CEO

Dr. Hung H. Bui

Representation Learning, Deep Generative Models, Unsupervised Learning, Dialogue Systems. Former Google DeepMind, Adobe Research, SRI AI Center. IMO Silver Medalist.

Dr. Hung H. Bui

Representation Learning, Deep Generative Models, Unsupervised Learning, Dialogue Systems. Former Google DeepMind, Adobe Research, SRI AI Center. IMO Silver Medalist.

Prior to joining VinAI, he held critical positions at Google DeepMind, Adobe Research, and Nuance Natural Language Understanding Lab. He also spent almost a decade at the AI Center, SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), where he led the multi-institution research team in developing probabilistic inference technologies for understanding user activities during the CALO project. It was the largest AI project at the time and led to Apple's Siri.

His technical expertise and interests range from probabilistic graphical models, deep generative models, Bayesian inference to machine- learning especially models for sequential and relational data with applications in human activity/intent recognition, video understanding, and natural language processing. Such interests revolve around one question: How to make machines understand humans better?

Going further back in time, he was an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Australia (2000-2003), where he also attained his PhD in Computer Science (1998).

Deputy CEO

Mrs. Annie Lien

20 cumulative years experience in Mobility, Autonomous Driving R&D with a diverse background in Business, Product, Technical Strategy, Marketing/PR, Governmental Affairs, Customer Focus, User Experience/Human Factors.

Mrs. Annie Lien

20 cumulative years experience in Mobility, Autonomous Driving R&D with a diverse background in Business, Product, Technical Strategy, Marketing/PR, Governmental Affairs, Customer Focus, User Experience/Human Factors.

Annie started her career in UX and Machine Learning at Robert Bosch's Silicon Valley research center. During this time at Bosch Annie also moonlighted on the weekends as Team Leader of Team AnnieWay for DARPA Urban Challenge 2007, where AnnieWay was an “underdog” team with very little money, manpower, resources and time, and against all odds, successfully qualified as a Finalist for the DARPA race. Thereafter, at VW Group’s Silicon Valley innovation lab, Annie co-created and led companywide initiatives on USA Product, PR, Legal, and Governmental Affairs for Audi Autonomous Driving. After Audi/VW Annie spent 6+ years in the startup world of innovative solutions for self-driving cars and robotics automation; advised / consulted entrepreneurs, investors, auto OEMs, suppliers and other entities on autonomous driving; joined Toyota’s Silicon Valley lab; and briefly co-led Hexagon’s Autonomous Solutions group. Today, Annie is excited about her current journey as Deputy CEO at VinAI.

Leadership

Dinh Phung

Head of Data

Hoai Nguyen

Head of Smart Edge

Van-Anh Dam

Head of Operations

Ngoc Tran

Head of Finance

Meet some of the team

"I found my passion and inspiration because I have opportunity to work with talent teams to research and develop the new global grade products which help to improve the quality of human life. With VinAI I believe that Vietnam will soon become the new excellent center of AI technology and Automotive industry in the world."

Chan Vu

Smart Mobility

"Delivering world-class AI research from Vietnam poses many challenges, but unquestionably a meaningful and highimpact mission. The impact lies not only in solving unique AI problems in Vietnam, but also in inspiring the next generation of Vietnamese researchers and engineers. I am very excited to be a part of this journey with VinAI."

Dzung Nguyen

Smart Edge

“I believe in and work hard to develop a world-class AI product by Vietnamese. At VinAI, I’m collaborating with experts from top AI hubs in the world to realize my dream.”

Vuong Cap

Smart Mobility

“I am interested in the research and development of technology for problems that have high societal impact. VinAI gives me unique opportunities to pursue my passion”

Hoai Nguyen

Head of Smart Edge

"Rooted in its talents and passion, I see VinAI as a center of excellence where the best AI research and products will disrupt local regions and scale globally.”

Dinh Phung

Head of Data

“I like the dynamics that VinAI people and teams create. Things are moving very fast, and we get very good support to be productive as well as to enjoy our research journey.”

Binh-Son Hua

Research Scientist

"I can see great potential in VinAI and feel honored to be part of the team. As a Research Scientist, I want to continue exploring advanced computer vision techniques and at the same time inspire younger Vietnamese AI researchers."

Anh Tran

Research Scientist

"I enjoy the discussions with our residents--the brightest students in the country. I also enjoy the interactions with the talented engineers and scientists. These discussions and interactions have always led to many interesting directions and ideas for the problems I am working on."

Dat Nguyen

Research Scientist