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Hieu N

- Research Program Mentor

PhD candidate at University of Connecticut

Expertise

Machine Learning in Finance and Computer Vision, Sentimental Analysis, NLP, Data Science

Bio

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut. I am doing research related to Machine Learning in Finance. In the past, I have worked with computer vision projects ranging from object detection, recognition to image/video super-resolution; in the past few years, I also worked on NLP-related projects. Before becoming a computer science student, I majored in mathematics and worked on signal processing and steganography projects. As of 2021, I am also a Data Scientist for an Insurance and Financial company focusing on generative AI products. Former student's projects: -A Computer Vision-Based System to Make Street Crossings Safer for the Visually Impaired: Completed and Participated in National Competition. Paper published. -Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection: A Case Study in a Santa Clara Suburban Neighborhood: Completed and published. -Using Supervised Machine Learning to Predict House Price: Completed and published. -Queerphobia Detection: Completed and published. -Suicidal Detection: Completed and published. -Housing Prediction - Chicago Case Study: Completed and published -Survey of Computer Vision: Completed -Predicting Diabetes: Completed -License Plate Detection: Completed -Object Detection Deployment: Completed -Depression Detection: Completed

Project ideas

Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.

Machine Learning in Finance: Forecasting Market Trend

In this project, you will learn fundamental machine learning methods ranging from Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines, to Recurrent Neural Networks to model and forecast financial data. The outcomes of this project are: -Brief literature review on stock forecasting -Fetch and preprocess financial data -Model and fine-tune hyperparameter -Interpret models and results. -Create GitHub repo to summarize your project -Write up research paper

Machine Learning in Computer Vision: Object recognition, Detection and Image super-resolution

In this project, you will survey and learn about the current state-of-the-art machine learning methods in Computer Vision. The outcomes of the project: -Collect and preprocess the customized dataset. -Train customized dataset with the current state-of-the-art methods. -Finetune and modify model to push the results performance. -Create Github Repo to summarize the project. -Write up a research paper.

Analyzing Social Media using NLP

In this project, you will learn how to collect or analyze public social media data, and use NLP method to classify the behaviors and understand the topic in-depth.

Coding skills

Python, MATLAB, R

Languages I know

Vietnamese

Teaching experience

In the past, I was a math tutor where I taught subjects ranging from Algebra, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Statistics, Differential Equations. I also mentored students to conduct Computer Science research projects and join competitions where some of them won international awards.

Credentials

Work experience

University of Connecticut (2019 - Current)
Research Assistant
Michigan State University (2018 - 2019)
Research and Teaching Assistant
Western Connecticut State University (2014 - 2018)
Tutor/Research Assistant
The Hartford (2021 - Current)
Generative AI Data Scientist

Education

Western Connecticut State University
BA Bachelor of Arts (2017)
Mathematics
Western Connecticut State University
MA Master of Arts (2018)
Mathematics
University of Connecticut
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Computer Science

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