NGUYEN VIET BANG - User Web Pages - Monash University

NGUYEN VIET BANGCitizenship: Vietnamese Phone: 93273347Residency Status: Singapore PREmail: bang.viet.nguyen@gmail.comHIGHLIGHTS• Excellent in problem solving and software development and a fast-paced learner• Innovative with track records of research & development innovations• Experienced in analyzing business’s requirements and translating into solutions for industry problemsEDUCATIONMonash UniversityPhD Candidate – 2009-presentNational University of Singapore 2003-2007• Bachelor of Computing with Honors, May 2007 (Second Upper Class Honors)High school for the Gifted, Vietnam National University 2000-2003• 2000-2003 (major in computer science, with distinction)AWARDS• Dean’s List Recipient, NUS School of Computing 2004• Represent NUS in ACM Programming Contest, Asia Region, Shanghai (Team of 3) 2004• Champion, NUS Computron Quiz (Nation-wide, Tertiary category), 2004• Second Prize (won twice) Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics 2002 and 2003• Gold medal (Top winner) and several prizes, Ho Chi Minh City Olympiad in InformaticsWORK EXPERIENCESResearch Engineer, National University of Singapore 3/2009- 6/2009• Main programmer and research on Tools for conversion of Supply Chain Modeling Language (XMLbased)– Excel dataIntegration and Localization Engineer, Electronics Arts Asia Pacific (Singapore) 6/2008-3/2009• Main engineers for integration and localization of FIFA 2009 Asian SKUs (PS3 and X360) and SkateIt(Wii). Shipped and passed third-party submission within tight schedule during resource crunch period• Built the games using various build pipeline tools, wrote localization codes and debugging complexprograms. Nominated for Engineer Award during company’s annual meetingResearch Engineer and Programmer, Singapore Management University 6/2007-6/2008• Architected and designed a generic framework for distributed auction mechanism using agents. Utilizingthe auction concept to solve resource-allocation in a market-based approach for logistics companies, usingreal data (from PSA Corp) and fine-tuning solution to fit industry problems.• Successfully developed a distributed JAVA / JADE application and multiple scheduling subproblems.Worked very efficiently to improve the algorithm performance and identify bugs in short timeperiods. Researched into pricing issues involving resource allocation and proposed improvements.Honors Year Tutor, National University of Singapore 7/2006-11/2006• Supervised about 15 students and conducted lab sessions for a course on Data Structure and AlgorithmsSystem Administrator, WING group, NUS School of Computing 5/2005-8/2006• Maintain & install software in a Linux cluster and managed a web portal. Software suites managedinclude Joomla, Mailman, LDAP, research software. Provided system and network troubleshooting.

ACCOMPLISHED PROJECTSFunctional Web Query Analysis, Honors Year Project 2005-2006• Mined query logs, analyzed web search users’ behaviors to improve search engines. Implemented aGoogle API-based program in Java to automatically classify queries. Results are published and presented(as main author) in the International World Wide Web Conference, Banff, Canada, 2007.Online Google Map Route Planning for Web 2.0 using Ruby on Rails 2007• Web application developed for the CodeXtremeApps Contest, a full MVC-model product for socialnetwork and media Mash-up like GoogleMap, with web 2.0 innovative features such as AJAX interfacesStock Pattern Analysis Program, NUS Software Engineering Team Project 2005• Designed and implemented complete software for analyzing stock patterns which has extendableprogramming-language definition and XML processing capability. The project consists of 6 members,adopting the SDLC methodology. Done using C# and .NET frameworkEnterprise System Development Project, CS2262 Individual Project 2005• Designed, developed and deployed an online module management system using J2EE on … serverOnline Shopping System, Database Course Team Project using PHP and MYSQL 2004• Designed and developed an online shopping webpage and the related database schemaSKILLS• Software/ Web Engineering:o Programming Languages: C/C++/C#, Java, .NET framework, J2EE, Unix shell scripto Web: CGI/Perl, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, HTML, AJAX, basic Photoshop• Systemso Experienced in different Linux distros. Working knowledge in LDAP, Web Server, ContentManagement System (Joomla)PUBLICATIONS1) H. C. Lau and Bang Viet Nguyen, Solving Generalized Open Constraint Optimization Problem usingTwo-Level Multi-Agent Framework – Improved Results. European Conference on AI 2006 Workshopon Distributed CSP, Verona, Italy. August 2006.2) Bang Viet Nguyen and Min-Yen Kan, Functional Faceted Web Query Classification. Proceedings ofQuery Log Analysis Workshop, International WWW’2007, Banff, Canada.SELECTED CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES• Computron Quiz Organizing Committee 2005In charge of setting up questions and successfully prepared the materials for the contest.• School of Computing Academic Liaison Committee 2005Organized events catered for Computing students such as Book Flea Market, Career Workshops.• School of Computing Rag & Flag Committee, Senior member 2004Set up plans, prepared logistics and built the float for NUS Rag.• Summit of Fansipan, highest peak of Vietnam 12/2006REFERENCES• Associate Professor Lau Hoong Chuin,School of Information Systems, Singapore Management UniversityEmail: hclau@smu.edu.sg Website: www.mysmu.edu/faculty/hclau/• Assistant Professor Min-Yen KanDept. of Computer Science, National University of SingaporeEmail: kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg Website: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy