Curriculum Vitae

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Florida International University

Computer Science

• Advisors: Prof. Leonardo Bobadilla (Florida International University) and Prof. Cuong V. Nguyen (Durham University, United Kingdom)
• Research: Deep learning for environmental time series; axis-factored attention architectures; water-quality imputation and forecasting
• Passed PhD Qualifying Examination (April 2026)

Master of Science (M.S.)

Northeastern University

Artificial Intelligence

• GPA: 3.91 / 4.00
• Concentration: Artificial Intelligence
• Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Mining, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Healthcare Information Processing

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Vietnam National University — University of Science

Computer Science (Advanced Program)

• GPA: 3.65 / 4.00 (Advanced Program, instruction in English)
• Honors thesis: “Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks” — advised by Dr. Tien B. Dinh (Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, VNU-HCMUS)
• Rector’s Merit Award and Medal for outstanding academic achievement (2018)

Depth-wise Multivariate Imputation for Environmental Time Series

ACM SIGKDD 2026 (under peer review)

Trieu H. Vo, Cuong V. Nguyen, Ana Sophia Cavalcanti, Leonardo Bobadilla

Lake Water Temperature Modeling Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

ICLR 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, Singapore

Trieu H. Vo, Cuong V. Nguyen, Dongsheng Luo, Leonardo Bobadilla

PhD Research Assistant

Florida International University

• The NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) funds my doctoral research via the FIU–AI2ES ExpandAI partnership
• Developing Depth-wise Multivariate Imputation (DMI) — a deep-learning architecture with axis-factored attention for imputing missing measurements across multi-depth environmental sensor networks (see Publications)
• Designed and implemented a physics-informed neural network combining Koopman operator theory with LSTM recurrent networks for long-horizon lake water-temperature forecasting; published at ICLR 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
• Conducting empirical studies on real-world water-quality datasets, including the LakeBeD-US benchmark and a newly collected multi-depth dataset from Miami, FL

AI Engineer

Breathing.ai

• Engineered webcam-based heart-rate and stress detection using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), integrating MTTS-CAN, CHROM, and POS signal-processing methods
• Deployed a real-time contact-free physiological-sensing pipeline on Amazon Web Services, distributed as a Chrome extension for continuous wellbeing monitoring

AI Intern

Breathing.ai

• Developed machine-learning models (XGBoost, Random Forest, Convolutional Neural Networks) to predict physiological state from wearable-device and facial-video data
• Achieved 95% accuracy on real-time drowsiness detection using a CNN-based vision model

Private Tutor

Self-employed

• Private tutoring during the COVID-19 period while preparing for U.S. graduate study; ranked first in the VietAI Machine Learning Foundation Course (June 2019) and earned IELTS Academic 7.5 (January 2021).

AI Intern

KMS Technology, Inc.

• Built a production Résumé Parsing System for enterprise hiring, combining NLP classification with named-entity extraction (title-recognition F1 = 0.92; paragraph-classification F1 = 0.99)

VietAI Machine Learning Foundation Course — Top Student (full tuition refund)

VietAI (Vietnam AI Initiative)

Ranked first in a selective nationwide cohort of the VietAI (Vietnam AI Initiative) Machine Learning Foundation Course and received a full tuition refund for top-student standing.

Rector's Merit Award and Medal

Vietnam National University — University of Science (VNU-HCMUS)

The Rector of Vietnam National University — University of Science (VNU-HCMUS) conferred this top academic honor for outstanding achievement across the Computer Science (Advanced Program) undergraduate curriculum.

Academic Merit Scholarships — 4-year continuous recipient

Vietnam National University — University of Science

Merit-based academic scholarships awarded each semester by Vietnam National University — University of Science for sustained academic excellence in the Advanced Program (2014–2018).