This page tracks selected academic, research, professional, and community milestones.
Activities
Academic, research, professional, and community 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. | |
| Qiskit Global Summer School Participant | Completed Qiskit Global Summer School programs and earned Quantum Excellence badges in 2024 and 2025. | |
| NSF Spring AI School Participant | Participated in NSF Spring AI School programs in San Antonio, TX. | |
| Quantum Collaborative Summit | Participated in the Quantum Collaborative Summit in San Antonio, TX. | |
| Graduate Research Assistant, MILOS Lab, UT San Antonio | Developing and evaluating hybrid quantum-classical learning workflows under realistic NISQ constraints, with tensor and multilinear neural modules, Qiskit/PennyLane benchmarking, and reproducible GPU/CPU experiment workflows. | |
| Research Engineer, Viettel High Technology Industries Corporation | Developed NLP models for named entity recognition, entity linking, summarization, and timeline generation using self-constructed datasets. Deployed models as microservices and integrated them into production pipelines with versioning, CI/CD, and containerization. | |
| Teaching Assistant, VNUHCMC-UIT | Supported tutorials, grading, and office hours for Introduction to Programming in C++ and Python. | |
| AI Camera Inspection Challenge | Awarded the consolation prize at the AI Camera Inspection Challenge organized by The Training Center of Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP Training), Vietnam. | |
| Research Assistant, AI Club, UIT | Worked on deep learning projects in computer vision and NLP, including infographic visual question answering, instance retrieval, formula detection, and reinforcement-learning game agents. | |
| Student of 5 Merits | Received the “Student of 5 Merits” distinction at the University of Information Technology for three consecutive years. | |
| National Mathematical Olympiad Competition | Received the consolation prize in Calculus at the National Mathematical Olympiad Competition organized by the Vietnam Mathematical Association. |