Hi, I'm Hy Nguyen.
Computer Science Student with experience across research and industry.
Researching at The University of Adelaide.
About
My work spans research and industry, from robotics and computer vision to evolutionary optimization and LLM-integrated full-stack systems.
I’m motivated by environments that demand more over time, where I actively seek out harder problems, hold myself to higher standards, and invest the effort needed to grow into them.
Technical Experience
- •Benchmarked local search heuristics (LNS, VNS, LKH-3) for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW) instances enforcing strict computational budgets to ensure algorithmic fairness.
- •Implemented a sequential strategy to transfer solution states between tasks, statistically validating efficiency gains over isolated execution.
- •Optimizing an Evolutionary Algorithm to outperform these local search benchmarks, targeting superior solution quality and success ratios in highly constrained search spaces.
- •Contributed to fine-tuning Vision-and-Language foundation models by refining the synthetic data generation pipeline in NVIDIA Isaac Sim.
- •Enhanced existing trajectory algorithms to eliminate path instability, producing 500 high-fidelity video sequences used as ground-truth training data.
- •Engineered a full-stack LLM-powered analytics platform for NRC Health, enabling enterprise users to extract custom data insights through natural language queries.
- •Implemented production-ready data-to-text pipelines and prompt engineering strategies, automating report generation to significantly streamline workflows for non-technical stakeholders.
Education
The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Computer Science (Advanced)
GPA: 6.25/7.0
Feb 2024 – Present
Projects
- •Engineered a full-stack spaced repetition platform, implementing a modified FSRS algorithm to mathematically optimize review intervals based on memory stability metrics.
- •Designed a confidence-based grading system that drives a custom decay formula, dynamically calibrating target retention probabilities to maximize study efficiency.
CS
- •Architected a production-ready web application, implementing a modular MVC architecture to decouple business logic, API routes, and data access layers.
- •Designed a scalable relational database schema (MySQL) and a custom Repository Pattern abstraction layer, optimizing complex join queries for real-time aggregation.