Nguyen Tran Nguyen Khoi
AI Engineer
Summary
AI-focused Data Science student with hands-on experience in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech systems including speaker diarization. Developed production AI projects using PyTorch, with interest in scalable and production-ready systems. Passionate about building AI from research to deployment with minimal latency.
Projects & Experience
AI Engineer Intern — SEAL Code Team, VinCity CLB
Dec 2025 – Mar 2026Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Researched and deployed state-of-the-art ASR and NER architectures for the MeetingTrace system. Leveraged Librosa for audio feature extraction and Sherpa-onnx for edge-device inference optimization. Built an automated evaluation pipeline using Jiwer to minimize Word Error Rate across diverse Vietnamese accents.
Developer — "Ly Thai To" Election Chatbot
Mar 202601 Ly Thai To, Water Drop Park, HCMC
Deployed LLMs via Llama-cpp with quantization for high-performance local inference. Designed a candidate information retrieval system using Vector Space Modeling integrated with SQLite databases to mitigate AI hallucination.
Developer — HUFLIT Information Retrieval System
Dec 2025 – Apr 2026HUFLIT, Ho Chi Minh City
Built a full-text search engine from scratch applying TF-IDF weighting and Cosine Similarity for precision document ranking. Implemented the Rocchio Algorithm for relevance feedback to automatically refine queries based on user interactions.
Developer — Real-time Delivery Tracking System
Dec 2024 – Apr 2025Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Architected an event-driven microservices system using Apache Kafka, building high-throughput data streams between producers and consumers to handle thousands of order events per second in real time.
Research — EREL: Entity Recognition and Linking Algorithm
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025HUFLIT, Ho Chi Minh City
Addressed ambiguity disambiguation in Vietnamese text using coreference resolution to map entity mentions to a global knowledge base. Engineered large-scale data preprocessing pipelines for VLSP datasets including tokenization and feature engineering for PER/LOC/ORG tasks.
Education
HUFLIT
Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages — Information Technology
B.Sc. Data Science
2023 – Present
GPA: 3.78 / 4.0
TOEIC: ~665 / 990
Awards
Talent Scholarship — Top 1
Sophomore Year · HUFLIT
Highest academic achievement in the entire IT department
Effort Scholarship — Top 4
Freshman Year · HUFLIT
Outstanding academic improvement and determination
Research
Contributed to the city-level "Ly Thai To" Election Chatbot project — a fully offline LLM deployment at a major HCMC public civic event, serving thousands of users with zero cloud dependency.
Skills
AI & NLP
Speech & Data
Programming
Systems
Frameworks & Tools