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A researcher based in Japan, from Binh Dinh
The scenery from my lab, on Kodak 800 color film

The scenery from my lab, on Kodak 800 color film

Education

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Masters:
  Institute: "Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology"
  Major: "Knowledge Science"
  ResearchTopics:
    - Evidential Deep Learning
    - Knowledge Graph
    - Explainable Machine Learning

Bachelors:
  Institute: "University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City"
  Major: "Computer Science"
  Range: [2019, 2023]
  ResearchTopics:
    - Machine Translation

For professional experience and publications, refer to my LinkedIn.

A Wanderer

Elaina - The Wandering Witch

Elaina - The Wandering Witch

While “engineer” or “researcher” might be the conventional label for my professional work, I’ve always gravitated to being a wanderer.

From tinkering with old computers, bricking and reviving Android devices during secondary school, and running unlikely operating systems on unsupported hardware, I’ve often found myself exploring technology in slightly unconventional ways. With the exception of Apple devices, none of my phones have stayed on the operating system they originally shipped with.

That tendency has carried over into my research, hacking around with systems, and following curiosity wherever it happens to lead.

Current interests: analog photography, selfhosting.

Current toys

  • Main workstation: MacBook Air M4
  • Secondary workstation: MacBook Air M1
  • Toy NAS: Mac Mini Mid-2011 (4GB/1TB; Ubuntu)
  • Handheld console: Anbernic RG35XXSP
  • Camera: Lumix G100D, with a limited collection of lenses
  • Film camera: Olympus Pen D1, Canonet QL19Giii
  • Boring things: iPad Pro M1, iPhone 16 Pro

Retired toys

Click to expand: PC
  • ThinkPad T14s (R5 4650U; 16/512; dualboot Arch Linux–Windows)
  • ThinkPad T430s (i5-3230M; 8/256; tri-boot macOS/Hackintosh–Arch Linux–Windows)
  • Potato i3-2100 PC (4/320)
  • Potato Pentium 4 PC (2/80)
  • Potato Pentium III PC
Click to expand: Gadgets
  • Symbian phones: Nokia 2700c (2011), Nokia X2-01 (‘13), Nokia Asha 303 (‘14)
  • Smartphones: Galaxy GT-S5300s (‘15), Zenfone 2 (‘15), Redmi 5 Plus (‘17), Redmi Note 9s (‘20), iPhone 13 (‘23)
  • Tablets: FonePad 7 (‘13), MatePad 10.4 (‘22)
  • Camera: Canon PowerShot G7X, PowerShot SX-400HS, PowerShot A490

What’s ‘hiraki’?

It’s the kunyomi reading of my name in kanji. A linguistically correct Japanese alias.

Recommended content

I don’t read books because I’m lazy. Recently I have picked up the habit of reading light novels for the sake of learning Japanese (going through the Shinkanzen Master N2 Dokkai is boring).

YouTube Channels

I cannot stand having dinner without these. Also, shoutout to these channels that helped me score a 9.0 in the IELTS listening test (2023).

📺 Retrotech: This Does Not Compute, LGR, Action Retro, MichaelMJD

📚 Knowledge: Asianometry, ColdFusion

📚 Japanese: Kaname Naito (for casual learning), 出口日語 (for JLPT)