Hi all, I am
Cuong Manh
Nguyen
Fullstack AI Engineer
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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What I have done so far
Experience
Work Experience
Research Intern
Apr 2025 โ Apr 2026HySonLab, 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 PresentZalo 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
Bachelor's in Information Technology
Post & Telecommunication Institute of Technology (PTIT) ยท Hanoi, Vietnam
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 2025British Council
What I have built
Projects
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.
View details โAI 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.
View details โCosmic Corner
Vietnamese esoteric platform โ AI-powered tarot readings, tea leaf divination, horoscope & natal charts, 78-card flashcard system. Freemium with e-commerce shop.
View details โAI for Medicine & Drug Discovery
Antibody redesign (TeBaAb, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop) and review of efficient deep learning for clinical medical imaging deployment.
View details โLife outside code