CV

Contact Information

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

Experience

  • 2025 - 2026
    Student Researcher
    Google DeepMind
    Improved LLM inference efficiency by enabling cross-model KV-cache compatibility via KV-cache fusion.
  • 2024 - 2025
    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Research
    Designed efficient architectures for long-context large language models (LLMs)
  • 2022 - 2023
    AI Research Resident
    VinAI Research (now Qualcomm AI)
    Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs)

Education

  • 2023 - NOW
    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, Cutlass CuTe, CuTeDSL, cuTile
Libraries: Hugging Face Ecosystem, vLLM, SGLang
Tools: Git, Bash, AWS, SLURM, RunAI

Academic Service

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

Awards

  • 2023
    Lokey Award
    Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon

    Prestigious departmental award.

  • 2022
    First Prize, BKAI-NAVER Challenge 2022
    BKAI-NAVER Challenge, Vietnam

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

  • 2020
    First Prize, SoICT-IBM Hackathon 2020
    SoICT-IBM Hackathon, Vietnam

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