KPTER: K-Pointer for Temporal Event Retrieval
Multimodal retrieval framework with a novel K-pointer sequential re-ranking algorithm and Weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion for temporal video event retrieval. Best Presentation Award at SOICT 2025.
I'm a Backend Engineer and AI Researcher based in Ho Chi Minh City, building production AI systems and multimodal retrieval pipelines.
My work sits between NLP, visual-language models, OCR, RAG, MLOps, and scalable backend infrastructure.
Currently studying Artificial Intelligence at University of Science, VNU-HCM.
Backend Engineer (AI Platform) · Nov 2025 - Present
Building robust Go and Python APIs, event-driven data pipelines, and Dockerized microservices for distributed AI services.
Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence · Aug 2023 - May 2027
GPA 8.79/10.0. Coursework includes DSA, OOP, networks, databases, operating systems, NLP, machine learning, data mining, and SE4AI.
Started as Backend Engineer on the AI Platform team at Acamar AI Vietnam.
Nov 2025
Multimodal retrieval framework with a novel K-pointer sequential re-ranking algorithm and Weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion for temporal video event retrieval. Best Presentation Award at SOICT 2025.
A zero-shot ensemble for image retrieval and prompt-guided captioning, ranked Top-4 on the private test set of the EVENTA Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2025.
An in-depth technical analysis of the architectures and algorithms behind award-winning solutions at ACM Multimedia 2025, SOICT 2025, and the engineering strategies to scale them in production.
A comprehensive MDX template demonstrating every available feature: callouts, code blocks with diffs, math, tables, images, and more.