Nguyen Trong Dat

VNU University of Engineering and Technology

(+84) 035 213 35 66| [email protected] | linkedin | github

Education
VNU University of Engineering and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam
Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Information Systems Sep 2019 – June 2023
• GPA: 3.56/4.0

• Thesis: ENSEMBLING NOVEL ADAPTIVE LOSS FUNCTIONS IN PARALLEL FOR FACE-BASED

AUTHENTICATION, Supervised by Assoc. Prof. Ngoc-Hoa Nguyen, MSc. Hai-Dang Pham.

Experience
Undergraduate Student Researcher Jan 2020 – June 2023
Information Systems Faculty at VNU University of Engineering and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam
• Under mentorship by Assoc. Prof Hoa Nguyen Ngoc at the faculty, our team proposed an ensemble face recognition

model.
• Analyze, conduct experiments, evaluate the suggested solutions and write multiple scientific papers.

• Awarded First prizes from the Faculty of Information and Technology and VNU University of Engineering and

Technology and our result is public in 1 journal and 2 conferences.

Data Analyst Oct 2022 – Jan, 2023
Tired City Hanoi, Vietnam
• Analyze offline sale data using Python to find correlation among stores.

• Clean and transform data to create an insightful dataset.

• Visualize using box plot and histogram to find sale patterns.

• Correlation analysis between sale features and stores.

• Report methods and the result includes the performance of each store and correlation in CR among stores to

business department
Data Scientist Intern May 2022 – Nov 2022
TRAVA.FINANCE Hanoi, Vietnam
• Portfolio management – Cryptocurrency prediction

• Develop models (RNN, LSTM, BNN) to gain insight, and predict cryptocurrency trends and price.

• Apply technical analysis for feature selection.

• Research for factors that affect the price of crypto in order to provide a more informative dataset.

• Staking in Oraichain – Ranking Validator

• Build a dataset that contains specific on-chain information of validators.

• Develop a model that can rank validators in order to optimize profit for delegators

Skills
Technical Skills: Machine Learning (Pytorch, Scikit Learn, Tensorflow) · Data Analysis (Pandas, Numpy,
Matplotlib) · Databases (MySQL, MongoDB) · Python · Latex · Git

Languages: Vietnamese (native proficiency) · English (full professional proficiency)

Projects
µPEWFACE: Ensembling Weighted DCNNs in Parallel for Face-based Authentication | Pytorch Dec 2022
• Survey and analyze various loss functions in face-based authentication.

• Suggest two approaches using the ensemble method which are soft-voting and hard voting.

• Propose µPEWFACE as a low-training-cost model and apply parallel computing to tackle ensemble challenges.

• Conduct experiments and evaluation of the proposed solution on six well-known benchmarks: LFW, AgeDB-30,

CFP-FP, CALFW, CPLFW, and IJB-B.

Topic Detection – A self-project written in Python for Data Mining class | Keras Dec 2021
• Develop MLP model to solve topic detection problem.

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 • Learn how to deal with text data using tokenization and vectorization.
• Explore dataset through EDA process including visualization and statistic.
• Improve skewed dataset by SMOTE technique.
• Rank first in class in the private test.

Compare MongoDB and MySQL – A group project for DBMS class | Python, MySQL, MongoDB Dec 2021
• Define a solution to show the difference between MySQL and MongoDB in insertion performance.

• Use database driver to connect to two databases.

• Create a simple schema that has a table/collection containing 100 million records/documents.

• Generate data and optimize generation process.

• Log insertion performance for statistic process.

Travel website - A group project for Web Programming class | MySQL, FastAPI, React Nov 2021
• Manage Project by using Github Project and approach development in Waterfall Method.

• Define the business problem to design a database and set tasks for each member.

• Write authentication, CRUD API using FastAPI.

Honors and Awards

1st Prize – VNU University of Engineering and Technology Student Scientific Conference 2022
1st Prize – Faculty of Information Technology (VNU University of Engineering and Technology)
Student Scientific Conference 2023 with project: “Ensembling Novel Adaptive Loss Functions in
Parallel for Face-based Authentication”

Excellent Student Awards, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National

University in 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022.

Publication
1. A. D. Nguyen, D. T. Nguyen, H. N. Dao, H. H. Le, N. Q. Tran, Impact analysis of different effective loss
functions by using deep convolutional neural network for face recognition, in: Y.-H. Tseng, M. Katsurai, H. N.
Nguyen (Eds.), From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries, Springer
International Publishing, Cham, 2022, pp. 101–111. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-21756-2 8. (Scopus, WoS)

2. A. D. Nguyen, D. T. Nguyen, H. P. Du, H. N. Dao, H. N. Nguyen, Ensface: An ensemble method of deep

convolutional neural networks with novel effective loss functions for face recognition, in The 11th International
Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, SoICT 2022, Association for Computing
Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, p. 231–238. doi:10.1145/3568562.3568638. (Scopus, WoS)

3. Hanh P. Du, Anh D. Nguyen, Dat T. Nguyen, Hoa N. Nguyen, Dung H.P. Nguyen. A Novel Deep
Ensemble Learning to Enhance User Authentication in Autonomous Vehicles. Accepted to IEEE Transactions
on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2023.3270764, 2023 (Scopus-Q1,
SCI-E)

4. A.D. Nguyen, D.T. Nguyen, H.P. Du, H.N. Nguyen, “µPEWFace: Parallel Ensembling Weighted Deep
Convolutional Neural Networks with Novel Adaptive Loss Functions for Face-based Authentication”, is
submitted to Image and Vision Computing Journal, Elsevier, 02/2023 (Minor Revision)

Licenses and Certifications

TOEFL Issued Apr 2023 – Expires Apr 2025
Overall Score: 100
Neural Networks and Deep Learning Issued Feb 2022

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