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Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2013–2017         Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Computer Science

                                    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

                                    Chonnam National University

                                    South Korea

                                    - GPA:  4.38/4.5

                                    - Emphasis on Image Processing and Computer Vision.

2011–2013         Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science

                                    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

                                    Chonnam National University

                                    South Korea

                                    - GPA:  4.44/4.5

                                    - Emphasis on Image Processing and Computer Vision.

2006–2010         Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering

                                    Department of Information Technology

                                    University of Science

                                    Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

                                    - GPA:  8.41/10 (Fourth rank graduation)

                                    - Emphasis on Embedded Software

Knowledge and skills:

Working experience:

01/2023Present    Principal Computer Vision Engineer at Huawei Helsinki R&D

                                         – Research and develop AI-powered cloud systems:

    + Similar image search 

    + Vision language model and image generation 

    + Video search and video understanding.

                                             + Document image analysis.

09/202001/2023    Senior AI Scientist at Silo AI

                                         – Developing machine learning solutions for client Huawei, as well as identifying AI opportunities and creating AI development roadmaps through design sprints and other  workshops.:

    + Gesture recognition.

    + Video and audio analysis.

                                             + Facial expression recognition.

                                             + Document image analysis.

04/201808/2020     Researcher at Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu

                                         – Research methods and algorithms on:

                                             + Facial expression recognition.

                                             + 4D (3D and temporal) micro expression.

                                             + Supervision of MSc/PhD students and perform the teaching assistant duty.

9/2011–12/2017       Researcher at Chonnam National University

                                         – Research methods and algorithms on:

                                             + Vision tracking

                                             + Emotion recognition.

                                             + Deep Learning for Document Image Analysis.

                                         – Create demo programs on android phone using android SDK and NDK.

                                          Publish research papers on international conferences and journals.

9/2010–7/2011         Software Engineering at Renesas Design Vietnam Co., Ltd.

                                         – Working with video decoder:  H.264, MPEG-4

                                         – Develop software decoder and hardware decoder

                                         – Debug and test video decoder modules on embedded systems

9/2009–8/2010         Internship at SELab (Software Engineering Laboratory), Ho Chi Minh University of Science.

                                         – Develop the IDE for embedded software development using eclipse plugin: 

                                             + Modify Eclipse plugins

                                             + Integrate embedded C syntax

                                             + Connect embedded C compiler for building the source code

                                         – Develop  embedded debugger for ARM7TDMI-S:

                                             + Build an intermediate module to connect GDB and JTAG (using FTDI to communicate with the debugged device)

                                             + Debug C code successfully on ARM7TDMI-S

Projects:

09/2020-Present

04/201808/2020     4D (3D and temporal) micro expression

                                         – Detect and recognize voluntary and involuntary emotional responses of human based on 4D facial model.

9/2015–8/2017          Deep learning for document image processing

                                         – Study deep learning and its application to document images analysis and recognition

                                         – Related code

1/2016–12/2016       Trajectory recovery of Korean handwritten characters 

                                         – Recover the writing order from the 2D image for turning the offline recognition problem into the online one

                                         – Demonstration video

3/2013–10/2014       Optical music recognition on Smart phones

                                         – Detect and play the primitive symbols such as, musical notes, rest, dot, cleft, etc.

                                         – Demonstration video

                                         – Related code

4/2012–11/2012        Face tracking for smart phones

                                          – A real-time face tracking system using the mobile camera is proposed

                                          – The system can adapt with abrupt movements of the mobile phone and the tracked face

                                          – Demonstration video

1/2012–3/2012          Machine vision for Chinese chess playing robot

                                         – A robotic vision module is developed for providing the information of chess board and pieces by using a camera

                                         – This module generates the location of pieces in the image and the coordinate of them in the chess board

                                         – Related code

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