Summary
Hung-phong Tran is an AI engineer with five years of hands-on experience building and deploying ML and LLM systems, currently contributing to an enterprise AI agentic platform at FPT Software AI Center. He co-founded the Lighthouse Association to bridge research and practice, led seminars and team challenges, and authored TrafficVLM which placed third in the AI City Challenge blind test and was accepted to the CVPR workshop. His work spans NLP, computer vision, generative models, and causal ML, with practical expertise in PyTorch, Hugging Face, data pipelines, and continuing-pretraining of LLMs (including outperforming ChatGPT on a proprietary benchmark). Beyond engineering, he brings leadership honed through volunteer initiatives and organization-building, plus a researcher’s lens for reproducible experiments and cross-modal modeling. Based in Hà Nội, he combines academic rigor from HUST with a product-minded drive to translate research into impactful, deployable solutions.
5 years of coding experience