
- Tool: R, pandas
- Sadly, because of many reasons (I am unable to disclose), the project is stopped, so I cannot contribute more.
Work experience
- 06/2024 - 08/2024: Software Engineer at Good Chain
- Develop a scrapping process for scrapping data on YouTube, WordPress-powered page, etc
- Scrape and transcribe 30 YouTube channels, each with approximately 150 Gb of data
- Scrape and structure 10 sources, each with approximately 500 content pages.
- Perform explanatory analysis of datasets
- Tool: whisper, prefect, selenium, markdownify, yt_dlp, Python
- 12/2022 - 1/2023: ESG Research Assistant at at HKUST Sustainability
- Take charge in designing the overall structure of HKUST ESG Report 2021-2022
- Create visual representations that effectively communicate crucial data to audiences
- Conduct extensive research on prevailing ESG practices and pertinent standards
- Design visualizations on existing campus data to supplement the University ESG plan
Languages
- Vietnamese: Native
- English: Fluent, hopefully near native, with a mix of Vietnamese, Hong Kong, and Singaporean accent :D
- Mandarin: Intermediate, say IELTS 5.5-6.0 (TOCFL 3-4)
- Cantonese: Conversational, those bad words and other daily life conversations