Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Summary
👤
Senior
🎓
Top School
Dat Nguyen is a postdoctoral research scientist blending deep expertise in AI (LLMs and deep learning), programming languages, and software engineering to build interpreters and program synthesizers that bridge symbolic and neural approaches. With a CS PhD and a decade of experience across academia and industry—from Cinnamon AI to Harvard and Basis Research Institute—he focuses on "compiling symbols and neuro-symbols" to make expert AI systems practical. He has led program synthesis proofs-of-concept in Flax, designed curriculum and bootcamps for AI teams, and contributed to vision and relation-extraction research, signaling both hands-on engineering and mentorship strengths. Based in Boston, he pairs rigorous research with applied system-building, often operating at the intersection of compiler-like rigor and large-model flexibility.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Information and Communication Systems, Engineer's degree Information and Communication Systems at Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Dat Nguyen - Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences