Phong Nguyen,
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer,
FPT Software
Phong Nguyen is currently the Chief AI Officer of FPT Software, where plays a leading role in formulating the AI strategy of FPT Software. He is responsible for setting up research teams for fundamental and applied research topics such as Reinforcement Learning, Efficient Neural Modeling, Representation Learning for Code, sound-based Intelligent Inspection, Computer Vision based OCR and Image Generation. Furthermore, Phong and his teams are also working on developing AI products and solutions to serve customers in multiple industries.
Prior to joining FPT Software, Phong served as a Visiting Researcher at the Mila Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Quebec under the direction of Professor Yoshua Bengio – winner of 2018 AM Turing Award (awarded by the Computer Science Association and considered as the Nobel Prize in the field of computer science). At Mila, together with Professor Yoshua Bengio and Professor Aaron Courville, Phong researched many projects on Disentanglement, Anomaly Detection, and Reinforcement Learning. Prior to that, he served as an Artificial Intelligence researcher for Hitachi, based in Tokyo, Japan. His research focused on Machine Learning for Human Activity Recognition, and automatic control for various disciplines such as agriculture, robotics, and more.
