My (Chiffon) Nguyen she/her
Nguyễn Trà My / 阮沐茶 / 윈자미
AI Researcher & Life-long Learner
Pronunciation
My = /me/, Chiffon = /shi-FON/. I'm Chiffon in English-speaking context.
I research how to ensure that current and future AI systems reflect and support pluralism across languages, cultures, and social contexts.
- Pluralistic alignment, and more broadly AI Safety & trustworthy AI
- Multilingual & multicultural AI
- AI for human agency and augmentation in education, work, thinking, and beyond
I care about AI ethics, impacts of AI on humans and more-than-human world↗.
Ongoing work: CoT monitoring (Algoverse), AnimalHarmBench 2.0 extension (ElectricSheep), and cultural benchmarking (Cohere Labs).
I am applying to research-oriented Master’s in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or related fields for Spring 2027 and seeking research opportunities (internships, research assistantships, collaborations). For research collaborations, drop me an email!
Career highlights
see CV →- - Present
AI Research Mentee (Multilingual Agentic Evaluation) @ SEACrowd · Remote
Evaluating conversational agents on Tau2-Bench across five settings with increasing language and cultural adaptation. Mentors: Dr. Samuel Cahyawijaya (Cohere) & Patomporn Payoungkhamdee (VISTEC). In Submission
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AI Research Mentee (Chain-of-thought Monitoring) @ Algoverse AI Research · Remote
Lead project studying the boundaries of weak-to-strong chain-of-thought monitoring on safety-relevant evals (WMDP & SWEBench-Verified) using sandbagging as a case study.
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B.Sc in Computational Sciences @ Minerva University · San Francisco, CA, USA (+ Seoul, Taipei, Hyderabad, Buenos Aires, Berlin)
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Bayesian Modeling, Statistical Modeling & Causal Inference, Optimization Methods.
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ML Research Assistant @ Landshut University of Applied Sciences · Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
3D object detection in point clouds and point cloud registration, supervised by Prof. Eduard Kromer and Prof Sandra Eisenreich
Latest updates
see all →Started Futurekind AI Fellowship Spring 2026↗ where I research and build solutions in the intersection of AI and animal protection.
CommonLID↗ got accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference.
[Till Jun 2026] Working on extending Tau2-Bench for low-resource languages as a mentee at SEACrowd 2026 Apprentice Program↗.
Selected publications
see all →SEATauBench: Adapting Tool-Agent-User Evaluation Into Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages
In Submission, Pending Preprint • 2026
Abstract
We introduce SEATauBench, the first agentic-focused evaluation framework for sovereign AI development in Southeast Asia, a region of strategic importance with over 700 million people. Despite growing regional evaluation efforts, existing multilingual agents show limited capability when operating in SEA languages, particularly in mixed-language scenarios. Through evaluation across multiple adaptation approaches, we find that while English agentic capabilities transfer to target language responses, performance degrades significantly when context is provided in SEA languages. We propose a translation-based mitigation strategy that preserves entity consistency while enabling agents to leverage English comprehension. SEATauBench establishes a rigorous benchmark for sovereign AI agent assessment, providing diagnostic tools to address capability gaps and support agentic AI development in diverse linguistic communities in the region.
Miscellaneous
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My Vietnamese name is ‘Trà My’, which means Camellia japonica↗ (tea flower).
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I graduated in May 2025 from Minerva University↗ studying Machine Learning & Statistics, with peers from 50+ countries and living in 6 cities as part of its global immersion program↗: Seoul (South Korea), Chinese Taipei, Hyderabad (India), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Berlin (Germany). This experience heavily shapes my worldviews and motivates my research focus in diversity and collaboration.
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Things that restore my energy: walks, reading↗, cooking, cycling, card reading, and astrology. I also enjoy solo travel, food, cultural activities, and historical museums.
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Things that excite me outside research: teaching & mentoring, event planning and organizing, languages and cultures, philosophical and political discussions.
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I’m learning Mandarin Chinese (band 4/B1) and French (A2).
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I’m agnostic, with wonderful friends that are Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim.
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I’m on no-meat diet at least 4 days/week, and trying to transition to vegetarian diet.
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I like Rust-based and well-designed stuff. Recommend: Astral’s Python tooling↗ (uv, ruff, ty), Inspect↗ for reproducible LLM eval, LMMs-eval↗ for multimodal eval, Rust-based CLI (ripgrep↗, eza↗, bat↗). My hardware and apps here.