My passion for research began in 2019, when I joined the 34th university-level scientific
research competition and was fortunate enough to win first prize. That moment set the tone
for everything that followed.
After graduating in 2020, I balanced a full-time engineering career with continuous research
and self-study. Five years later, in 2024, I was awarded a full PhD fellowship by the FCT,
the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, allowing me to dedicate myself to
research at the University of Minho.
Along this journey I have built deep, hands-on experience across a wide range of fields:
metaheuristic optimization, structural health monitoring, digital twins, and increasingly
Artificial Intelligence as the connective tissue between them. Today, AI sits at the
center of my work, and through it I have published Q1 journal articles and contributed
to research projects spanning engineering, science, and applied intelligence.
Education
2024 - Present
PhD in Civil Engineering · AI Research
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal · FCT Fellowship
2020 - 2022
Master's in Bridge Engineering
University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi, Vietnam
2015 - 2020
Bachelor of Engineering
University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi, Vietnam
