Viet Lai
Scholar

Viet Lai

Google Scholar ID: TtxmNccAAAAJ
Adobe Research, S&P Global, University of Oregon
Vision Language Model
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,616
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
24
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Winner of the 2022 Adobe Research Award; Best Paper Runner-up Award (MRL@EMNLP 2022); Outstanding Demo Paper Award (EACL 2021). Published multiple papers across various fields including natural language processing and reinforcement learning.
Research Experience
  • Organizer of the AAAI Workshops on Scientific Document Understanding and Video Transcript Understanding; served as a program committee member for ACL Rolling Review, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, Neural Computing, and Transactions on Information Systems journals.
Education
  • Received a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon. Advised by Prof. Thien Huu Nguyen for his Ph.D. and Prof. Minh Le Nguyen for his Master's.
Background
  • Research interests include factuality, multilinguality, and vision-language alignment. Currently a researcher at Adobe Research, previously worked at Kensho Technologies (the AI Research Hub of S&P Global).
Miscellany
  • Recent News: October 2025 - Publicly released work on Zero-Variance Prompts for RLVR; September 2025 - One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025 and one paper accepted at FinNLP; May 2025 - One paper accepted at CVEU Workshop (CVPR) in image editing and two papers accepted at ACL in LLM number understanding and GUI Agents; April 2025 - One paper accepted at Reinforcement Learning Conference.