Vu Minh Nguyen.

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I’m Minh, a master’s student in Mathematics and Operations Research at Aalto University, with a background in software engineering and a growing interest in computational finance. I enjoy finding ways to bring software, automation, and AI into everyday life. Outside my studies and work, I spend time solving Sudoku, playing chess (sometimes), and playing badminton.

Based in FinlandAalto University

PROJECTS

A few things I've worked on.

Research, applied AI, and software.

Featured projects

Final projectMar 2026

CellSense — AI Assistant for Google Sheets

  • My Digital Systems and Design final project at Aalto University: a Google Sheets add-on that turns natural-language requests and selected cell ranges into spreadsheet formulas.
Google Sheets add-on
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ThesisSep 2025

Robust Fine-Grained Gesture Recognition via Continual Learning

  • My BSc thesis.
  • Implemented and benchmarked five continual learning methods on an existing radar gesture-recognition model.
  • Designed the benchmark to evaluate adaptation to new data and retention of previously learned gestures.
Research
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Client projectMay 2025

Computer Vision Analog Gauge Reader

  • My first client project.
  • Worked in a team of eight for seven months on an analog gauge reader for Beamex.
  • We experimented with different methods and models; Responsible for one of the algorithm’s two core components.
Computer vision
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Course team projectMay 2025

Multilingual Toxicity Detection

  • Participated in a course tournament on toxicity detection in English, German, and Finnish.
  • In charge of the language classifier and German toxicity detection.
  • Our team placed second.
Natural language processing
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Personal experimentJan 2025

Gomoku AI with Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm

  • My Christmas 2024 project.
  • Spent the holiday implementing a Gomoku engine, trying minimax and neural-network evaluation before settling on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS).
AlgorithmGame
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Course projectOct 2024

Credit Score Classification

  • My first machine learning course project.
  • My partner and I compared random forest and logistic regression for credit-score classification using Python, pandas, and scikit-learn.
Machine learning
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Course projectMay 2024

Movie Analysis with IMDb Data

  • A project from my first Python course.
  • Our team analyzed IMDb title metadata and ratings.
  • Created plots of average rating by year, adult-title share over five-year intervals, and runtime distribution.
Data analysis
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Course projectJun 2024

Fortress Fury — Tower Defense

  • My first project: a tower-defense game implemented in Scala with ScalaFX.
  • Designed all the graphics myself using PowerPoint.
Game
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Side projects

Personal tool

Botminton

  • A friend and I host a badminton group for our friends, with around 16 active players.
  • We built this bot-and-app combination to streamline session organization and cost sharing, and make the process more transparent.
Productivity
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EXPERIENCE

Building.
And helping others learn.

Software Engineer

Mar 2025 — Oct 2026
Propia Services Oy
  • One of the first two software engineers at a property-management startup founded by former BCG professionals.
  • Helped initiate, design, and build core platform modules, including a privileged LLM agent in production with broad system access and a document embedding and hybrid retrieval pipeline.
  • Took full ownership of some platform features.
  • Drove a broad range of product improvements that increased property managers' productivity and streamlined day-to-day operations.
  • Contributed to engineering decisions on feature design, system architecture, developer ergonomics, and internal workflows.

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2025 — Oct 2026

Aalto University

Helped students with course exercises during in-person sessions.

  • Basic Course in C programming (Jan–Aug 2025)
  • Databases for Data Science (Apr–May 2025)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms (Sep–Oct 2025)
  • Information Security (Sep–Oct 2026)

EDUCATION

A quantitative foundation.

Aalto University

Espoo, Finland

Master's Programme in Mathematics and Operations Research

Current GPA: 4.81/5.00

Sep 2026 — Present
  • Major: Systems and Operations Research
  • Minor (completed): Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
  • Elective Minor (in progress): Computational Finance and Risk Management
  • Expected graduation: June 2028

Bachelor's Programme in Science and Technology

GPA: 4.97/5.00 · Graduated with honours

Sep 2023 — Jun 2026
  • Major: Digital Systems and Design
  • Minor: Computer Science

Bachelor's thesis: Robust Fine-Grained Gesture Recognition via Continual Learning

Grade: 5/5

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Final project: CellSense — AI Assistant for Google Sheets

Grade: 5/5

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Foreign Language Specialized School

Hanoi, Vietnam

English major

GPA: 9.5

Sep 2020 — May 2023

QUALIFICATIONS

What I bring.

Programming languages

I’ve used programming across coursework, personal projects, and professional software development.

Python, SQL, Scala, JavaScript, C, C++, Bash / shell scripting, MATLAB (basic), R (basic), Julia (basic)

Software development

My experience spans university projects and production software at Propia, where I helped build core platform modules. Full Stack Open also gave me a structured foundation in web development.

FastAPI, Node.js / Express.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Git / GitHub, CI/CD, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Certifications

Full Stack Open — University of Helsinki. Certificate of completion (7 ECTS, grade 5), plus certificates for TypeScript, GraphQL, relational databases, containers, and CI/CD.

Full Stack Open TypeScript GraphQL Relational databases Containers CI/CD

AI coding tools

I’ve used Claude Code at work for more than a year, while Codex has become a helpful tool for my personal projects.

Claude Code, Codex

Microsoft Office

I’ve been making presentations with PowerPoint since I was 13, and earned Microsoft Office Specialist certifications in Excel and Word in 2022. I use Microsoft Teams and Outlook extensively at Propia and in my teaching assistant work.

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook

Certifications

  • Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel 2013
  • Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Word 2013.

Data & machine learning

I’ve explored data and machine learning through coursework, my bachelor’s thesis, and projects ranging from credit-score classification to multilingual toxicity detection. At work, I’ve helped build various AI-powered features.

NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, PyTorch, scikit-learn, RAG, OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini API integration, AI workflow automation, Langfuse

Languages

Vietnamese is my native language. I studied English at Foreign Language Specialized School and scored 7.5 in IELTS Academic in March 2022, equivalent to CEFR C1.

Vietnamese — Native, English — CEFR C1 equivalent

English test result

IELTS Academic: 7.5 (taken March 2022; CEFR C1 equivalent)

CONTACT

Let's connect.

For opportunities, projects, or a conversation.

vuminh25625@gmail.comnguyenvuminhhnguyenvuminhh