Hieu Vu
Anthropic Fellow (via MATS) at MATS Research
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHieu Vu is an AI Research Lead with nine years of experience blending engineering and research to build practical, interpretable ML systems. He focuses on LLM interpretability and safety—authoring a NeurIPS Spotlight paper and publishing at ICLR—while leading activation steering, fine-tuning, and agent-enabled chatbot development in production. As co-creator of Kotaemon, an open-source local RAG tool with over 24k GitHub stars, he has a demonstrated knack for shipping widely used developer tooling. A top-ranked Computer Science graduate from Vietnam National University, he pairs mechanistic interpretability work with applied solutions like document intelligence and diffusion-based image generation. Colleagues describe him as a curious philomath who bridges deep scientific inquiry with hands-on product impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lower and Upper Secondary School Diploma , Specialized in Chemistry, Lower and Upper Secondary School Diploma , Specialized in Chemistry at Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the GiftedBachelor (Honours Programme), Computer Science, Bachelor (Honours Programme), Computer Science at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Vietnamese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (93)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
chatbot10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
obsidian10
pytorch10
open-source10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lone17/semantic-web-project
Nov 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
lone17/docqa
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
https://lone17.github.io/docqa/
Contributions:2 releases, 16 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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