Summary
Duc Pham is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Cornell Tech with nine years of research experience in statistical machine learning, deep learning, and large language models. He has interned at Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon working on chain-of-thought distillation, reinforcement learning for mathematical reasoning, and efficient test-time scaling for large reasoning models, respectively, and previously contributed to ML research at VinAI and the Ethereum Foundation. His work blends theoretical rigor with practical model-scaling techniques, with a track record of improving reasoning and coding capabilities in both small and large models. Based in New York, he brings cross-disciplinary experience spanning probabilistic modeling, scalable spectral clustering, and blockchain consensus research, reflecting an uncommon mix of ML foundations and distributed-systems thinking.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at San José State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Cornell University