CV

Contact Information

Name Chien Van Nguyen
Email chiennv.hust@gmail.com / chienn@uoregon.edu

Experience

  • Jun 2026 - Sep 2026
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Developing speculative decoding methods for efficient LLM inference.
  • Sep 2025 - Jan 2026
    Student Researcher
    Google DeepMind
    Improved LLM inference efficiency by enabling cross-model KV-cache compatibility via KV-cache fusion.
  • Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Research
    Developed efficient architectures and training methods for long-context LLMs and small multilingual language models under limited-data constraints.
  • Mar 2022 - Sep 2023
    AI Research Resident
    VinAI Research (now Qualcomm AI)
    Worked on Information Extraction and multilingual Large Language Models.

Education

  • 2023 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    University of Oregon
  • 2018 - 2023
    B.S. in Computer Science
    Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Skills

Languages & Frameworks: C/C++, Python, Pytorch, Jax/Flax, CUDA, Triton, CuTeDSL
Libraries: Hugging Face Ecosystem, vLLM, SGLang
Tools: Git, Bash, AWS, SLURM, RunAI

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: NAACL, EMNLP, ACL, AAAI, ICLR, NeurIPS

Awards

  • 2026
    Gurdeep Pall Graduate Student Fellowship
    University of Oregon

    Awarded to outstanding graduate students for demonstrating exceptional academic and research excellence.

  • 2023-24
    Lokey Graduate Science Award
    University of Oregon

    Prestigious university-wide recognition granted to top-tier graduate students in science fields.

  • 2022
    First Prize, BKAI–NAVER Hackathon Challenge
    NAVER Corporation & BKAI

    Ranked 1st among 80 teams in Intent Detection and Slot Filling.

  • 2020
    First Prize, SoICT–IBM Hackathon
    IBM & SoICT

    Ranked 1st out of 20 finalist projects for developing an open-domain chatbot.