Education

Ph.D., Computer Science - Language Technologies (2013-2017)

• Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Thesis title: Sentiment Analysis for Short Texts Based on Neural Networks
• Advisor: Yue Zhang
• GPA: 4.11/5.0 (Research Merit Award Winner)

B.Eng., Electronics and Telecommunication (2007-2011)

• Cantho University, Vietnam
• GPA: 3.65/4.0 (First-class honor)

Experience

Assistant Professor (09/2020 - now)

• Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Teach and research in NLP

Technological Advisor (09/2020 - now)

• Chata.ai, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Propose NLP models to solve practical problems in production.

Data Scientist (07/2018 - 09/2020)

• Chata.ai, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Join in the R&D team to develop cutting-edge nlp models for applying into production.

Postdoctoral Fellow (12/2017 - 06/2018)

• MITACS program at Université Laval, Quebec city, Quebec, Canada
• Manage a research team in the project of E-Community Health and Toxicity

Research Intern (04/2018 - 06/2018)

• MITACS program at Twohat Security, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
• Build several neural network modules in language and subversive detection.

Research Intern (01/2017-06/2017)

• Internship of the PhD program at University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Build a very deep neural network for text classification under the supervision of Prof. Diana Inkpen and Dr. Xiaodan Zhu

Teaching Assistant (09/2014-09/2016)

• at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Assist in teaching two courses: computational structures and database

Lecturer (06/2011-09/2013)

• at Cantho University, Vietnam
• Work as a lecturer to teach fundamental courses: programming languages, engineering mathematics, digital signal processing, etc.