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Chief of Revenue & Operations / Head of R&D

Next Robotics

Head of Robotics & AI Solutions

• Own presales and client acquisition end to end, from solution design and cost estimation for strategic bids to contract closing; delivered the company's all-time-high sales in 2026.
• Oversee hardware outsourcing, procurement and inventory for cost efficiency, and direct project delivery from planning to on-time, high-quality execution.
• Opened new markets with two ongoing projects in Japan and Korea, and won the first Physical AI project with a new strategic customer.
• Lead the R&D team on new strategic products: Physical AI for humanoids and quadrupeds, and LLM-based interaction for service robots.

Academic Leadership (part-time, concurrent)

Nguyen Tat Thanh University; University of Greenwich Vietnam

• Director, automa Lab (NTTU); helped launch the undergraduate Electric Vehicle major.
• Lecturer; designed syllabi for Self-Driving Operating Systems and Motion Planning.

Technical Lead

Next Robotics (FPT Software spin-off)

• Product Owner and system architect of the Fleet Management System (FMS) for AMRs: multi-robot coordination and motion planning; the first robot FMS developed in Vietnam.
• Achieved 2 mm AMR positioning accuracy, about 5 times more precise than the typical industry level.
• Led the engineering team from architecture to on-site commissioning at major FDI manufacturing sites; 50+ robots running continuously in 24-hour, 6-day-a-week operations.
• Engineered deployments to industrial safety standards: ISO 13849-1 (safety-related parts of control systems), ISO 3691-4 (driverless industrial trucks/AGVs), and ISO 14644 Class 6 cleanroom environments.

Solution Architect

FPT Software

• Motion Planning owner and architect for automated car parking and AMR products; approximately 10 cm parking accuracy and 3 cm AMR positioning accuracy.
• Delivered Vietnam's first complete automated parking system (perpendicular, parallel and angled) and the first multi-AMR warehouse deployments in Vietnam.

Robotics Software Engineer

VinAI Research

• Developed motion planning and control for autonomous vehicles using camera and RTK-GNSS localization over DDS middleware; supported public-road testing.
• Contributed to Vietnam's first autonomous vehicle operating on normal roads at high speed.

Robotics Software Engineer

Rapyuta Robotics

• Developed AMR behaviors and LiDAR SLAM on ROS, including an autonomous forklift with partners.
• Tested and benchmarked robot performance; set up and configured safety devices (SICK laser scanners, proximity sensors).

Combined M.S./Ph.D.

Sungkyunkwan University

Robotics (Quadruped Robots)

• Full scholarship.
• Thesis: Control Strategy for a Running Quadruped Robot with an Articulated Spine. Advisor: Prof. Hyouk Ryeol Choi.
• Publications: 2 journal articles, 2 IEEE/RSJ IROS papers, 2 URAI papers.

Engineer Degree

Danang University of Technology

Automation (PFIEV Program)

Silver Prize, OpenCV Spatial AI Competition

OpenCV

Full scholarship for the combined M.S./Ph.D. program

Sungkyunkwan University