CV
Contact Information
| Name | Chien Van Nguyen |
| chiennv.hust@gmail.com / chienn@uoregon.edu |
Experience
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Jun 2026 - Sep 2026 Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Developing speculative decoding methods for efficient LLM inference.
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Sep 2025 - Jan 2026 Student Researcher
Google DeepMind
Improved LLM inference efficiency by enabling cross-model KV-cache compatibility via KV-cache fusion.
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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.
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Mar 2022 - Sep 2023 AI Research Resident
VinAI Research (now Qualcomm AI)
Worked on Information Extraction and multilingual Large Language Models.
Education
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2023 - Present Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Oregon
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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
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2026 Gurdeep Pall Graduate Student Fellowship
University of Oregon
Awarded to outstanding graduate students for demonstrating exceptional academic and research excellence.
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2023-24 Lokey Graduate Science Award
University of Oregon
Prestigious university-wide recognition granted to top-tier graduate students in science fields.
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2022 First Prize, BKAI–NAVER Hackathon Challenge
NAVER Corporation & BKAI
Ranked 1st among 80 teams in Intent Detection and Slot Filling.
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2020 First Prize, SoICT–IBM Hackathon
IBM & SoICT
Ranked 1st out of 20 finalist projects for developing an open-domain chatbot.