Education
2014 - 2018 Brandeis University
Phd candidate in Computer Science
Dissertation topic Learning to Perform Actions from Demonstrations with Sequential Modeling
Supervisor: James Pustejovsky

2012 - 2014 Brandeis University
MA degree in Computer Science
GPA: 3.97 / 4.0

2007 - 2011 University of Engineering and Technology
Vietnam National University, Hanoi
BSc degree in Computer Science GPA: 3.76 / 4.0


Awards
2011 Ha Noi Valedictorian Award
2008-09, 2010-11 Vietnam National University Outstanding Student
2 times
2008, 2010 Regional ACM/ICPC
Third prizes
2010 Vietnam Golden Award for Science and Technology awarded to 10 young people each year
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 National mathematics prizes (high-school and undergrad levels)

Work Experience
May 2017 - August 2017 Cofounder and CTO at KapitalAMC, a startup company in Vietnam specializing in investment consultancy: Developed a platform (https://winvestor.vn) for Vietnamese investors to share and analyze their performance (on Vietnamese market) by sharing their investment account. I was in charge mostly of the platform's backend (setting up database server, building stock info crawlers, pooling market opinion about stocks through new feeds etc.). In phase 2 of the project, we will employ ML methods to predict market trend and provide that to our paid customers.

Jun 2014 - August 2014 Data Analyst at Brandeis University: Analyzed Wikipedia pages and Amazon reviews to create machine learning materials for Big Data class

October 2011 - July 2012 Worked for a start-up in Vietnam specializing in customer relationship management (CRM)

Teaching
2012 - Now Teaching assistant for the following courses:
Data structures and Algorithms
Advanced Algorithm
Introduction to Java Programming
Computer System Structures and Organization
Scientific Data Processing Using MATLAB
Introduction to Big Data analysis Created quizzes, assignments and administered clusters on Yarn/Hadoop/Mahout and Spark. Assignments I designed include for example: collaborative learning on Amazon reviews dataset to suggest new item for users using Spark.
Fundamentals of Computational Linguistics created assignments, gave lectures and lab sessions on fundamental statistics and neural network methods.
Computational Semantics created assignments, gave tutorials and lab sessions on Haskell.

Note: A full CV with references is available on request.