I explore machines in space and time.
About
Hello, I'm Hao (Hank), MSc student at UofA, advised by
Dr. Ngan Le.
My research focuses on spatial and physical understanding -
injecting geometric and physical priors into robotic systems.
Longer term, I aim to help these systems act reliably, advancing from task-specific
solutions toward general-purpose, collaborative autonomy.
Selected Publications
OmniSpace: Efficient Geometry Awareness for Autonomous Vehicles MLLMs
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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Awards
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2024
First Prize
AI City Challenge (Track 5), NVIDIA
Built detection models that stay reliable under extreme conditions, including long-tailed classes, fog, edge cases, and distribution shift.
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2022
First Prize
Vietnam HCM AI Challenge
Built an interactive multi-modal video retrieval system that searches terabyte-scale data in under a second.
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2025
Second Prize
Vietnam Ministerial-level Scientific Research
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2023
Second Prize
FPT Vietnam AI Challenge
Pitched a lost-and-found system combining retrieval with a RAG model, developed as a startup concept with a working proof of concept.
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2021
Third Prize
BKAI - Naver Challenge
Scene text recognition (OCR) under varied real-world conditions.
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2024
Finalist
Zalo AI Challenge
Personalized generative model that produces advertisements from text descriptions.