Van Tien Nguyen
Ph.D. researcher at UT San Antonio developing structure-aware and resource-efficient methods for quantum, hybrid quantum–classical, and deep learning systems.Recent Activities
Selected recent milestones from my activities timeline.
| Time | Activity | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| qBraid-MITRE-JonesTrading Quantum Challenge / GIC 2026 | Selected for Phase III as part of a competitive team. | |
| IBM Certified Quantum Computation using Qiskit v2.X Developer - Associate | Earned the IBM Professional Certification Program credential. | |
| 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. | |
| Presenter, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing | Presented work in Machine Learning from Challenging Data, National Harbor, MD. | |
| Quantum Rising Star Award | Received the Quantum Rising Star Award at the Inaugural Quantum Student Success Summit (QS3), Rice University, Houston, TX. | |
| QS3 Poster and Lightning Talk | Presented at the Inaugural Quantum Student Success Summit (QS3), Rice University, Houston, TX. |