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Hoang Nguyen

Gainesville,FL

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Content Writer in Natural Science department

Scientiador - Love for Science
01.2023 - Current
  • Composed bi-weekly deeply-focused academic posts about natural sciences like Psychology, Astrology, and Biology for high school students to provoke their passion and curiosity about Science
  • Organized a workshop on 'Scientific Prism' which focused on students with passion in Science and helped them explore the world through our self-designed experiments and science tricks, attracting 60 participants.

Member of Math department

2School Guideline
09.2022 - Current
  • Composed posts for a Facebook group to help 9th graders gain a better understanding of the 10th grade entrance exam, which attracted 200 active participants
  • Organized the 'Sao Bac Dau' workshop where Guest Speakers shared their experience on the entrance exams of the three gifted high schools in Ho Chi Minh City, resulting in 150 participants
  • Composed a 20-minute speech analyzing High School for the Gifted entrance exam and providing specialized documents for listeners
  • Interacted and answered questions from the participants, including teachers and students who are interested in specializing in Mathematics, resulted in 5 star feedback by Google Form after the workshop.

Member of Math department

The Gifted Battlefield
09.2022 - Current
  • Designed and composed two PDF online documents, including exercises and tips, on Geometry, Algebra, Inequalities and Combinatorics to help students prepare for the National Competition
  • Organized mock tests for students who want to take the 10th grade exam to major in Mathematics, the Vietnamese Mathematical Olympiad, and the Team Selection Tests (for students who want to join the school's team to compete in national and international competitions.

Head of Tutoring Department

The Loving Heart
06.2022 - Current
  • Organized a one-on-one weekly tutoring campaign for 16 children from grades 6 to 12 at Ba Chieu orphanage
  • Recruited and trained 17 volunteers tutoring the children throughout the school year
  • Raised 3,000,000 VND by selling homemade biscuits and bracelets
  • Organized the Mid-Autumn Festival and Christmas Party for 18 children at the orphanage
  • Taught two students in 9th and 10th grade in Mathematics and Science.

Vice Head of Public Relation - External Relation department

The Psychealer
09.2021 - Current
  • Composed bi-weekly social media posts about eating disorders and peer pressure in high school students to increase awareness about mental health among Vietnamese youths
  • Organized a workshop on 'How to define a toxic relationship?' and invited lecturers from the VNUHCM-University of Social Sciences and Humanities to be guest speakers, attracting 100 participants
  • Organized a workshop on 'Misconception' about Autism, OCD and ADHD among students and invited speakers from Saigon Hospital of Pediatrics 2, attracting 50 participants.

Research Assistant and Co Author

A Happier Me Lab
07.2023 - 09.2023
  • Recruited 210 participants to investigate whether the entertainment content they consumed would affect their mental well-being
  • Administered the experimental design by having participants watch one of three films (on Financial Burden, Family Issues, and Peer Pressure) before they responded to surveys on their mental health
  • Analyzed the impact of 13 variables on the participants' stress-levels using Multivariable Linear Regression
  • Composed a research paper on 'How to help adolescents control their feelings?' using the Participatory Action Research (PAR) framework
  • Organized a workshop on 'Adolescent's Peer Pressure' with guest speakers from the University of Social Science - Humanities of Vietnam National University.

Researcher

Eating Disorders Under the Biopsychosocial Lens
06.2023 - 07.2023
  • Learned about abnormal psychology, eating disorders, and the biopsychosocial model
  • Conducted critical analysis and review of more than 10 scientific papers on the relationship between social media platforms, body image dissatisfaction, and the heightened risk of eating disorders among adolescents
  • Developed and executed an experimental study aimed at investigating the impact of Instagram photos featuring unrealistic body images on Vietnamese teenagers aged 15 to 18
  • Designed a questionnaire with likert-scale to evaluate participants' potential of having body image problems
  • Analyzed the data using a one-tailed independent t-test
  • Presented the research findings at Otus Summer Fair.

Researcher and First Author

Mathematical modeling
06.2023 - 07.2023
  • Learned mathematical modeling and multivariable linear regression
  • Constructed a multivariable linear regression model to predict obesity rates across 50 US states
  • Reviewed over 5 research papers on the Manifold Learning Group to determine that Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) is the most suitable method to flatten multiple dimensions for this study
  • Employed the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) to assess both a training subset (comprising 64% of the data) and a testing subset (comprising 36% of the data) to avoid overfitting
  • Utilized RStudio and Xquartz to visualize the data in a 2D format
  • Presented the research findings at the Otus Summer Fair.

Research Assistant

Brain Health Lab
07.2022 - 09.2022
  • Collected ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) on 80 participants and analyzed the data to determine the amount of cortisol released as a result of stress
  • Analyzed the correlation between stress levels and the amount of cortisol released
  • Conducted a survey to assess 30 potential consumers' preferred price for a novel equipment designed by the lab that can measure cortisol levels to determine stress.

Competitor and First Author

AI Challenge 2023 - Ho Chi Minh City
09.2023
  • Evaluated the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) Model developed by OpenAI to assess its effectiveness in retrieving specific images embedded in videos from a user's text-query
  • Preprocessed a dataset of 100-watch-hours from 290 videos of daily news and documentaries
  • Applied Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to encode images and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to encode text queries from the training subsets
  • Combined them into the CLIP Model and used the similarity score to choose the best fit result
  • Optimized the model using Batch, which processes multiple images at a time, to reduce execution time
  • Ranked 12 out of 50 teams in the competition.

Competitor and First Author

The eMission - Math Modelling Competition
08.2023
  • Constructed a multivariable linear regression model to predict the damage to crop production by typhoons in the Northern region of Vietnam
  • Collected data on typhoons that hit Vietnam from 2000-2020 from the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration website
  • Used Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce the data size
  • Evaluated the shortages of the model by analyzing the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) in each subset
  • Ranked top 11 out of 80 teams participating in the first round.

Competitor and First Author

The eMission - Math Modelling Competition
08.2023
  • Constructed a K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Regression model to predict forest loss using Google Colab as the programming site and Python as the main coding language
  • Collected data of forest loss from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)
  • Evaluated the model using Learning Curve and Cross Validation Score, resulting in the model having a low chance of Overfitting, with 80% response variables being explained by explanatory variables
  • Constructed the combined model to predict the area covered by forest from 2002, which involved a sinusoidal function for the forest loss, a linear equation for the forest growth, and a 4-degree-polynomial function for the natural forest
  • Ranked top 5 overall out of 30 teams competing in the second round.

Attendant

PiMA 2023: Applied Mathematics in Bioinformatics
07.2023
  • Attended a Probability and Statistic class on Bayes theorem, Monty Hall problem, Rabin-Karp and Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for Genetic String Matching problem, and applied Eulerian path for DNA Sequencing Assembly using Python
  • Attended Mr
  • Thien Le's lecture, a Computer Science PhD at MIT, on Algorithmic Biology, which covered Phylogenetic Tree estimation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, and clustering analyses
  • Attended Mr
  • Vuong Hy's lecture, engineer at Bioturing, on Single-Cell Research, showcasing BBrowserX and Talk2Data platforms
  • Distinguished between local and global alignment, substring search using suffix arrays/trees and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform in Genetic Sequence Alignment
  • Applied greedy algorithm, Overlap Layout Consensus, and de Bruijn graph in De Novo Assembly.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Florida
05-2028

Mathematics

VNU-HCMC: High School for The Gifted
05.2024

Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Software and Hardware Programming
  • Student Tutoring
  • Project Management
  • Experimental Design
  • Statistical Analysis

Awards

Top 5: Math Modelling Contest "The eMission", Ha Noi Math Modelling Federation and VinUniversity, National, 2023

Gold Award in Mathematics: International Mathematics Olympiad Competition of Southeast Asia, National, National, 2023

Bronze Award in Mathematics: National Philippines International Mathematical Olympiad, National, National, 2023

First prize in Mathematics: Ho Chi Minh city Merit Competition, Regional, 2021

Timeline

Competitor and First Author

AI Challenge 2023 - Ho Chi Minh City
09.2023

Competitor and First Author

The eMission - Math Modelling Competition
08.2023

Competitor and First Author

The eMission - Math Modelling Competition
08.2023

Research Assistant and Co Author

A Happier Me Lab
07.2023 - 09.2023

Attendant

PiMA 2023: Applied Mathematics in Bioinformatics
07.2023

Researcher

Eating Disorders Under the Biopsychosocial Lens
06.2023 - 07.2023

Researcher and First Author

Mathematical modeling
06.2023 - 07.2023

Content Writer in Natural Science department

Scientiador - Love for Science
01.2023 - Current

Member of Math department

2School Guideline
09.2022 - Current

Member of Math department

The Gifted Battlefield
09.2022 - Current

Research Assistant

Brain Health Lab
07.2022 - 09.2022

Head of Tutoring Department

The Loving Heart
06.2022 - Current

Vice Head of Public Relation - External Relation department

The Psychealer
09.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Florida

Mathematics

VNU-HCMC: High School for The Gifted

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