Vu Nguyen
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolVu Nguyen is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience applying Bayesian optimization, Gaussian processes, and deep reinforcement learning to real-world problems across industry and academia. Currently at Amazon, he has driven semi-supervised and causal approaches for eCommerce and pricing optimization, and earlier contributed ML research for quantum technologies and personalized brain-stimulation optimization at Oxford. His background blends a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on product-focused work—shipping seller-promotion and recommendation solutions for Prime Video as well as experimental-design tooling from his Deakin research. Comfortable moving models from blackbox optimization theory into production, he bridges rigorous probabilistic methods with scalable engineering. Based in Adelaide, he brings a track record of translating complex research into measurable business impact and often applies less obvious cross-domain insights (e.g., quantum ML techniques) to practical commercial problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Deakin UniversityBachelor Honour Degree Computer Science, Bachelor Honour Degree Computer Science at VNUHCM - University of Science
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (20)
xgboost-classifier10
semi-supervised-learning9
tabular8
robotics7
science6
python6
polars5
machine-learning5
dataframes5
labeling5
bayesian4
reinforcement-learning4
optimization3
hugo3
multi-objective-optimization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ntienvu/ACML2016_BNMC
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
ntienvu/abnormal_detection_video_surveillance
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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