Summary
Huy Nguyen is an AI research manager and lecturer with 10+ years driving NLP, speech processing, deep learning and recommendation projects across Vietnam’s leading tech organizations. He combines hands-on research—authoring journal work on textual similarity during his tenure at Toshiba and earning a PhD-level background from JAIST—with product-focused leadership roles at VNG, Vingroup Big Data Institute, and now MoMo. As a university lecturer at VNU-HCMUS since 2011, he teaches machine learning, algorithms and web science, bridging academic rigor with applied industry solutions. Known for shipping LLM and deep-learning systems in production, he thrives at the intersection of research and engineering, moving models from prototype to scalable services. Colleagues describe him as methodical and wholehearted in his work—he treats each data problem as both a scientific question and a practical engineering challenge.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) NLP deep learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) NLP deep learning at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at VNUHCM - University of Science
English, Japanese, Vietnamese