I’m My (pronounced as “me”), she/her, Vietnamese. I also go by Chiffon. I am a senior undergrad at Minerva University (USA) studying AI & Statistics, while living and engaging civically in 6 cities 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇹🇼🇮🇳🇦🇷🇩🇪 as a part of Minerva global rotation, with my peers from 80+ countries and regions.
I am broadly interested in making knowledge more accessible, accurate, current, and interactive with AI, through natural language processing and human-computer interaction and facilitating knowledge creation through openness and transparency like open science and open-source. I am focusing on
- low-resource, multilingual, and multicultural adaptation,
- knowledge management across modalities: acquisition, utilization, reasoning, unlearning, and editing
- human-agent collaboration and personalization for education.
- other directions that help my vision of making knowledge work more effective and worthwhile
I started research journey in Jun 2024, working on 3D LiDAR-based object detection. I’m working fine-tuning LLMs for vocabulary learning (bachelor thesis). I also participate in ethical and open research efforts, such as contributing 3 questions on Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark and SEACrowd’s vision-language annotation for Southeast Asian languages.
Digital garden
I love teaching and organizing educational activities and continual learning, which greatly inform my research interests and problems I want to contribute to in my life. This website is my public digital garden on the Internet, where I cultivated and documented my various interests over time. Currently, most notes are taken directly as I take Computer Science & Math courses and work on philosophical and personal thoughts.
Equally important, I strive to be a more empathetic human in the interconnected world, by reading to be more informed, conversing problems, and participating in community services. In my free time, I like cooking, organizing potluck dinners and board game nights with friends, and consuming media in foreign languages (Chinese web novels, Korean manhwa, French music).
Connect with me
Email me at chiffonng136 at gmail dot com for potential collaboration and opportunities.