Professional work
Researcher at the Center for Materials Data Science
- AI for scientific discovery: semantic data layers for language agents.
Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Agentic security: schema-constrained retrieval for natural language to KQL.
Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
- Security Copilot: agentic pipelines for classification and redaction.
Software Engineer Intern at Amazon
- Alexa Voice AI: voice shopping recommendations and RLHF data pipelines.
Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
- Microsoft Security: log compaction that keeps critical agent signals hot.
Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
- Azure Data: data partitioning and dynamic VM scaling for log processing.
Education
Case Western Reserve University
2024 — 2025Thesis: Ontology Matching with Knowledge Retrieval and Efficient Large Language Models, advised by Yinghui Wu.
Case Western Reserve University
2020 — 2024Graduated cum laude, with Dean's High Honors every semester.
Teaching:
- TA for CSDS 340 (Machine Learning), Spring 2025
- TA for CSDS 310 (Algorithms), Fall 2022
Graduate-level technical coursework:
- Large Language Models (CSDS 600)
- High Performance Data and Computing (CSDS 438)
- Data Mining (CSDS 435)
- Advanced Database Systems (CSDS 433)
- Applied Data Science Research (DSCI 452)
- Data Science Models and Prediction (DSCI 453)
Undergraduate technical coursework:
- Algorithms (CSDS 310)
- Machine Learning (CSDS 340)
- Artificial Intelligence (CSDS 391)
- Database Systems (CSDS 341)
- Data Science Systems (CSDS 312)
- Data Engineering (CSDS 351)
- Structured and Unstructured Data (CSDS 234)
- Data Privacy (CSDS 356)
- Operating Systems (CSDS 338)
- Computer Networks I (CSDS 325)
- Logic Design and Computer Organization (CSDS 281)
- Software Engineering (CSDS 393)
- Software Craftsmanship (CSDS 293)
- Data Structures (CSDS 233)
- Functional Programming in Java (CSDS 245)
- Full Stack Web Development (CSDS 221)
- Senior Project in Computer Science (CSDS 395)
- Elementary Number Theory (MATH 303)
- Linear Algebra (MATH 307)
- Discrete Mathematics (MATH 304)
- Probability (MATH 380)
- Theoretical Statistics I (STAT 345)
- Calculus for Science and Engineering III (MATH 223)
- Computational Economics (ECON 380)
Awards and honors
Computer science:
- ICPC East Central North America: Honorable Mention (2020–2023)
- LeetCode: top 1% in weekly contests, 1,000+ problems solved
Mathematics:
- Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition: Gold Medal, Senior Division
- Singapore Mathematical Olympiad: Silver Medal
- Mathematical Young Talent Search: Silver Medal
Other:
- Vietnam's Brainiest Kid: 6th place
Service
- Co-reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2024)
- Founding member, CWRU Competitive Programming Club (2023)
- Vice President, IEEE Hacker Society (2022)