Hi all, I am

Cuong Manh
Nguyen

Fullstack AI Engineer

Speech NLP Computer Vision RecSys MLOps Bioinformatics

I close the gap between AI research and real-world impact. Since 2020 at Zalo AI (VNG), I've taken models from paper to production โ€” building LLMs, voice systems, and the infrastructure to serve them at scale. My north star: AI that improves everyday life, not just benchmark scores.

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Cuong Manh Nguyen

Experience

Work Experience

Research Intern

Apr 2025 โ€“ Apr 2026

HySonLab, University of Alabama ยท Remote

  • First author of TeBaAb: text-based antigen-conditioned antibody redesign โ€” accepted at Workshop AI for Science, NeurIPS 2025.
  • First author of review paper: Efficient Deep Learning for Medical Imaging (arXiv:2602.00910, with Prof. Truong-Son Hy).
  • Conducted research on deep learning methods for medical imaging and drug discovery, focusing on efficient model design and clinical applicability.
  • Investigated computational approaches for representation learning to bridge the gap between large-scale models and resource-constrained deployment environments.

AI Engineer

Feb 2020 โ€“ Present

Zalo AI, VNG Corporation ยท Ho Chi Minh City

  • End-to-End AI Engineering: Drove the applied research, evaluation, and large-scale production deployment of Vietnamese-optimized Large Language Models (KiLM) and speech processing systems (TTS, ASR).
  • MLOps & Infrastructure: Ensured high availability and system reliability by orchestrating deployments via Kubernetes and establishing comprehensive real-time monitoring and logging pipelines using Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Backend & System Design: Architected scalable, high-performance backend services utilizing Python and Golang. Refactored core service architectures, successfully reducing TTS system error rates by 80% and enhancing overall system fault tolerance.
  • Conducted in-depth research on Vietnamese text-to-speech (TTS) technologies, experimenting with state-of-the-art models such as Tacotron2, FastSpeech, and VITS.
  • Authored a scientific paper on multilingual speech synthesis, published in PRICAI 2021 as the first author.

Education

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Bachelor's in Information Technology

Post & Telecommunication Institute of Technology (PTIT) ยท Hanoi, Vietnam

Aug 2017 โ€“ Dec 2021  ยท  GPA: 3.16 / 4.0 (7.93 / 10)

Thesis: Combining User Specific and Global News Features for Neural News Recommendation โ€” Score: 10/10 ยท Top 0.01%

Certifications

IELTS 7.0

Mar 2025

British Council

Google ยท Coursera Professional Certificate

Google Project Management Certificate

DeepLearning.AI ยท Coursera

Neural Networks and Deep Learning Certificate

Projects

๐Ÿฅ‡ VLSP 2020 ยท 1st Prize

Vietnamese Text-to-Speech

End-to-end Vietnamese TTS system (Tacotron-2 + HiFiGAN + WaveGlow). MOS 3.77/4.22 โ€” best result at VLSP 2020. Research published at PRICAI 2021 (Q2). Featured in Znews.

TTS Deep Learning Speech Synthesis Python
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Zalo AI ยท 3.7M Cards

AI Greeting Card โ€” Zalo

AI card generator on Zalo โ€” personalized poetry, lyrics, rap via KiLM. Refactored Python โ†’ Golang for 500% throughput gain. 3.7M cards, 1.7M users in one Women's Day campaign.

Golang Python LLM Production
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Side Project ยท Live ๐ŸŒ™

Cosmic Corner

Vietnamese esoteric platform โ€” AI-powered tarot readings, tea leaf divination, horoscope & natal charts, 78-card flashcard system. Freemium with e-commerce shop.

AI Full Stack Vietnamese Side Project
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Research ยท HySonLab

AI for Medicine & Drug Discovery

Antibody redesign (TeBaAb, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop) and review of efficient deep learning for clinical medical imaging deployment.

Drug Discovery Medical AI Deep Learning Research
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Lifestyle

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Running

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Badminton

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Volunteer

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