Vo Hoang Nhat Khang (Chris)

PhD Student in Natural Language Processing

Researching state-of-the-art AI methods in NLP and Multimodal Large Language Models at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

I graduated in Computer Science from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Vietnam National University (HCMUT-VNU) in an accelerated 3.5 years, and I am now pursuing a PhD in NLP at MBZUAI. Throughout my undergraduate journey under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tho T. Quan, I built strong foundations in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Multimodal Analysis, with programming experience in Python, C++, and Java.

My current interests focus on vision-language models, uncertainty estimation, and multimodal learning.

News

2026-03 - Paper accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference: When Morphology Hides in Plain Sight: Breaking the Isolation in Vietnamese and Beyond. Poster presentation. Project page · GitHub

2025-08 - Began PhD at MBZUAI under the guidance of Professor Timothy Baldwin and Dr. Yova Kementchedjhieva, focusing on uncertainty in multimodal learning and vision-language models (VLMs).

Research Publications

2026 - Catching the First Light of Tomorrow: A Hackathon-Based Framework for Introducing High School Students to AI Agents. AAAI Press · Feb 1, 2026.

2026 - Enhancing Water Conservation through Voice-Activated Smart Irrigation: A User-Centric Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Vietnam. Springer · Jan 1, 2026.

2025 - Revolutionizing Precise Low Back Pain Diagnosis via Contrastive Learning. Springer · Dec 31, 2025.

2025 - A Framework for LLM-Powered Database Construction: Design, Implementation, and Case Studies. Springer · Dec 31, 2025.

2025 - VIEACT-TTS-VC: A Vietnamese End-to-End Text-to-Speech and Voice Conversion Framework Using Low-Resource Adaptable Style Transfer. Springer · Oct 30, 2025.

2025 - When Large Language Models Meet Customer Feedback: A Case Study in Understanding and Analysis. ICICCT.

2024 - TI-JEPA: An Innovative Energy-based Joint Embedding Strategy for Text-Image Multimodal Systems. SOICT. GitHub

2024 - Revitalizing Bahnaric Language through Neural Machine Translation: Challenges, Strategies, and Promising Outcomes. AAAI Press. GitHub

Featured Projects

2026 - HuTieuBERT: ACL 2026 Main Conference paper on morpheme-aware Transformers for Vietnamese. Project page · GitHub

2025 - VitalFit Persona: AI-powered healthcare application with agentic AI capabilities. GitHub

2025 - V7: advanced AI system showcasing machine learning and AI implementations. GitHub

2025 - Synthetic Generator: data generation system for synthetic datasets for machine learning. GitHub

2025 - LumbarCLIP: multimodal CLIP-based framework for low back pain diagnosis. GitHub

2025 - Namizer: Vietnamese tokenizer that breaks words into 5 components. GitHub

2024 - TI-JEPA: text-image joint-embedding predictive architecture for multimodal fusion. GitHub

2024 - PhoCLIP: multimodal CLIP model for Vietnamese text and image processing. GitHub

2024 - HCMUT Chatbot: LLM and RAG-based chatbot for university academic admission. GitHub

Media Coverage & Recognition

Thanh Nien Newspaper - Early graduation with near-perfect thesis score. Article

Znews.vn - Young engineer uses AI to change Vietnamese typing. Article

OISP HCMUT - Bach Khoa International student shines in AmCham Scholarship 2024. Article

OISP HCMUT International - From barely in to top talented student. Article

OISP HCMUT - Rejecting New Zealand study abroad to choose Bach Khoa. Article

BK Quoc Te Facebook - Bach Khoa International Program feature. Video

Thanh Nien Facebook - Social media feature on academic achievements and early graduation. Post

BK Quoc Te Facebook - Academic excellence recognition. Post

Get In Touch

Email - nhatkhangdtp@gmail.com · Khang.Vo@mbzuai.ac.ae

Location - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Abu Dhabi, UAE (PhD studies)

Links - LinkedIn · GitHub · Google Scholar