Nguyen Minh Quang
AI Engineer & Research Lead · VIESG
Experience & Projects
Developer — Interactive Robot
Tet 2025Nguyen Hue Walking Street, HCMC, Vietnam
- •Implemented MediaPipe to enable real-time human-robot interaction for tourists during Tet holiday 2025.
- •Attracted significant public attention — 12,000+ visitors per day — resulting in feature mentions across major national newspapers including Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre, Lao Dong.
Project Leader — Offline Election Information Chatbot
202501 Ly Thai To, Water Drop Park, HCMC, Vietnam
- •Developed an AI virtual assistant to provide information and answer public queries related to national elections for the 'Học sinh, sinh viên Thành phố Hồ Chí trao niềm tin, gửi kì vọng' community event.
- •Contributed to Text-to-SQL prompt engineering modules and output smoothing algorithms.
- •AI/ML Stack: Qwen2.5-7B, Llama-cpp-python, ChromaDB, BAAI/bge-m3, BM25s, BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3.
- •Infrastructure: FastAPI, Uvicorn, SSE (Server-Sent Events), Faster-Whisper (ASR), Web Speech API (TTS).
Project Leader — Automated Student Card Image Processing
2024HUFLIT, HCMC, Vietnam
- •Built and deployed an image processing pipeline to handle and format thousands of student photos for the university's student ID cards.
- •Technologies: Python, InsightFace (RetinaFace), PaddleOCR, BiRefNet, BiSeNet, Streamlit.
Research & Publications
“Toward a Hybrid Efficient Edge-Host Smart Helmet System for Drowsiness Detection and Accident Verification using ESP32-S3”
The 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering
“Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection for Edge Devices: A Mixed-Precision NMS-Free Approach”
The 2026 Conference on Applications of Technology, Automation and Civil Engineering
“An Android-Based Edge Device for Footwear Defect Inspection Toward a Portable yet Powerful Approach”
The 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
“A Multi-Modal Approach for Hydrogen Leakage Monitoring based on Thermal Vision”
2026 International Conference on Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
Education
HUFLIT
Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages — Information Technology
B.Sc. Information Technology
Major: Data Science
Expected: 04/2027
TOEIC: 930/990
Awards
Best Paper Award
ATAC 2026 — The 2026 Conference on Applications of Technology, Automation and Civil Engineering
3rd Prize & Best Application Idea Award
ROBOG 2024
Consolation Prize
IT Got Talent 2025 Competition
Top 9 (U-I Category) & Top 20 (University Category)
Bach Khoa Innovation 2025 Competition
Leadership
Founder & Leader
Tinh Vi Club
HUFLIT Academic IT Research Group
- •Founded and grew the community to ~40 members.
- •Collaborated with companies and external research groups to deploy AI applications.
Skills
Programming
AI & Machine Learning
Edge Optimization & Hardware
Libraries & Tools