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’m doing CoT monitoring research at Algoverse↗, multilingual agentic eval at SEACrowd↗, and AI x animals project at Electric Sheep↗.
I research how to ensure that current and future AI systems reflect and support pluralism across languages, cultures, and social contexts, through robust AI evals and realistic environment (data, agent harness, system, etc):
- Socio-technical AI Alignment: pluralistic alignment, evaluation (capabilities, propensities, safeguards), (mis)generalization, interpretability
- Multilingual & multicultural AI: evaluate and improve cross-lingual and -cultural transfer and reasoning
- AI & Society: education, information & media, human-AI collaboration
I broadly care about AI Safety, AI ethics and impacts of AI on humans, society, and more-than-human world↗.
Previously, 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).
I am applying to research-oriented Master’s in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or related fields for Fall 2026/Spring 2027 and seeking research opportunities (internships, research assistantships, collaborations).
Career highlights
see CV →- - Present
AI Research Mentee (Multilingual Agentic Evaluation) @ SEACrowd · Remote
Extending Tau3-Bench for multilingual agentic evaluation across 5 settings. Mentors: Dr. Samuel Cahyawijaya (Cohere) & Patomporn Payoungkhamdee (VISTEC). Target: EMNLP '26.
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AI Research Mentee (Chain-of-thought Monitoring) @ Algoverse AI Research · Remote
Lead project investigating whether weaker models can detect sandbagging in stronger models on safety evals. Evaluated 20 open-weight reasoning model pairs. Target: ICML '26 Workshop
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B.Sc in Computational Sciences @ Minerva University · San Francisco, CA, USA (+ Seoul, Taipei, Hyderabad, Buenos Aires, Berlin)
GPA 3.67/4.00. 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 Tau3-Bench for low-resource languages as a mentee at SEACrowd 2026 Apprentice Program↗.
Miscellaneous
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My Vietnamese name is ‘Trà My’, which means Camellia japonica↗ (tea flower).
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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 politcal 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.