🏫 Academic Experience

πŸŽ“ Education

  • Ph.D. Student in Information Science Aug 2024 – Present
    🏫 State University of New York at Albany, NY, USA
    πŸ”¬ Research Topic: Trustworthy Machine Learning and AI through the Lens of Privacy and Security
    πŸ“Š GPA: 4.00/4.00
  • Master in Analytics, Applied Machine Intelligence Aug 2021 – Jul 2023
    🏫 Northeastern University, MA, USA
    πŸ“ Thesis: Improving Safety through the Integration of Multi-sensor Fusion and Deep Learning-based Object Detection
    πŸ“Š GPA: 4.00/4.00

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Teaching & Student Mentorship Experience

  • Teaching Assistant & Student Mentor – State University of New York at Albany Jan 2025 – Present
    πŸ“˜ Teaching Assistant for CYBR-422: Trustworthy AI – conducting labs, grading, and providing student support.
    🧠 Mentored undergraduate interns across multiple research projects, including LLM watermarking, human-based evaluation system and public leaderboard, Transforming LLM Alignment through Explainable AI, and Powered Assessment of Wazuh for Obfuscated Threat Detection.
    🌞 Served as Chancellor’s Summer Research Excellence Mentor, supervising six undergraduate interns on AI security projects.
  • Teaching Assistant – Northeastern University Aug 2021 – Dec 2021
    πŸ“š Course: ALY-6010 – Introduction to Statistics and Probability
    Provided tutoring support and evaluated student performance through discussion grading.

πŸ† Honors & Awards

  • πŸ† CEAIS Seed Grant Award (Co-Investigator), IBM Center for Emerging AI Systems Nov 2025
    πŸ”’ IP Protection Invention Award, College of Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security Oct 2025
    ✈️ Travel Fund Award ($1,000), Research Foundation, SUNY Albany Oct 2025
    πŸ₯ˆ Second Prize, Best Poster – A LDP Watermark with Guaranteed Utility for LLMs, NTIR 2025 Apr 2025
    πŸŽ“ Valedictorian, Master in Analytics – Fall 2021 Cohort, Northeastern University Jul 2023
    πŸ… Hackathon Winner – OCR and Language Model for Form Autofill, Definity Financial Feb 2023
    🎯 Top 20 Finalist – VinUniversity Global Case Competition (VGCC) Dec 2021
    πŸ’° Merit-based Scholarship, Foreign Trade University 2013 & 2014
    🌟 Talent Incubation Scholarship (Top 5 students), Coca-Cola Vietnam & Thanh Nien News Nov 2013
    🌍 Ambassador – Exchange Participant, AIESEC Indonesia Jun–Aug 2013

🀝 Professional Services

    πŸŽͺ Organizer committee, NTIR Conference - Where Innovation Meets Information 2025 April 2025
    πŸ“– Journal Reviewer, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2025 Jan–May 2025
    πŸ“ Conference Reviewer, Computational Data and Social Networks 2024 Oct–Dec 2024