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
Organizer, Qiskit Fall Fest at UT San AntonioOrganizing the 2026 Qiskit Fall Fest at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
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.
Graduate Research Assistant, 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.