Education
Northeastern University
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, advised by Professor Raymond Fu
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, advised by Professor Raymond Fu
Fall 2024 - Present
Boston, MA, USA
Boston, MA, USA
FPT University
B.S. in Computer Engineering
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Fall 2015 - Spring 2019
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam
Employment
NEC Labs America
Research Intern. Worked on controllable robot policy advised by Manmohan Chandraker.
Research Intern. Worked on controllable robot policy advised by Manmohan Chandraker.
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
United States
United States
Adobe Research
Research Intern. Worked on controllable cinemagraph advised by Jae Shin Yoon.
Research Intern. Worked on controllable cinemagraph advised by Jae Shin Yoon.
May 2025 - Nov 2025
San Jose, CA, USA
San Jose, CA, USA
New Turing Institute
Teaching team (online). Designed the GRPO assignment and mentored students on final projects.
Teaching team (online). Designed the GRPO assignment and mentored students on final projects.
Sep 2025 - Nov 2025
Online
Online
VinAI Research
Research Resident, supervised by Dr. Anh Tran. Worked on CREPS, Anti-DreamBooth and SwiftBrush v2.
Research Resident, supervised by Dr. Anh Tran. Worked on CREPS, Anti-DreamBooth and SwiftBrush v2.
March 2022 - July 2024
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam
VietAI
Part-time lecturer. Taught Deep Learning and NLP courses; contributed to VietAI's GPT-J project.
Part-time lecturer. Taught Deep Learning and NLP courses; contributed to VietAI's GPT-J project.
Sep 2021 - May 2024
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam
Thanh Cong JSC
Machine Learning Engineer. Developed a pronunciation evaluation system for English learners and word-sense disambiguation for Vietnamese.
Machine Learning Engineer. Developed a pronunciation evaluation system for English learners and word-sense disambiguation for Vietnamese.
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam
Viettel Network Corporation
Data Engineer Intern. Analyzed and visualized data for the network traffic system and demand forecasting.
Data Engineer Intern. Analyzed and visualized data for the network traffic system and demand forecasting.
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam
Publications
* means equal contribution
VisiLock: Authorizing Instruction-based Image editing with Dual Score Distillation
Proposes the first access-control mechanism for instruction-based image editing without architectural changes.
CVPR, 2026
SwiftBrush v2: Make Your One-step Diffusion Model Better Than Its Teacher
An improved SwiftBrush that makes the one-step diffusion student outperform its multi-step teacher.
ECCV, 2024
Anti-DreamBooth: Protecting Users from Personalized Text-to-Image Synthesis
By perturbing users' images with adversarial noise, the images become unusable for DreamBooth to generate subject-driven, photorealistic forgeries.
ICCV, 2023
Efficient Scale-Invariant Generator with Column-Row Entangled Pixel Synthesis
An efficient and geometry-invariant generator for synthesizing high-resolution images without using spatial convolutions or a coarse-to-fine design.
CVPR, 2023