My (Chiffon) Nguyen

My (Chiffon) Nguyen she/her/hers

Nguyễn Trà My / 阮沐茶 / 윈자미

AI Researcher & Life-long Learner

hi [at] [domain] San Francisco, CA, USA
Pronunciation

My = /me/, Chiffon = /shi-FON/. I'm Chiffon in English-speaking context.

I’m interested in current and future AI systems that reflect and support diverse human experiences across languages, cultures, values, and social contexts:

  • Socio-technical AI Alignment: pluralistic alignment, scalable oversight, evaluation, and interpretability
  • Multilingual & multicultural AI: investigate and improve cross-lingual and -cultural understanding in AI systems

I broadly care about AI Safety, AI ethics and impacts of AI on humans, society, and more-than-human world↗.

I’m currently involved in SEACrowd↗, Cohere Labs Community↗, and Algoverse↗. Previously, I graduated in May 2025 from Minerva University↗ studying Machine Learning & Statistics, while living with peers from 50+ countries and engaging civically in 6 cities as part of its global rotation program↗: Seoul (South Korea), Chinese Taipei , Hyderabad (India), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Berlin (Germany).

As I’m still early in my research journey, I’m open to collaborations and conversations about any of the above topics. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in working together or just want to chat about AI research!

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I will be attending NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, USA from Dec 2 to 8! 🎉 This will be my first time attending NeurIPS, and I’m excited to connecting with researchers and attending tutorials and workshops in multilingual AI, AI alignment, and more.

Started working on scaling behavior of chain-of-though monitoring in white-box models with Yeonwoo (Eyon) Jang↗.

Joined SEACrowd↗ core team, building website, handling internal admin, and contributing to research initiatives, including the development of SEA-VL↗, vision-language model.

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Miscellaneous

  • I’m a minimialist, fiction reader↗, language learner (Mandarin Chinese & French), and plant-based cook. I have 2 Tarot↗ and 1 Lenormand↗ decks, which I read for fun and reflection.

  • I’m an event planner and organizer. I led Vietcode (19-20) and Developh Vietnam (20-21), and organized SheCodes Vietnam (18-19) and AngelHack Vietnam (2020) hackathons. On smaller scales, I’m responsible for family travel planning and friend hangouts, particularly potlucks, board game nights, and powerpoint parties.

  • I love teaching, learning, and deliberating. I can dabble across linguistics, sex and gender, justice (social, environmental, algorithmic, epistemic justice), and political philosophy, thanks to global studies, wonderful friends and a lot of rabbit holes.