Résumé
Sang Truong
Senior AI Engineer · Applied AI Systems
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · GitHub @sangtrx
Professional summary
Senior AI engineer and technical lead with 8+ years of professional AI/software engineering experience spanning LLM/RAG/agent systems, computer vision and video intelligence, multimodal learning, quantitative ML, time-series forecasting, speech AI, edge inference, and production AI engineering. I own systems end to end from research and data acquisition through model/tool design, APIs, distributed workloads, GPU/edge optimization, product surfaces, deployment, observability, reliability, and stakeholder delivery. Master of Science in Computer Engineering with a 4.0/4.0 GPA and peer-reviewed work across IJCV, AAAI, IEEE JBHI, Poultry Science, IEEE Access, ICIP, BMVC, and IEEE BHI.
Domain depth
Applied AI · Agents · Voice · RAG
Production AI where knowledge, tools, state, safety, evaluation, and user workflows matter as much as the model call.
- Clinical decision support with governed knowledge, citations, deterministic application authority, and explicit human/production boundaries
- Enterprise conversational AI with retrieval, tool/model routing, memory controls, guardrails, and distributed workloads
- Multilingual speech and real-time interaction across API, worker, and browser-facing paths
Python · FastAPI · LangGraph/LangChain · Azure OpenAI · Qdrant/Milvus/pgvector · PostgreSQL · Playwright · Celery/RabbitMQ/Redis
Computer Vision · Video · Edge AI
Physical-world AI spanning camera/media input, perception, tracking, temporal state, evidence, target-device inference, and recovery.
- Production multi-camera video intelligence across heterogeneous real-world sources and operational failure modes
- Industrial and academic vision workflows for inspection, recognition, tracking, and workstation state
- Edge optimization with TensorRT/CUDA/Jetson plus RGB-D and embedded perception work
PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · YOLO · ALPR · Tracking · TensorRT · CUDA · ONNX Runtime · Jetson · RTSP/HLS · FFmpeg
Quantitative Research · Trading Systems
Research and runtime engineering built around point-in-time evidence, causal computation, disciplined evaluation, durable state, and guarded execution boundaries.
- Curren: point-in-time research pipeline and shared research/runtime semantics without exposing strategy internals
- Leakage-aware evaluation, reproducible data artifacts, selection controls, lifecycle/risk state, and reconciliation
- Earlier equity, crypto, and FX research with ML ensembles, market data, cloud execution, and experiment tracking
Rust · Python · Arrow/Parquet · Polars · DuckDB · LightGBM · CatBoost · XGBoost · Scikit-learn · SciPy · Statsmodels · Optuna · NautilusTrader
Research · Multimodal & Temporal ML
Peer-reviewed research across temporal video understanding, vision-language learning, medical time-series representation learning, and industrial computer vision.
- Temporal action proposal generation and interaction modeling for long untrimmed video
- Vision-language learning and coherent video paragraph captioning, including an AAAI 2023 Oral
- Medical time-series representation learning and industrial visual inspection research
Transformers · Contrastive Learning · PyTorch · TensorFlow · Detectron2 · MATLAB · NumPy · SciPy · Scikit-learn · Weights & Biases
Professional & research experience
Head of Artificial Intelligence · EPIC TECHNOLOGY
Leading hands-on architecture and delivery across clinical AI, education AI, computer vision/video intelligence, and AI platform engineering.
- Own system boundaries, architecture, implementation, deployment, evaluation, observability, recovery, and stakeholder acceptance across applied AI programs.
- Built clinician-facing clinical AI with governed knowledge and explicit fact/safety boundaries.
- Built education AI and production multi-camera vision systems under real infrastructure, hardware, and operational constraints.
AI Tech Lead · Part-time / Consulting · A9 IOT
Leading environmental IoT forecasting workflows from preprocessing and evaluation through inference, visualization, and stakeholder reporting.
- Worked across LSTM, XGBoost, ARIMA, Prophet, continuous sensor processing, model evaluation, and reporting.
AI Engineer · FPT Software
Contributed to two FPT project families: enterprise conversational AI (primarily prompts, graph-node logic and tools) and speech-enabled interview/transcription services in team-built applications.
- Designed and implemented AI prompts, graph-node logic and tooling within a team-built Azure OpenAI, LangGraph/LangChain and retrieval/guardrail environment.
- Worked on multilingual transcription and interview/evaluation workflows connected to speech-enabled clients, Python async conversation jobs and application backends.
Graduate Researcher / PhD Student Researcher & Teaching Assistant · University of Arkansas
Graduate research in multimodal video understanding, vision-language learning, medical time-series learning, industrial computer vision, and edge inference; completed an MS in Computer Engineering.
- Co-developed peer-reviewed temporal action and video-language methods including ABN, AEI, AOE-Net, VLCAP, and VLTinT.
- Worked on medical time-series representation learning and poultry/industrial vision, including CarcassFormer.
- Optimized target-hardware inference using NVIDIA Jetson, TensorRT, CUDA, and FP16 techniques.
Selected independent side project
Curren · Independent AI/Quant Side Project · Solo Builder
A solo-built quantitative research and systems platform connecting point-in-time evidence, reproducible evaluation, shared research/runtime semantics, guarded operational state, and a sanitized public verification surface — without publishing strategy internals.
Research + platform engineering · no profitability claim
Selected flagship systems under EPIC TECHNOLOGY
Hospital Clinical AI & Decision Support
EPIC TECHNOLOGY · AI Architect / Lead Builder
Clinician-facing lookup, interaction analysis, prescription review, and knowledge Q&A with governed evidence, citations, durable state, and explicit clinical authority boundaries.
Production Multi-Camera Video Intelligence
EPIC TECHNOLOGY · AI / Computer Vision Systems Lead
Physical-world video AI spanning heterogeneous media sources, perception and tracking, temporal events, evidence, monitoring, and recovery under constrained hardware and vendor interfaces.
AI-Powered Open edX Platform
EPIC TECHNOLOGY · AI Architect / Lead Builder
Teacher-reviewable content generation and AI tutoring with retrieval, Vietnamese speech, real-time interaction, platform integration, browser verification, and operational delivery.
Additional industry experience
Quantitative Researcher / Data Scientist · Confidential Fund · NDA Project
- Developed equity-prediction research with feature engineering, gradient-boosting ensembles, sentiment-derived signals, market-data evaluation/backtesting, constrained AWS execution, and MLflow tracking.
AI Engineer / Data Scientist · Contract · Crypto Communities Chatbot Development
- Designed LLM/RAG community assistants with LangChain and Pinecone for grounded support automation.
Quantitative Researcher / Data Scientist · Bluebelt Group
- Built Python/FastAPI infrastructure for cryptocurrency and FX trading signals and quantitative/ML experimentation.
AI Engineer · Computer Vision / Embedded AI · 5D Agriculture Solutions JSC
- Built computer-vision systems for autonomous braking, face recognition, and contactless livestock measurement with RGB-D sensing and embedded devices.
Research trajectory
Temporal action understanding
ABN → AEI → AOE-Net: action-boundary and interaction modeling for long untrimmed video, culminating in IJCV.
Vision-language video understanding
VLCAP → VLTinT: contrastive and Transformer-based modeling for coherent video paragraph captioning; VLTinT was selected as an AAAI 2023 Oral.
Medical & industrial ML
Medical time-series representation learning plus industrial/poultry vision and target-hardware edge optimization.
Teaching experience
Teaching Assistant · University of Arkansas
Assisted with Algorithms course slides, homework assignments, and exams.
Teaching Assistant · Master's Computer Vision course · HCMC University of Technology and Education
Prepared course material and instructed graduate Computer Vision practice sessions.
Teaching Assistant · International University — VNU HCMC
Taught undergraduate labs/tutorials in Sensors and Instrumentation, Robotics, and Biosignal Processing.
Technical skills
Applied AI / LLM / agents
LLM/RAG/agents · LangGraph/LangChain · tool/model routing · memory/context · grounded generation · guardrails · human-review boundaries · evaluation
Retrieval & knowledge systems
Qdrant · Milvus · Pinecone · pgvector · PostgreSQL · embeddings · governed ingestion · metadata filtering · citations · provenance
Voice / real-time AI
Azure Speech · multilingual ASR · Vietnamese ASR/TTS · speech evaluation · WebSockets/SSE · AsyncIO · background processing
Computer vision / video / edge
PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · YOLO · Detectron2 · ALPR · tracking · TensorRT · ONNX Runtime · CUDA · Jetson · RGB-D · RTSP/HLS · FFmpeg
Quantitative ML & research data
Rust · Python · point-in-time data · Arrow/Parquet · Polars · DuckDB · LightGBM · CatBoost · XGBoost · Scikit-learn · SciPy · Statsmodels · Optuna · NautilusTrader
Backend & distributed systems
Python · FastAPI · REST/SSE · WebSockets · Celery · RabbitMQ · Redis · PostgreSQL · SQLite · MongoDB · MinIO/S3 · retries · idempotency · durable state
Product, cloud & delivery
Next.js · React · TypeScript/JavaScript · Open edX · Playwright · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · systemd · Nginx · AWS · Azure
Languages
English — professional working proficiency · Vietnamese — native
Education
Master of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCmpE) · University of Arkansas
GPA 4.0/4.0 · thesis: “Towards Multi-modal Interpretable Video Understanding” · advisor: Prof. Ngan Le.
Bachelor of Engineering in Automation and Control Engineering · International University — VNU HCMC
GPA 3.50/4.00 · Very Good · Top 1% · half-tuition scholarship recipient.
Prior Ph.D.-track research is represented in the University of Arkansas research role above; no completed Ph.D. is claimed.
Selected scholarships & early honors
Rodger S. Kline Chair in Computer Science and Computer Engineering Scholarship
University of Arkansas
Reginald R. “Barney” and Jameson A. Baxter Endowed Graduate Scholarship
University of Arkansas
Fully Funded Ph.D. Admission
University of Arkansas
First Prize · Ba Ria–Vung Tau Informatics Competition
Ba Ria–Vung Tau, Vietnam
First Prize · Ba Ria–Vung Tau Informatics Competition
Ba Ria–Vung Tau, Vietnam
Gold Medal · Vietnam Southern Region Olympic 30/4 — Informatics
Vietnam
Selected publications
CarcassFormer · Poultry Science
Simultaneous localization, segmentation, and classification of poultry carcass defects
AOE-Net · International Journal of Computer Vision
Entity-interaction modeling with adaptive attention for temporal action proposal generation
VLTinT · AAAI
Visual-linguistic Transformer-in-Transformer for coherent video paragraph captioning · AAAI Oral
sCL-ST · IEEE JBHI
Supervised contrastive learning with semantic transformations for multi-lead ECG arrhythmia classification
VLCAP · IEEE ICIP
Vision-language contrastive learning for coherent video paragraph captioning
AEI · BMVC
Actor-environment interaction with adaptive attention for temporal action proposal generation
ABN · IEEE Access
Agent-aware boundary networks for temporal action proposal generation
Multi-module RCNN + Transformer · IEEE BHI
Multi-module recurrent convolutional neural network with Transformer encoder for ECG arrhythmia classification
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