Background & Research

+ Bachelor – Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2004-2009)

à Thesis: FPGA-based MIPS CPU architecture

+ Master – Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2010-2012)

à Thesis: FPGA-based Network on Chip (NoC) architecture

+ PhD – Computer Science – Kent University (UK) (2017-2021)

à Research: Apply Machine Learning/ Deep Learning for analyzing sounds
+ Acoustic Scene Classification
+ Acoustic Event Detection and Localization
+ Sound Source Separation (Clear Human Speech and Noise)
+ Respiratory Disease Detection (analyze lung sound)

+ 4-year experience in Semiconductor Industry (Altera, Synopsys, Renesas) (2009 - 2013)

+ 4-year experience for Lecturer (HCM Uni) (2013-2017)

+ 1-year experience for Postdoc (Surrey Uni) (2020-2021)

+ Data Scientist – Austrian Institute of Technology (2021 – Now)

Deep Learning & 5 years ago
& Trending
Deep Learning – Specific tasks (5 years ago)
+ NLP
Data Scientist
+ Image
Deep Learning/Machine Learning Engineer
+ Audio
Deep Learning – Specific tasks (5 years ago)
+ NLP (topic detection, sentence similarity, …)

+ Image (object detection, segmentation, scene classification, …)

+ Audio (speech to text, speaker detection, audio event detection, audio scene
classification, ….)
Deep Learning – Technique Trending
+ NLP (Transformer, Attention … à LLM)

+ Image (Convolution, …)

+ Audio
Deep Learning – Technique Trending
+ NLP (Transformer, Attention … à LLM)

+ Image (Convolution, …)

+ Audio
Deep Learning – Trending
+ NLP

+ Image multimodal based applications

+ Audio
Deep Learning – Trending
+ NLP

+ Image multimodal based applications

+ Audio

Social media (facebook, etc): text, audio, video

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3

Conclusion ???
Deep Learning – Applications
+ NLP
multimodal based applications
+ Image à Leverage pre-trained models,
especially LLM
+ Audio

+ Using: Prompt & finetune

+ Large model vs. real time
+ GPU resources
Room ? Root?
+ Research Root:
Specific tasks (medical image, eeg/emg signals, remote
sensing image, sound source separation, etc.) à become expert
in specific domain (medical domain, etc.) à Industry job, then
update SOTA to apply on the domain

+ Engineer Root:
Update SOTA + Data engineering

+ Long time survival:

Techniques (ML/DL/analysis/…) + Knowledge Domain
(Audio/Image/Finance/Logistic/…)
Room ? Tech?
+ Quantum + Hardware (Devices) + Deep Learning + Python/C++
à EE + CS

+ Cloud + Deep Learning + Python + Data Engineering + Database

à CS