Summary
Thanh-son Nguyen is a research scientist based in Singapore with a decade of experience bridging natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining, particularly in multimodal emotion recognition, entity representation, and opinion mining. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore Management University, spent time as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon, and has been with A*STAR since 2018, bringing academic rigor to applied research. His background spans practical engineering—embedded C, hardware design, Linux administration, Docker, and languages like Go and Rust—enabling him to prototype end-to-end systems that combine model development with deployment considerations. Past projects include sentiment and entity-ranking work conducted during internships and collaborations at IBM and CMU, reflecting a consistent focus on opinionated content and entity-centric NLP. Colleagues value him for combining deep technical breadth with an inclination toward collaborative research and real-world system building.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Singapore Management University
Visiting PhD Student, Information Technology, Visiting PhD Student, Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Vietnamese, English