Xin chào! I am Khoi, a doctoral student in the Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, supervised by Professor Vincent Ng. I work on vision-language reasoning and argumentation. My work has been published in ACL, EMNLP, and more. My long term goal is to harness AI for Vietnam and for humanity.

Beside research, I enjoy building real-world systems, usually with machine learning. Some of the products I am proud of are:

• agentflow, a Python framework for scientific experimentation with static agent network,
• the version control feature of dbdiagram.io, a tool at Holistics with 200K monthly active users,
• and OneSchedule – a course planning website used by many students at my undergrad university.

In my freetime, I enjoy running, meditating, and blogging.

News

• [May 2026] I will be interning at the Youtube Languages Technologies team at Google (Mountain View, CA) this summer.
• [August 2025] Paper MemeInterpret: Towards an All-in-One Dataset for Meme Understanding published at EMNLP Findings 2025 (Suzhou, China)

Maybe-fun facts

• I was a competitive programmer at national and regional level (CodeForces profile, press).
• I graduated in the inaugural cohort of a brand new university called Fulbright University Vietnam. That was the best four years of my life.