Vu Minh Nguyen

Vu Minh Nguyen.

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.

PROJECTS

A few things I've worked on.

Research, applied AI, and software.

Featured projects

ThesisSep 2025

Robust Fine-Grained Gesture Recognition via Continual Learning

Research
  • 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.
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Client projectMay 2025

Computer Vision Analog Gauge Reader

Computer vision
  • 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.
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Personal experimentJan 2025

Gomoku AI with Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm

AlgorithmGame
  • 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).
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Course team projectMay 2025

Multilingual Toxicity Detection

Natural language processing
  • Participated in a course competition on toxicity detection in English, German, and Finnish.
  • In charge of the language classifier and German toxicity detection.
  • Our team placed second.
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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
Sep 2026 — Present

Master's Programme in Mathematics and Operations Research

Current GPA: 4.81/5.00

  • 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
Sep 2023 — Jun 2026

Bachelor's Programme in Science and Technology

GPA: 4.97/5.00

  • Graduated with honours
  • 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
Sep 2020 — May 2023

English major

GPA: 9.5

QUALIFICATIONS

What I bring.

Programming languages

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

Skills

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

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.

Skills

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

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.

Skills

  • Claude Code
  • Codex

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.

Skills

  • 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.

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.

Skills

  • Vietnamese — Native
  • English — C1

English test result

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

CONTACT

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