Minh Quang Lieu

I am currently pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech with a 4.0 GPA. I have gained valuable research experience working in two computer science labs, one of which was awarded the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Last summer, I completed a software engineering internship at Unit Technology Corporation, a leading tech company in Vietnam, where I gained practical development experience.

Beyond my academic and professional work, I am passionate about participating in hackathons to solve real-world problems and expand my technical skills through projects. I was proud to win first prize at the Microsoft Azure AI Developer Hackathon by developing a full-stack chat application with real-time multilingual translation. These experiences have equipped me with a strong technical foundation, solid research background, and a proactive attitude that I am eager to bring to this position.

Software Engineer Intern - Unit Technology Corporation       May 2024 - Sep 2024

• Technologies: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Material UI, Java, AWS
• Collaborated with 6 interns to develop a virtual library website featuring 2,000 online books for over 500 users.
• Utilized Redux to manage application state, including user information, borrowed books, and transaction history across the app, resulting in a 40% increase in app responsiveness.
• Designed an AWS-based data storage solution to reduce application latency by 30% and improve 50% data retrieval.
• Used React Hook Form with Yup for efficient form validation to decrease book request submission errors by 30%.

Research Mentor - The Uniqueness of Source Code - University of Houston              Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 

• Technologies: Python, Natural Language Toolkit, Pandas, Matplotlib 
• Led a group of 2 students under Dr. Amin Alipour to analyze the uniqueness of source code, contributing to research funded by the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship.
• Analyzed the syntactic structures in over 1,000 public GitHub projects using Python’s NLTK library alongside pandas and matplotlib by calculating percentage similarity to identify common patterns.
• Generated a list of 100 reusable code snippets to support software development practices.

Research Assistant - Real-Time Systems - University of Houston                                            Aug 2023 - Dec 2023     

• Technologies: Python, TraCI, SUMO, Matplotlib
• Worked with one peer under Dr. Albert Cheng to develop an optimal routing system, improving vehicle flow during peak traffic congestion.
• Employed the TraCI interface with SUMO to control vehicles in a simulated traffic environment programmatically by developing over 40 test cases to validate the dynamic routing strategies.
• Applied Dijkstra’s algorithm to model dynamic user equilibrium and analyze traffic flow patterns, achieving a reduction in average travel time by over 50%.

Georgia Institute of Technology      

Master of Science in Computer Science