Kien Nguyen
Research Scientist at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKien Nguyen is a Research Scientist based in Menlo Park with 10 years of experience building privacy-preserving data analysis and machine learning systems, currently deploying differential privacy and anonymization at scale on Meta’s Applied Privacy Tech team. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC and has a strong applied research background in location privacy, geospatial data mining, and mobile systems from roles at USC, Microsoft, and Facebook. Kien blends deep research rigor with product-minded engineering—he led full-stack development of the USC SCORE app for COVID-era clinical trials and has shipped production pipelines for user privacy at Meta. Early career work in recommender systems and mobile infrastructure across VNG, Archer, and startups gives him a pragmatic edge for productionizing algorithms. He’s comfortable moving from algorithms and proofs to distributed data pipelines and mobile clients, with a track record of translating privacy research into real-world services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaVinh Phuc Gifted Upper-Secondary SchoolEngineer’s Degree, Information Technology, Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology at Hanoi University of Science and Technology
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
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Github Skills (43)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
big-data10
hadoop10
java10
hive10
sql10
query-engine10
presto10
database10
speech-to-text9
react8
python8
deep-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
duykienvp/LocationEntropy
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
duykienvp/presto-meta
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:103 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
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