Phu Pham
AI Research Scientist at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhu Pham is an AI research scientist and PhD student at Purdue University with 12 years of experience bridging industry-grade engineering and cutting-edge machine learning research. His work spans multimodal deep learning—particularly the intersection of NLP and computer vision—with contributions to machine translation, object detection, image captioning, and foundation model architectures for world modeling. He has held roles from senior software engineer to research assistant and interned at Adobe, combining scalable training techniques with practical system-building. Now at MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models, he focuses on multimodal representation learning and scalable model training, bringing both academic rigor and production-minded engineering to large-scale AI problems. Notably, Phu’s background includes international research experience (Aalto University) and a track record of moving ideas from prototypes to deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Aalto UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Purdue University
English, Finnish, Vietnamese
Github Skills (40)
ui-components9
neural-machine-translation9
javascript9
ios9
ngx-translate9
ionic9
typescript9
language-model9
vue9
mobile9
react9
angular9
capacitor9
frontend9
html8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aalto-cbir/AIROBEST
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Repository for AIROBEST project
Contributions:113 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
IDEAS-Lab-Purdue/ideaslab.github.io
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
(Pre-release) An easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs, with automatic citations, GitHub tag imports, pre-built components, and more
Contributions:145 pushes in 2 years 8 months
templatepre-releasecitationsimportsflexible
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