Nguyen Thanh Son

Nguyen Thanh Son is a Research Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Initiative under the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU), where he was advised by Associate Professor Hady Lauw. His research focuses on natural language processing, opinionated text mining, and multimodal deep learning. Previously, he completed a visiting PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and an internship at IBM Research Lab in Dublin, Ireland. He also earned a Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, with academic distinctions in research.

Research Interests: His work spans natural language processing, emotion recognition, knowledge base systems, and agentic AI. He has contributed to advancements in large language models, multimodal encoding, and retrieval-augmented systems.

Grants & Awards: He secured a Singapore Aerospace Programme grant (SGD 360,000) as PI and co-led an A*STAR grant (SGD 6 million). His accolades include the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship and top research prizes during his undergraduate studies.

Labs & Teams: Active in IHPC's AI initiatives and collaborated with CMU and IBM on projects like sentiment analysis and ontology building. His work bridges academic research and industrial applications in AI.