Dat Nguyen
Principal Researcher at Qualcomm
Hà Nội, Vietnam
Summary
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Top SchoolDat Nguyen is a Principal Researcher at Qualcomm AI Research in Vietnam with over a decade of experience building cutting-edge NLP and foundation models. He previously led NLP research at VinAI and held research fellowships at the University of Melbourne after earning a PhD in Computer Science from Macquarie University. Dat is the author of 70 peer-reviewed papers with 6,000+ citations and an h-index of 35, and he has a track record of releasing widely used ML/NLP toolkits and datasets. He created several high-impact language models for Vietnamese and social media text—PhoGPT, RecGPT, PhoBERT, BARTpho, XPhoneBERT and BERTweet—with millions of downloads, bridging academic rigor and practical adoption. Based in Hà Nội, he combines leadership in applied research with hands-on model engineering for low-resource languages and domain-specific applications. An understated strength is his consistent focus on making research artifacts reusable, which has driven broad community and industry uptake.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (Hons), Bachelor's degree (Hons) at University of Engineering and Technology, VNU HanoiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Macquarie University
Github Skills (90)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
word-segmentation10
flax10
datasets10
deep-learning10
phonetics10
sequence-to-sequence10
segment10
machine-translation10
in-progress10
pos10
conformer10
ctc10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VinAIResearch/PhoNLP
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 6 months
VinAIResearch/PhoNER_COVID19
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
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