Van Tien Nguyen
Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at UT San Antonio and graduate researcher in the MILOS Lab. I work on tensor-structured quantum and hybrid quantum-classical machine learning, with an emphasis on efficient models, practical NISQ-era workflows, and reproducible experimentation.Recent Activities
Selected recent milestones from my activities timeline.
| Time | Activity | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| Qiskit Advocate | Active in the IBM Quantum / Qiskit community. | |
| Scribe, EXAIL Workshop | Served as a scribe at the EXAIL Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA. |