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Le Viet Quoc, AI engineer

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Mr Le Viet Quoc

In mid-March 2016, the artificial intelligence (AI) machine caused a shock when defeating the incumbent go champion Lee Sedol. 

However, the result of the match was not a big surprise to many people. Le Viet Quoc, 34, a software engineer at Google Brain, was one of the scientists working on the machine. 

Quoc, a Vietnamese born engineer, was honored by MIT as one of the 35 under-35 most talented inventors in 2014.

In mid-March 2016, the artificial intelligence (AI) machine caused a shock when defeating the incumbent go champion Lee Sedol. 
Quoc soon began realizing the great ability of AI at the age of 14. Later, when studying at the Australian National University for bachelor’s degree and then at Stanford University for doctorate, he had more opportunities to create software and test with AI, and realized that ‘computers can learn and think’.

Quoc found the solution and built a virtual neuron network capable to process data at the speed thousands of times faster than old methods. Google then decided to invite Quoc to work for Google Brain together with another AI scientist – Andrew Ng.

In 2012, by analyzing 10 million images from Youtube, the AI system invented by Quoc and his co-workers in Google X project could recognize humans and 3,000 different things, an event that stunned scientists.

Thuan Pham, Uber’s CTO

Uber’s CTO, a Vietnamese-born man, has had to deal with many upheavals in his life.

In 1979, Pham Thuan, who was then 10 years old, left Vietnam with his mother and younger brother.

Tech in Asia wrote that Thuan and his family members had to work hard to earn their living and experienced very difficult period in their lives. However, when talking about that time, Thuan said they did not panic. This is just a journey of a startup. Even if someone loses everything in one day, he can restart if he keeps calm.

In 1986, Thuan began studying at MIT. In 1991, he graduated from MIT and then worked for HP Labs, Silicon Graphics, DoubleClick and VMWare. 

Sonny Vu: Misfit firm employs best workers at best prices

Sonny Vu and his wife Le Diep Kieu Trang are the famous Vietnamese in Silicon Valley.

In November 2015, Sonny Vu’s Misfit was bought by Fossil Group at $260 million.

However, Sonny Vu was well known in 2012, when Misfit Wearables was put into operation. This company specializes in making wearable health monitoring devices.


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