About me
I'm thrilled to have you here! My name is Tam, and I'm a Computer Science student specializing in robotics and AI-driven systems, with experience in full-stack development. I'm actively seeking research and internship opportunities where I can contribute to innovative projects, collaborate with experts, and apply my technical skills to real-world challenges.
If you're interested in collaborating on cutting-edge robotics research or impactful software engineering projects, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Research Experience
October 2023-October 2025
Undergraduate Researcher @The RARE Lab USF
• Lead a research to utilize tabletop social robot Misty integrated with Ollama for storytelling and engineer algorithms for real-time analysis of user input and environmental cues, enabling robot's dynamic emotion expression
• Successfully deployed containerized Ollama solution on GAIVI cloud service, resulting in 35% improvement in processing speed and latency.
• Designed and prototyped 10+ features of robots using Unity and Blender for improved human-robot interaction and navigation for a research published at HRI and IEEE conference.
• Awarded UR2PhD REU funding from NSF and CRA (May 2025 - August 2025) to support advanced research in human-robot interaction and AI integration.
Publications
Implementing LLM-Integrated Storytelling Robot
To Understand Indicators of Robots’ Vision Capabilities
Designing Indicators to Show a Robot’s Physical Vision Capability
Teaching Experience
Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant - Programming Concepts
• Support students in foundational programming concepts and problem-solving techniques
• Assist with course instruction, grading, and providing one-on-one guidance to students
• Hold regular office hours to help students with programming assignments and course material
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant - Data Structures
• Facilitated learning of advanced data structures including trees, graphs, and hash tables
• Provided guidance on algorithm complexity analysis and implementation strategies
• Mentored students in debugging techniques and code optimization practices
Work Experience and Leadership
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January 2024-May 2024
Software Engineer Intern @OrbexLabs
• Build 30+ Django REST API endpoints for view pages to create, search and retrieve documents from PostgreSQL
• Design web page layouts and implemented user-friendly React components and Bootstrap
• Develop a GPT-based virtual assistant to aid users in managing documents and leverage fastSAM with FastAPI for efficient form field detection from user interactions.
• Deploy the web application in a containerized Docker environment on Google Cloud Run
November 2023-Present
Web Developer Chair @USF BMES
• Spearheaded the development and maintenance of the BMES website, implementing responsive design and enhancing user experience.
• Host 3 workshops to 50+ attendees about Python in programming and data analysis, fostering interdisciplinarity
• Mentor 5+ students in Computer Science in shadowing and mentorsip program by providing support, and insights to help them navigate their academic and professional journeys
