Nguyễn Ngọc Hiếu

Data Scientist and Data Analysis Trainer

"Turning data into clarity."

Portrait of Nguyễn Ngọc Hiếu

About

I have hands-on experience in Data Science, including data analysis, data processing, visualization, and predictive modeling using Excel, Power BI, SQL, and Python.

I also have experience teaching data analysis to businesses and helping people apply data-driven thinking in real-world situations.

Education

  1. Jul. 2023 — Sep. 2027 (Expected)

    Bachelor of Data Science

    University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH)

    Relevant coursework: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Algorithms, Probability & Statistics, Linear Algebra, and Database Systems.

Experience

  1. Aug. 2026 — Present

    Research Assistant

    ICT Lab USTH

    • Worked on research related to intelligent agents and AI-driven systems.
    • Supported data collection, processing, analysis, and prototype development for research projects.

Featured Projects

Pretrained Vision Models Across Image Domains illustration

Pretrained Vision Models Across Image Domains

Compared ImageNet-pretrained ResNet18 and ResNet50 using linear probing and partial fine-tuning on Office-Home. Evaluated transfer from real-world photos to Product, Art, and Clipart domains; ResNet50 reached 82.64% accuracy on Real-World and 40.87% on Clipart.

PyTorch · ResNet · Transfer Learning · Domain Shift

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BLIP Image Captioning

Fine-tuned the BLIP image captioning model on Flickr8k while keeping the visual encoder frozen. On 1,000 test images, BLEU-4 increased from 0.2741 to 0.3387 and CIDEr from 0.7066 to 1.0064.

PyTorch · BLIP · Vision-Language Models · Flickr8k

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CarValue AI — Used Car Price Prediction illustration

CarValue AI — Used Car Price Prediction

Built a used-car asking-price prediction pipeline with group-aware evaluation and a Streamlit demo. The selected Random Forest achieved MAE of 68.26M VND and R² of 0.9751 on 4,595 held-out listings.

Python · Scikit-learn · Random Forest · Streamlit

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USTH Chatbot project preview

USTH Chatbot

Built a local RAG academic assistant for USTH students using university PDFs, multilingual embeddings, and vector retrieval to enable document-grounded question answering.

RAG · LangChain · ChromaDB · Python

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Amazon electronics customer feedback analytics project preview

Amazon Electronics Review Analytics

Built ML and NLP pipelines for sentiment analysis and recommendation using customer review data, with interactive analytics and dashboard-based summarization.

Python · NLP · XGBoost · React

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HR performance analysis project preview

HR Performance Analysis

Cleaned and analyzed employee performance data across departments and branches to uncover retention, compensation, and satisfaction trends for HR decision support.

Excel · Power BI · SQL · Analytics

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EcoSense AI biodiversity monitoring project preview

EcoSense AI

Developed an intelligent biodiversity monitoring system for environmental threat detection using acoustic data, Edge AI models, and a real-time dashboard.

AI · FastAPI · Edge AI · Acoustic Analysis

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R2AI LegalQA project preview

R2AI LegalQA

Built a Vietnamese legal question-answering system using retrieval-augmented generation over a legal corpus, dense retrieval, reranking, and answer synthesis to support legal document lookup and evidence-based responses.

Jul. 2026 — Aug. 2026 · RAG · Legal QA · BGE · Python

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Awards & Recognition

  1. Aug. 2026

    Third Prize, Data Science Talent Competition

    Vietnam Quant Challenge 2026

  2. Dec. 2025

    Consolation Prize, R&D to Startup Competition

    Vietnam National University

  3. Dec. 2025

    Third Prize, Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge (Northern Region) - Coach

    Foreign Trade University

  4. Dec. 2025

    Top 6, Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge (National Final) - Coach

    Foreign Trade University

  5. Nov. 2025

    Top 10, Social Innovation Launch

    Youth+

  6. Jun. 2025

    Certificate of Achievement for Positive Contributions

    VAST Youth Union

  7. May 2025

    Second Prize, Summer Data BootCamp 2025

    FTU Youth Union

  8. Apr. 2025

    Champion, USTH Code Championship

    USTH Youth Union

  9. Apr. 2025

    Top 10, Message 4 Digen 2025

    VNU Youth Union

  10. Dec. 2024

    Consolation Prize, Vietnamese National Student Informatics Olympiad

    Specialized Informatics Division

  11. Dec. 2024

    Honorable mention, ICPC Asia Hanoi Regional Contest

    ICPC Global

  12. Aug. 2023

    Third Prize, Mathematical Modeling Competition

Leadership & Activities

  1. Sep. 2025 — Present

    Class Monitor

    Data Science Major, USTH

    • Represented Data Science students, coordinated academic activities, and supported communication between students and faculty.
  2. Nov. 2023 — Dec. 2025

    Member of Math ICT Department

    USTH Learning Support Club

    • Developed a grading and online learning platform used by over 1500 students.
    • Organized tutorials and supported first-year students in programming, mathematics, and technical subjects.
  3. Dec. 2023 — Jan. 2026

    Member of R&D Department

    USTH Coder Club

    • Mentored students in Basic Programming and Data Structures & Algorithms classes, supporting technical training and problem-solving practice.

Contact

Reach out through any of the channels below, or download my CV for more details.