Scholar
Dat Quoc Nguyen
Google Scholar ID: HVl7vyEAAAAJ
Qualcomm AI Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,155
H-index
33
i10-index
57
Publications
20
Co-authors
44
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Author of 70+ peer-reviewed publications with 6000+ citations and h-index of 35 (Google Scholar).
- VinAI Outstanding Employee Award (2024); VinAI 5-Year Best Paper Award (2024).
- VinAI Best Employee Award (2023); VinAI Excellent Employee Award (2020).
- ALTA 2019 Best Paper Award (2019).
- National ICT Australia's Research Project Award (02/2015–05/2017).
- International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship and Australian Government's International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (06/2014–05/2017).
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award and First Prize at Undergraduate Research Conference, VNU-UET (2009).
- Released key resources including PLANTA (CoNLL 2025), WhoQA (EMNLP 2024), RecGPT (ACL 2024), JPIS (ICASSP 2024), MISCA (EMNLP 2023), XPhoneBERT (INTERSPEECH 2023), WGE (ESWC 2023), JMAC (EMNLP 2022), NoGE (WSDM 2022).
Research Experience
- Principal Researcher, Qualcomm AI Research, Vietnam (04/2025–present).
- Head of NLP Department, VinAI Research, Vietnam (08/2021–03/2025).
- Senior Research Scientist, VinAI Research, Vietnam (12/2019–03/2025).
- Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (12/2019–11/2021).
- Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (12/2017–11/2019).
- Researcher & Teaching Assistant, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam (07/2009–05/2014).
- Research Intern, CNGL/NCLT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland (08/2012–11/2012).
- Research Intern, UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (11/2011–05/2012).
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Macquarie University, Australia (06/2014–05/2017).
- Principal supervisor: Mark Johnson; Associate supervisor: Mark Dras.
- Thesis: 'Modeling Topics and Knowledge Bases with Vector Representations'.
- Thesis submitted on 30/05/2017, qualified on 20/09/2017, conferred on 17/04/2018.
- B.Sc. (Hons), VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam (09/2005–06/2009).
Background
- Principal Researcher at Qualcomm AI Research, Vietnam.
- Formerly Head of NLP and Senior Research Scientist at VinAI Research, Vietnam.
- Previously Honorary Fellow and Research Fellow at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Research interests include core NLP problems, ML methods for NLP, and their applications for low-resource languages and specific domains.
- Released numerous widely-used ML/NLP toolkits and datasets in academia and industry.
- Created large language models and foundation models including PhoGPT, RecGPT, PhoBERT, BARTpho, XPhoneBERT, and BERTweet, with millions of downloads.
