Hi, I am Cuong Pham (my full name in Vietnamese is Phạm Anh Cường). I am a MS student in Machine Learning at MBZUAI, supervised by Prof. Samuel Horváth. My research interest lies on Optimization in different settings, for more detail, I am working mainly on Effective Training/Fine-tuning in Continual Learning & Federated Learning, and partially on SGD Optimization.
Before joining MBZUAI, I got my Honors BS in IT from VNU-UET, Vietnam in 2023, where I was supervised by Prof. Quang-Thuy Ha and working closely with Dr. Van-Quang Nguyen on NLP and CV projects. I also have 2 years of experience in AI (with Vision and Data Science tasks). Please see my CV for more information.
For contact: My personal email is phamanhcuongvna2511 at gmail.com, and my current student email is cuong.pham at mbzuai.ac.ae.
🔥 News
- 08.2024: I join MBZUAI as a Master’s student in Machine Learning (with full scholarship), and my supervisor for my MS is Prof. Samuel Horváth.
- 06.2023: I graduated with High Distinction degree in Information Technology (Honors Program) from VNU University of Engineering and Technology.
📝 Publications
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[P.4] Polyak Stepsize: Estimating Optimal Functional Values Without Parameters or Prior Knowledge.
Farshed Abdukhakimov, Cuong Anh Pham, Samuel Horváth, Martin Takáč, Slavomír Hanzely.
(‘25, under review) -
[P.3] SmallPlan: Leverage Small Language Models for Sequential Path Planning with Simulation-Powered, LLM-Guided Distillation
Quang P.M. Pham, Khoi T. N. Nguyen, Nhi H. Doan, Cuong A. Pham, Qinbo Sun, Weimin Qi, Kentaro Inui, Dezhen Song
(preprint ‘25, under review) -
[P.2] KTVIC: A Vietnamese Image Captioning Dataset on the Life Domain
Anh-Cuong Pham, Van-Quang Nguyen, Thi-Hong Vuong, Quang-Thuy Ha
(preprint ‘24, short version of Bachelor’s thesis) -
[C.1] Memory-Based Method using Prototype Augmentation for Continual Relation Extraction
Quynh-Trang Pham Thi, Anh-Cuong Pham, Ngoc-Huyen Ngo and Duc-Trong Le
(IEEE RIVF ‘22)
🎖 Honors
- 06.2024, Fully-funded Master’s scholarship at MBZUAI.
- 2021-2023, Third Prizes (#5 Linear Algebra 2021, #6 Linear Algebra 2022, #5 Linear Algebra 2023) in VNU-UET Mathematics Olympiad. I was also #7 Calculus in the 2022 competition, but there were only prizes for top 6.
- 01.2019, Participation in the Vietnam Mathematical Olympiad 2019 (representing Nghe An province).
📖 Education
- 08.2024 - 2026 (expected), MSc in Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE).
- 08.2019 - 06.2023, BSc in Information Technology (Honors Program), VNU University of Engineering and Technology (Vietnam).
💻 Professional Experience
- 10.2024 - current, Graduate Research Assistant at MBZUAI, UAE.
- 10.2023 - 07.2024, Data Scientist at Viettel Networks Corportation - Viettel Group, Vietnam.
- 09.2021 - 09.2024, Student Research Intern at DSKT Laboratory of VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam.
- 05.2022 - 08.2023, R&D Engineer at GHTK JSC, Vietnam.
🔍 References
- Dr. Samuel Horvath, Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at MBZUAI (UAE) [Email] [Website]
- Dr. Van-Quang Nguyen, Researcher at RIKEN AIP & Tohoku University (Japan) [Email] [Google Scholar]
- Dr. Quang-Thuy Ha, Associate Professor and Former Vice President at VNU-UET (Vietnam) [Email] [Website]