Phong Nguyen
Chief Technology Officer at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhong Nguyen is a technology executive and AI researcher with a decade of experience building AI strategy and research organizations across industry and academia. As Chief Technology Officer and former Chief AI Officer at FPT, he led partnerships with Landing AI and helped position FPT among founding members of the global AI Alliance, while establishing a Generative AI Center of Excellence that has been integrated into internal operations and client solutions. He blends deep technical roots—PhD in AI from The University of Tokyo and an MS from Carnegie Mellon—with hands-on R&D at Hitachi and visiting research at Mila alongside Yoshua Bengio, focusing on explainability, causality and disentangled representations. Phong is also entrepreneurial and cross-cultural, co-founding a student housing venture and delivering multi-national research programs spanning Japan, Canada, Vietnam and Singapore. Known for recruiting top AI talent and turning research into IP and products, he emphasizes human value and education as core drivers of AI adoption.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoBachelor of Arts with Honors Second Class, Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts with Honors Second Class, Business Administration at Coventry UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Vietnamese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
shutdown5
javascript4
miner4
representations4
react4
predictive4
q-learning3
visualization3
deep-q-learning2
actor-critic2
theano2
reinforcement-learning2
deep-reinforcement-learning2
ios1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xphongvn/dcase2020
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
My repo for dcase2020 challenge
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
dcase2020my-repo
cfedk/toja
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:51 pushes in 5 days
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