Van Tien Nguyen

Doctoral candidate at UT San Antonio developing structure-aware and resource-efficient methods for quantum, hybrid quantum–classical, and deep learning systems.

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Time	Activity	Summary
Aug. 28, 2026	Successful Dissertation Proposal Defense	Successfully defended my dissertation proposal, Structure-Aware and Resource-Efficient Quantum–Classical Learning, at UT San Antonio.
Aug. 2026 - Present	Graduate Teaching Assistant, UT San Antonio	Supporting EE 3233: System Programming for Engineers through recitation and laboratory instruction, office hours, grading, and student support.
2026	Organizer, Qiskit Fall Fest at UT San Antonio	Organizing the 2026 Qiskit Fall Fest at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
July 2026	NSF Student Travel Grant, IEEE Quantum Week 2026	Awarded up to US$1,250 in reimbursable travel support to attend and present accepted work at IEEE QCE 2026 in Toronto, Canada.
July 2026	Three Papers Accepted for 2026 Venues	Work accepted at IEEE QCE’s Quantum Machine Learning Technical Papers Track, QML@QCE, and the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
July 2026	Qiskit Global Summer School Mentor-in-Training	Completed IBM Quantum Development Week preparation and will support students during the July 2026 Qiskit Global Summer School.
June 2026	qBraid-MITRE-JonesTrading Quantum Challenge / GIC 2026	Selected for Phase III as part of a competitive team.
June 2026	IBM Certified Quantum Computation using Qiskit v2.X Developer - Associate	Earned the IBM Professional Certification Program credential.
Apr. 2026	UT San Antonio Institutional Nominee, Google PhD Fellowship	Selected as one of four UT San Antonio nominees for full submission to the 2026 Google PhD Fellowship in Quantum Computing.