Shaping the Document, Not the Model: Optimized Suffixes for Context Following
A 20-token suffix appended to a passage makes the model answer from it on nearly all items it resisted, with the model unchanged.
Current work
I am studying how to control language model behaviour in utilizing 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. I am curious how certain 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
MTP: A Dataset for Multi-Modal Turning Points in Casual Conversations
Human-annotated moments where emotions, decisions or perspectives shift in a conversation, with timestamps and visual-textual evidence.
HCMUS at MediaEval 2021: Ensembles of Action Recognition Networks with Prior Knowledge for Table Tennis Strokes Classification Task
Path
StudyResearchIndustry
- Ho Chi Minh City University of ScienceB.Sc. in Computer Science
- VinBigDataAI Engineer Resident
- VinBrainAI Engineer Intern
- VinUniversityResearch Assistant
- FPT Software AI CenterAI Research Resident
- MBZUAIM.Sc. in Natural Language Processing
- 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
Feel free to reach out via my email if you would like to chat or collaborate. I am especially interested in current, urgent problems at the frontier of the field.
Regarding work style, I take my time with a problem 🐢. Most of my effort goes into getting the question right before building anything, then working toward the answer one step at a time. As a quite OCD person, I always try to keep my work neat and minimal.
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