Honors and Awards
2026.07: Selected for the Benchmarks Resource Grant Program of the Kaggle Research Grant Program to develop an open-source benchmark for evaluating LLMs on context-aware biological pathway prioritization, receiving a 5× increase in AI Models quotas (from $10 to $50 daily and from $100 to $500 monthly).
2026.05: Awarded the Gold Reviewer Award (top 25% of reviewers) at ICML 2026 for outstanding review quality based on area chair evaluations.
2026.05: Reached 100+ scholarly citations across my research publications, reflecting growing academic use and recognition of my work.
2026.04: Selected by the Auburn University Graduate School as one of three university-wide nominees for the 2026 Google PhD Fellowship.
2019.04: Received an Honorable Mention in Linear Algebra at the 27th Vietnam Mathematics Olympiad for Students among 640 undergraduates representing 80 universities, academies, and colleges across Vietnam. To prepare for the competition, I taught myself linear algebra from scratch and competed as the first and only representative of my university, becoming the first Vietnamese non-engineering student in the history of the Olympiad.