Michigan State University
Visiting Scholar, HLR Laboratory
Michigan, USA
Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Parisa Kordjamshidi
Developed an in-context learning framework for idiom-aware Vietnamese–English machine translation, published at AACL-IJCNLP 2025.
Experience
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Laboratory Assistant, HA3CI Laboratory
Ishikawa, Japan
Advisor: Prof. Sakriani Sakti
- Built ZeST, a direct speech-to-speech translation system for unknown, unpaired, and untranscribed language pairs.
- Developed VGSAlign, a bilingual speech-alignment method that works without transcripts.
University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM
Lecturer, Department of Data Science
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Supervise undergraduate research and theses, including student first-authored work at EMNLP 2024, INTERSPEECH 2025, and ICASSP 2026.
- Design curriculum and teach courses to cohorts of 50–100 students.
- Lead a VNU-HCM project on textless direct speech-to-speech translation for Vietnamese.
Research project
Textless Approaches to Vietnamese Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
Principal Investigator · VNU-HCM Type C Research Grant · Funded $8,000
Honors & awards
Nominated Visiting Scholar, USAID PHER Program
U.S. Agency for International Development · $10,800
Outstanding Dedication and Contribution to Research
HA3CI Laboratory, JAIST
Fully-funded Master’s Scholarship
JAIST · Tuition and stipend · $10,000
Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research, Master’s Program
Vingroup Innovation Foundation · $5,000
Excellent Achievement in Scientific Research
Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
Valedictorian in Information Technology
UIT, VNU-HCM · 1/108
Highest Thesis Score in the Information Technology Major
UIT, VNU-HCM · 9.9/10
Excellent Student of 5 Merits
Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
Short-term Exchange Student Program
Saga University, Japan
Third Place, UIT Creative Youth Ideas
UIT, VNU-HCM
Academic service
Conference reviewer
ACL Rolling Review (2024, 2025, 2026) · ICASSP (2026)