NLP researcher, lecturer and AI engineer
I am Nhu Vo, a PhD student in Computer Science (Collaborative Research Degree, University of Technology Sydney & VinUniversity) and a Research Assistant in NLP and LLMs. My research focuses on NLP and LLMs for biomedical and low-resource machine translation, and on the datasets and evaluation that make these systems reliable.
Education
- 2023–presentPhD, Computer Science
University of Technology Sydney & VinUniversity · Collaborative Research Degree
Supervised by Prof. Wray Buntine, Asst Prof. Dung D. Le, Prof. Massimo Piccardi, Dr Iñigo Jauregi Unanue
- 2018–2020MSc, Computer Science
University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMUS) · thesis Vietnamese Text Corpus Mining, 10/10
- 2013–2017BEd, Computer Science Teacher Education
Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMUE) · thesis 9.5/10
Scholarships
- 2025Vingroup Science and Technology Scholarship for Overseas Doctoral Study
- 2025UTS Collaborative Research Degree Program Scholarship
- 2023VinUniversity Full PhD Scholarship in Computer Science
- 2021VNU-HCM Postgraduate Scholarship
Skills and tools
- NLP & LLMs
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) · Large Language Models (LLMs) · Neural Machine Translation (NMT) · Named Entity Recognition (NER) · Cross-lingual transfer · Information extraction · Speech recognition (ASR) · Biomedical / clinical NLP · Low-resource & multilingual NLP
- LLM applications & agents
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) · Embeddings & vector search (pgvector) · Multi-agent orchestration · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Prompt engineering · LLM evaluation & guardrails · Human-in-the-loop · LangChain · LangGraph (applied) · LangSmith tracing
- Models & data
- Python · PyTorch · Hugging Face Transformers · LLM / NMT fine-tuning · Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) · LoRA / PEFT · Preference optimization (DPO) · Dataset & corpus construction · Annotation design (Label Studio) · Inter-annotator agreement · Benchmark design · BLEU · WER evaluation
- Engineering
- TypeScript · SQL · PostgreSQL · REST APIs · Docker · AWS · Next.js · React · Git
- AI-assisted development
- Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · Antigravity · VS Code · Orca (parallel coding agents) · Spec-first, test-gated code review
- Teaching & e-learning
- Course & curriculum design · Teaching in English · Thesis supervision · Moodle · Canvas · Google Classroom · Articulate Storyline 360 · SCORM
- Languages
- Vietnamese · English
Experience and education
researchteachingeducation
PhD, Computer Science (Collaborative Research Degree)
VinUniversity (from 2023) & University of Technology Sydney (from 2025)
NLP and LLMs for biomedical and low-resource MT.
Research Assistant & Project Coordinator
College of Engineering & Computer Science, VinUniversity
Coordinates Robust Vietnamese–English Clinical and Educational Medical Translation.
Project Manager
Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X), VinUniversity
Corpus projects on business speeches, anti-corruption discourse and the EV shift; M&E system for green transformation in Khanh Hoa.
Teaching Assistant; Visiting Faculty (2024–2025)
College of Engineering & Computer Science; College of Business and Management, VinUniversity
Lecturer
Faculty of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages and Information Technology (HUFLIT)
Visiting Lecturer
Faculty of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance (UEF)
Lecturer
Department of English Teaching Methodology, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU)
Led the ViLEC learner corpus project.
Visiting Lecturer
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMUS)
Researcher
Computational Linguistics Center, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMUS)
Vietnamese corpus construction; led VnC 1.0 (100M words).
MSc, Computer Science
University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMUS)
Thesis: Vietnamese Text Corpus Mining, graded 10/10.
Lecturer (Team Leader from 2019)
Information Technology Center, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMUE)
E-learning delivery, online courses, and teacher training.
BEd, Computer Science Teacher Education
Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMUE)
Thesis graded 9.5/10.