Hi, I am Cuong Pham (my full name in Vietnamese is Phạm Anh Cường). I am a MS student in Machine Learning at MBZUAI, currently working on Optimization for Machine Learning and Federated Learning, supervised by Prof. Samuel Horváth. My research interest lies on Optimization in different settings.
Before joining MBZUAI, I got my Honors BS in IT from VNU-UET, Vietnam in 2023, where I was supervised by Assoc. 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.
- 01.2024: Upload my first-author short paper about Image Captioning for Vietnamese context based on my bachelor’s thesis to Arxiv (link).
- 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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[P3] Polyak Stepsize: Estimating Optimal Functional Values Without Parameters or Prior Knowledge.
Slavomir Hanzely, Farshed Abdukhakimov, Cuong Anh Pham, Samuel Horváth, Martin Takáč.
(‘25, under review) -
[P2] 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, Kentaro Inui, Dezhen Song
(preprint ‘25, under review) -
[P1] 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) -
[C1] 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.
📖 Educations
- 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
- 10.2023 - 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.