highlights
career, school, and a few side things along the way.
- jul 2025 - jul 2026
ai engineer
readme · sf bay areaworked on ai for technical documentation. remote from sydney, which means shipping by day and occasionally waking up to a very active us thread.
- mar 2025 - jul 2026
forward deployed engineer
lyra · sydneybuilt ai products for us startups. the fde life: scoping, shipping, and occasionally getting called "the ai guy" by my co-workers.
- dec 2024 - feb 2025
ml engineer intern
canva · sydneyworked on ai for design relayout - basically, teaching a model to move objects around so humans don't have to. three months of summer flying between adelaide and sydney didn't hurt either.
- aug 2024 - jul 2025
student researcher
aiml · adelaidebbvisual lab under prof. minh hoai nguyen. worked on ai for visual counting - turns out counting not as easy as it looks, especially for neural nets.
- jun 2024 - aug 2024
ai trainee
cinnamon ai · hanoispent a short stint in vietnam learning ai engineering and building projects. bonus: getting to eat phở for breakfast on weekdays again.
- feb 2024 - oct 2024
research intern
mit media lab · bostonmit adelaide living lab under dr. tobin south. worked on backdoor attacks in ai models - the fun kind of security research and random yapping every week.
- 2024
project manager
organized a datathon and ran a quant competition with the team - short stint, but a reminder that projects are harder on the people side than the technical side.
- 2023 - 2025
president
helped run aums for two years. ran events, signed off on t-shirt designs, and learned that getting maths students into a room is somehow harder than the maths itself.
- nov 2023 - feb 2024
research intern
aiml · adelaidesummer research under dr. antonios perperidis on ml for 4d medical imaging. my first real taste of research, and the moment i realized how much i didn't know.
- feb 2023 - present
bs in computer science
final-year cs student. started out doing maths-y things, drifted into ai, then quant, then startups - in roughly that order.
- sep 2022 - apr 2023
president
ran the maths club at my high school - problem sets, sessions, and rounding up people who actually wanted to do extra maths for fun.
- jun 2022 - jun 2023
co-organizer
organized the first ever tedx event for my highschool. ran around hanoi finding venues, ordering merch, chasing speakers, mentoring the team. it was fun!
- apr 2023
meritorious prize
spent a weekend with three teammates wrestling a real-world problem into a maths model, then writing it up like our lives depended on it. ended up with a meritorious prize.
- jan 2023
third prize
vietnam national mathematical olympiadyears of mathematical olympiad training (skipped 50% of classes) condensed into one long exam - came out with a third prize.
- sep 2020 - jun 2023
mathematics
seven years deep in olympiad maths, skipping classes for soccer, making friends i still text now - and figuring out i liked code too.