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My academic and professional experience.

Contact Information

Name Nhi N. Truong
Professional Title ML Researcher & CS Student
Email nhitruong_2029@depauw.edu

Professional Summary

CS & Economics student at DePauw University with research experience at Stanford AI Lab. Published at NAACL and ICLR. Interested in machine learning, NLP, and time series forecasting.

Experience

  • 2023 - present

    Stanford, California, United States

    Machine Learning Research Engineer
    Stanford Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
    Advisor: Professor Sanmi Koyejo
    • Architected novel AI evaluation framework combining public benchmark design with private test content to prevent data contamination and improve stakeholder trust, achieving 40% reduction in benchmark gaming compared to traditional approaches
    • Built comprehensive evaluation framework with 10 NLP tasks (translation, summarization, Q&A, sentiment analysis) and 31 automated metrics, processing 50,000+ test samples to benchmark model performance, bias detection, and calibration accuracy
    • Published paper as co-first author at NAACL 2024, featured in The New York Times and Stanford HAI
  • 2023 - 2025

    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Machine Learning Research Engineer
    VNU-HCMUT Artificial Intelligence Lab
    Advisor: Professor Tho Quan
    • Optimized deep learning pipeline for time series prediction architecture by combining Transformer neural networks with Holt-Winters statistical methods, reducing prediction error by 15% and improving training efficiency by 60%
    • Led technical development as first author, managing 9-month development cycle from problem analysis to publication at ICLR 2024 Time Series for Health workshop
  • 2024 - 2024

    United States

    Software Engineering Contributor
    Google Summer of Code (The R Project for Statistical Computing)
    • Migrated animint2 R package from PhantomJS to Chrome, refactoring visualization pipeline to enable headless browser testing and automated screenshot capture
    • Implemented automated testing with testthat across Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS environments
    • Developed HTML table layout system for multi-plot arrangements, automated screenshot export using webshot2, and ported 50+ interactive visualizations to GitHub Pages gallery

Education

  • 2025 - 2029

    Greencastle, Indiana, United States

    Bachelor of Arts
    DePauw University
    Computer Science and Economics
    • Relevant Coursework: Software Development, Data Structures, Discrete Math, Calculus II, Calculus III
    • Affiliations: Management Fellows Program (Business Honors), Science Research Fellow Program, Information Technology Associate Program (ITAP), Honor Scholar

Projects

  • Intelligence Conversational System for Education

    Built NLP-powered chatbot using Python with automated Q&A on schedules, tuition, and school policies. Integrated with Facebook Messenger and reduced search time by 70%.

    • Team Leader & Lead Technical Writer

Skills

Programming (): Python, R, C++, Java
Machine Learning (): Large Language Models, Time Series Forecasting, Model Evaluation, NLP
Data Analysis (): Statistical Computing, Quantitative Research, Data Visualization
Tools (): Git, GitHub, animint2, webshot2, LaTeX, Google Suite, Microsoft Office