Background

I like building stuffs, whether it is technology or community.

I grew up in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. "Bún Chả" is my favorite Viet dish.
I attended the chemistry specialized class at HUS High School for Gifted Students. I did think of becoming a chemist, but eventually fell in love with programming.
I took a gap semester before college and just do random stuffs. I organized big hackathons like HackCovy, worked for a tech startup, interned at a big event organizing vendor, and occasionally edit videos. I'm amazed seeing technology's presence in all part of life, and that makes me want to become a computer scientist.
I did my undergrad at UIUC and worked across different areas of computer science. Had a lot of fun, met cool people, but eventually decided it was time to leave the cornfields. I wanted to do research and thought better ML models and better infrastructure for ML would be the next crucial thing.
So here I am at Wisconsin. I will do some innovative work, become an expert in something, and make some real impact, then hopefully graduate :-).

Publications

None so far.

Selected writings on random topics. Each piece are kept as it was when originally published.