🎓 I am applying to PhD programs for Fall 2027.

Current work

I am studying how to control the way language models use context.

Broad research interests

As language models become more capable, it matters more that we can understand and correct their behaviour so that it stays aligned with human values. This is what draws me to alignment, which I work on with a focus on AI safety in Prof. Timothy Baldwin's group at MBZUAI. My recent work found that a short suffix in the input can steer whether a model follows the given context. I want to understand how such behaviours are represented in a model's latent space, and whether mechanistic control and causal representation learning can give us reliable handles on them.

Papers

HCMUS at MediaEval 2021: Ensembles of Action Recognition Networks with Prior Knowledge for Table Tennis Strokes Classification Task

Trong-Tung Nguyen, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Gia-Bao Dinh Ho, Hai-Dang Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran

MediaEval 2021 Workshop

Path

StudyResearchIndustry
  1. Ho Chi Minh City University of ScienceB.Sc. in Computer Science
  2. VinBigDataAI Engineer Resident
  3. VinBrainAI Engineer Intern
  4. VinUniversityResearch Assistant
  5. FPT Software AI CenterAI Research Resident
  6. MBZUAIM.Sc. in Natural Language Processing
  7. University of Copenhagen, CopeNLUVisiting Student
20182020202220242026

Grants and awards

  • 2026DDSA Visit Grant, Danish Data Science Academy
  • 2024Diversity and Inclusion Award, ACL 2024
  • 2022VINIF Scholarship, Vingroup Innovation Foundation

Unsorted misc

Outside research, I love walking in nature 🌿, travelling ✈️, and soccer ⚽. My favorite player is Toni Kroos, who showed me that simplicity at the highest level is an art.

Updated October 2026