About me
Hi, I’m Bách, a Linguist/Cognitive Scientist from Việt Nam.
I am a PhD student @QLVL Research Group @KU Leuven, working as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network CASCADE. My topic is Underlying dimensions in conceptual change, in which I would apply distributional semantics to reveal and explain shifts in conceptual associations of different concepts through time.
I developed an interest in Linguistics in the third year of my Finance undergrad. I then obtained an MSc in Linguistics from the University of Stirling and also became the first student in the history of the department of Linguistics to be awarded the Research Based Learning Prize for the Best Master Dissertation in Literature and Languages.
After Stirling, I spent some time working as an NLP Engineer and expanding my understanding of the field of Cognitive Science (Philosophy, (Cognitive) Psychology, (Cognitive/Computational) Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence) before coming to Leuven.
I am familiar with Quantitative/Statistical methods, Python and R Programming, and several Machine/Deep Learning models. I have also worked in different domains of NLP (Large Language Models, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech). Besides learning and researching about languages, I’m also experienced in teaching languages (English, Vietnamese) to different types of learners.
My research interests are Semantics, Language Change and Variation. I am also interested in linguistic representation in (large) language models. My other, non-academic interests are Martial Arts and (Classical) Singing (I am a Full Lyric Tenor).