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

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.

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

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