Hello, my name is Tai Sanh Nguyen! I'm a student at Princeton University, with research interests broadly in theoretical computer science and applied mathematics. My background is interdisciplinary in working with complex software systems and conducting research in theoretical computer science.

Experience

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignVisiting Student Researcher

2026 — Now

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Research Advisors: Prof. George Chacko and Prof. Tandy Warnow

Scaling massive network analysis.

IMC TradingIncoming Software Engineer

2026 — Now

Chicago, Illinois

Low-latency execution.

Princeton UniversityUndergraduate Researcher @ Dept. of Computer Science

2024 — Now

Princeton, New Jersey

(SP26) Research Advisor: Prof. Kai Li and Ph.D Candidate Andrew Sheinberg

Memory-efficient transformer training.

(SP25) Research Advisor: Prof. Matthew Weinberg

Auction Theory & Blockchain

(SP25) Research Advisor: Prof. Aarti Gupta

Formal verification using Verus.

(FA24) Research Advisor: Prof. Huacheng Yu

Differential privacy of community detection algorithms through debiased spectral co-clustering in stochastic co-block models.

Princeton UniversityUndergraduate Research Assistant @ Cognition in Collectives Lab

2024 — 2025

Princeton, New Jersey

Research Advisors: Prof. Alin Coman and Ph.D Candidate Ari Dyckovsky

Building and leading R&D on software infrastructure for online dynamic interactive networks for research in collective psychological processes in large-scale social networks. Collaborating with researchers to apply the platform in studies of social dynamics and collective behavior.

Princeton UniversityUndergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Dept. of Computer Science

2024 — 2025

Princeton, New Jersey

(COS445) Algorithmic Game Theory

(COS324) Introduction to Machine Learning

(COS226) Data Structures & Algorithms

(COS217) Introduction to Programming Systems

Education

Princeton University

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E)

2022 — 2026

Tsinghua University

Exchange Student

2025 — 2026

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Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E)

Exchange Student

Experience