Manh-Duy Nguyen

Duy graduated from the Bachelor program of Mathematics and Computer Science from Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City – University of Science as a salutatorian. His artificial intelligence journey started since sophomore year when I was selected for the 1-year student exchange program STEP@TUAT of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.

His project is about creating an Android application that can recognise the walking activity of users then change the font size of the user interface of their devices to make them can use smartphones easier while walking. Continuing with this field, he did his bachelor thesis about creating the virtual paper keyboard Android application for smartphones. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant in AISIA Research Lab focusing on applying machine learning techniques to the problem of set inversion.

Duy then joined the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit to study the epidemiology field. His main research was to investigate the burden of Japanese Encephalitis and its vaccination impact. He was also a member of the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium funded by Gavi, the vaccine alliance and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Beside doing research, Duy used to be a food tour guide in Ho Chi Minh City to fulfil his interest in eating local street food.

Duy currently a PhD student in Dublin City University and funded by SFI Center for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence. His thesis topic has not finally been decided yet but it will be about applying Artificial Intelligence to personal lifelogging data to investigate and discover the interesting insights.

Supervisors: Professor Cathal Gurrin