Academic Timeline

Activities

A chronological record of selected academic, research, teaching, professional, and community milestones.

Academic Timeline

Research, teaching, awards, professional development, and community milestones.

TimeActivitySummary
Invited Speaker, Qiskit Fall Fest 2026Upcoming virtual seminar on quantum computing and Qiskit fundamentals at Qiskit Fall Fest 2026, University of California, Irvine.
VQBR Technical Paper PresentationPresented VQBR: Variational Quantum Bayesian Regression via Measurement-Based MAP Direction Recovery, coauthored with Panagiotis P. Markopoulos, in the Quantum Machine Learning Technical Papers Track at IEEE QCE 2026 in Toronto, Canada.
Attended IEEE Quantum Week 2026 (QCE)Attended the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from September 13 to 18, 2026.
ML-QRC Workshop Paper PresentationPresented Parameter-Efficient Multilinear Readout for Quantum Reservoir Computing (ML-QRC), coauthored with Panagiotis P. Markopoulos, at the Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 (QML@QCE) in Toronto, Canada.
Graduate School Academic Travel Fund, UT San AntonioAwarded US$750 to support presentation at IEEE Quantum Week 2026 (QCE) in Toronto, Canada, in September 2026.
Successful Dissertation Proposal DefenseSuccessfully defended my dissertation proposal, Structure-Aware and Resource-Efficient Quantum–Classical Learning, at UT San Antonio.
Selected by IBM Quantum to Host Qiskit Fall Fest 2026Selected by IBM Quantum to host Qiskit Fall Fest 2026 at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, UT San AntonioSupporting EE 3233: System Programming for Engineers through recitation and laboratory instruction, office hours, grading, and student support.
NSF Student Travel Grant, IEEE Quantum Week 2026Awarded 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 VenuesWork 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-TrainingCompleted IBM Quantum Development Week preparation and will support students during the July 2026 Qiskit Global Summer School.
qBraid-MITRE-JonesTrading Quantum Challenge / GIC 2026Selected for Phase III as part of a competitive team.
IBM Certified Quantum Computation using Qiskit v2.X Developer - AssociateEarned the IBM Professional Certification Program credential.
UT San Antonio Institutional Nominee, Google PhD FellowshipSelected as one of four UT San Antonio nominees for full submission to the 2026 Google PhD Fellowship in Quantum Computing.
Presenter, SPIE Defense + Commercial SensingPresented work in Machine Learning from Challenging Data, National Harbor, MD.
Quantum Rising Star AwardReceived the Quantum Rising Star Award at the Inaugural Quantum Student Success Summit (QS3), Rice University, Houston, TX.
QS3 Poster and Lightning TalkPresented at the Inaugural Quantum Student Success Summit (QS3), Rice University, Houston, TX.
Qiskit Advocate, Tier 1Active in the IBM Quantum / Qiskit community since August 2025; advanced to Tier 1 in July 2026.
Scribe, EXAIL WorkshopServed as a scribe at the EXAIL Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA.
Qiskit Global Summer School ParticipantCompleted Qiskit Global Summer School programs and earned Quantum Excellence badges in 2024 and 2025.
NSF Spring AI School ParticipantParticipated in NSF Spring AI School programs in San Antonio, TX.
Quantum Collaborative SummitParticipated in the Quantum Collaborative Summit in San Antonio, TX.
Doctoral Researcher, MILOS Lab, UT San AntonioDeveloping 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 CorporationDeveloped 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-UITSupported tutorials, grading, and office hours for Introduction to Programming in C++ and Python.
AI Camera Inspection ChallengeAwarded 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, UITWorked 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 MeritsReceived the “Student of 5 Merits” distinction at the University of Information Technology for three consecutive years.
National Mathematical Olympiad CompetitionReceived the consolation prize in Calculus at the National Mathematical Olympiad Competition organized by the Vietnam Mathematical Association.