I’m a Ph.D. student at UW–Madison, advised by AnHai Doan.
My research lies at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Data Management. I'm working on keyword search for table discovery in data catalogs, where only metadata is available. My goal is to build modern retrieval systems that are both accurate and practical for commodity hardware.

Contact me at minh.phan@wisc.edu.

Background

I grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam, studied in the chemistry track at HSGS, took a gap semester organizing hackathons and working at a startup, completed my undergraduate degree in computer science at UIUC, and now I’m at UW Madison doing research in databases and applied machine learning.

Publications

None so far.

Experience

My full CV is available here (last updated Jan 15, 2025).

SWE Intern, Amazon — Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
SWE Intern, Synchrony — Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023.

Writings

Random topics 😅

April 5, 2022 — Frederic Chopin in Paris.
June 4, 2021 — My first semester at UIUC: Covid-19 and online school.