Jimmy Nguyen844 San Mateo Court, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

¬ (408) 409-0201 • 7 nguyen.jimmy94@gmail.comr https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-nguyen-3613569a

A recent UCLA graduate with a passion for computational linguistics, eager to get more hands-on experiencewith language engineering technologies. Always willing to learn and to adapt to new, ever-evolving technologiesand frameworks for advancing linguistic applications.

Job Experience

�Netbase Solutions Mountain View, CAComputational Linguist Intern June 2015 to September 2015I developed and maintained a sentiment lexicon for Vietnamese and aided in the development of sentimentanalysis rules for Vietnamese to extract the sentiment of Vietnamese soundbites from Twitter and othervarious forms of social media for various brands. In order to expedite the lexicon building process, I createdsome JAVA-based tools to help with information extraction.

Research Experience

�UCLA: Vietnamese Poetry Metrics Los Angeles, CAResearch Assistant to Ph.D Candidate, Meng Yang July 2016 to August 2016Using my near-native intuition of Vietnamese, I aided in ensuring that existing word-for-word Vietnamese toEnglish translations for Vietnamese epic "The Tale of Kieu" were accurate and in encoding metrical breaksbetween words as per Meng’s metric system.

�UCLA: Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages Project Los Angeles, CAResearch Assistant to Dr. Hilda Koopman April 2016 to June 2016I assisted Professor Koopman in the great migration of data from the old SSWL database to the new Terralingdatabase. I also tested new syntactic properties for the Vietnamese language and thus contributing to thenew database.

�Distributed Little Red Hen Lab Los Angeles, CAResearch Assistant June 2014 to February 2015I annotated closed captioning feeds with part-of-speech tags and utilized some Python scripts in order tooptimize the annotation process.

Education

Academics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

�University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CABachelor of Arts, Linguistics and Computer Science, GPA: 3.55 2012 to 2016UCLA 2015 Sharpe Fellow

�Yonsei University Seoul, South KoreaUCEAP Study Abroad Program, 2015

�Fremont High School Sunnyvale, CACalifornia Scholarship Federation Member, 2009 to 2012

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Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Syntax II Paper Passive Constructions in VietnameseI propose a revision to the Syntactic Hierarchy of Projections to account for Vietnamese passive constructionsand propose new case markings to account for the syntactic variations between the passivization ofintransitive and transitive verbs in Vietnamese.

� Phonology I Paper Codas of French Loanwords in VietnameseI show how the clashing phonotactics of codas of French and Vietnamese resolve themselves duringadaptation of French. As French and Vietnamese both sport different restraints on consonants in codas, Iattempt to account for adaptations of codas in Vietnamese through rule-based sound changes.

� Phonetics PaperThe Phonetics of KoreanI map out the phonetics of Korean using speech data from a Korean speaker who speaks the Busan dialectof Korean.

Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

� Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference 2016 Passive Constructions in VietnameseI presented my work on Vietnamese passives through a brief and succinct Powerpoint presentation and asubsequent QA session with both peers and faculty members at UCLA.

� 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association VolunteerI worked as a volunteer for the conference, ensuring that each workshop ran smoothly by providing technicalassistance as needed and giving reminders to presenters to end their presentations in a timely manner.

Technical Skills

� Programming Languages: [Proficient]: C, C++, Java, Python, Lisp | [Basic]: OCaml, HTML

� Natural Languages: [Native]: English | [Heritage/Near-Native]: Vietnamese | [Intermediate]: French |[Basic]: Korean

� Social Media: WordPress, Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Hobbies and Extracurricular Activities

� I am social activist who focuses on Asian American issues. I have been on board for the Asian PacificCoalition at UCLA for two years and have fought for additional funding for student retention programson campus, put on a panel and resource fair to bring awareness to Asian American mental health issues,and have put on workshops in order to educate peers on various issues that affect the Asian Americancommunity at large.

� I enjoy listening to Korean pop music and run a blog in which I analyze and review recent Korean popreleases. I hope to further expand this blog to cover a wider range of material that will feature moresocially conscious content to more comedic posts.

� In my spare time, I enjoy teaching myself music theory so I can diversify my piano covers of Korean popsongs. I like to improvise and cover Korean pop songs on the piano by ear and I hope to teach myselfenough guitar basics so I can also cover more pop music on the guitar as well.

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