playanagrams.com ↗
A multiplayer word game built end to end — real-time play, ELO matchmaking, server-side anticheat, and hand-drawn art and sound. Past 5,000 matches.
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Work
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2025now
Software Engineer
Brighterway YC S24
San Francisco, CA
Building AI document infrastructure for healthcare. Halved our inference cost while making the document splitter more accurate, took client capacity 10× with HIPAA-compliant ingestion APIs, and shipped a voice agent that takes patient histories alongside physicians.
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2024summer
Researcher
New York City, NY
Multiple sclerosis lesions are rare enough that models starve for data, so I synthesized them — turning 177 real lesions into 10,000+ training samples. The network trained on them beat the published state of the art by 8%. First-author paper in progress.
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2023summer
Data Science Intern
Yale Center for Biodiversity & Global Change
New Haven, CT
Built species-distribution reporting for mol.org, including seasonal modelling that lets ecologists trace migration across the year.
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2022summer
AI Engineer
VinBigData
Hanoi, Vietnam
On the computer vision team, designing and testing deep learning methods for medical image segmentation — including a 3D U-Net built from scratch to segment liver lesions on CT scans.
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Projects
Splegg Work in progress
An adaptation of the Minecraft minigame, rebuilt in Unity — you shoot eggs to dissolve the floor out from under everyone else, last player standing wins.
Spatial Partitioning Engine ↗
My Yale senior thesis — a 3D game engine built from scratch in Python to benchmark BSP, BVH, and octree spatial partitioning, wrapped in a playable first-person game. BVH held the steadiest frame rate; octrees used the least memory.
Tam's Game Shack ↗
A home for the games I build — pick a title and play in the browser.
YHack ↗
Website and participant portal for Yale's official hackathon — 1,000+ hackers, $10,000+ in prizes each year.
ymeets.com ↗
Group scheduling for Yale students and faculty, without the back-and-forth.
Map of Life ↗
Report generation for species distribution models, so ecologists can see how a model performs and how species move.
Synthetic Rim Lesions
A method for synthesizing MS rim lesions on QSM scans to fix a brutal class imbalance — and a ResNet trained on them that beats QSMRim-Net.
VinBigData
A 3D U-Net built from scratch for liver lesion segmentation on CT, with the computer vision team.
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Stack
Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Java
- C++
- C
- R
- MATLAB
- SQL
Systems
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Firebase
Machine Learning
- PyTorch
- NumPy
- Pandas
- SciPy
- LLM pipelines
- Bedrock
Education
Yale University
BS Computer Science
BS Statistics & Data Science
May 2025
Teaching assistant — S&DS 265, Introductory Machine Learning
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Email me
tamvu2104@gmail.com
Contact
Always up for a conversation about backend systems, applied ML, or whatever you’re building. I also love hiking, rock climbing, and pickup basketball, so if you're in SF, hit me up!