BSc Computer Science, MSc Financial Engineering. Founder of One Level Studio. Author of the research paper DNA-Inspired Time Series Encoding. My original name is "Bùi Quang Bảo" and academic name is "Bao Bui-Quang". People also know me as "Bryan" on Instagram, where I shared my interest in sport motorcycles with the community.

Bao Bui-Quang, Bùi Quang Bảo, Bryan

Bao Bui-Quang, Bùi Quang Bảo, Bryan

Bao Bui-Quang

BScCS • MScFE

Bao Bui-Quang

Bùi Quang Bảo

2001

Research

DNA-Inspired Time Series Encoding: A Glimpse Into The Next 4-Hour Timeframe

Preprint Publication - Open Access - Language: EN

Encoding Methodology for Quantitative Forecasting

Sole Author

NYX: A wikipedia-finetuned Gemma-based LLM with performance-quality trade-off

Technical Experiment - Demo - Language: EN

Generative Large Language Model

One Level Studio

AMP®-Parkinson's Disease Progression Prediction

Research Report - Open Access - Language: VI

Biological Chemistry Data Mining

Co-Author

Parallel LSTM for Sequence Prediction from Sequential Data

Research Report - Open Access - Language: EN

Multi-Threads Parallel Computing

Sole Author

Academic

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2023

VNU - Vietnam National University

HCMUS, Faculty of Information Technology, 2019 - 2023

Bachelor's Degree, Major in Computer Science / Data Science

AMP®-Parkinson's Disease Progression Research - Analysis, Mining, and Prediction
- Read The Full Report ›
- We used biological chemistry data measurements (proteins/peptides abundance) from Parkinson patients to understand and predict progression of the disease (using MDS-UPDRS scores), provide information about which molecules change as Parkinson's disease progresses.
- Our work (public notebook kernel) got more than 45 upvotes and awarded a Notebook Silver Medal on Kaggle, subsidiary of Google LLC.
Parallel LSTM Training for Sequence Prediction from Sequential Data
- Read The Full Report › | Source Code & Explanation ›
- We analyzed and paralleled the LSTM model (an RNN - Recurrent Neural Network) in order to improve its training speed and efficiency. We utilized NVIDIA GPU power for multi-threads parallel computing. The specific task that we applied for the demo is time-series prediction - sequence prediction from sequential data (seq2seq).
- Our ParallelV3 is 1700% efficiency compared to Sequential version.

Master of Science in Financial Engineering

2025

WorldQuant, LLC - WorldQuant University

WQU, MScFE Program, Remote Education, 2023 - 2025

Master's Degree, Major in Financial Engineering

Paper “DNA-Inspired Time Series Encoding: A Glimpse Into The Next 4-Hour Timeframe”
- Read The Full Preprint › | BibTeX ›
- We introduce a bio‑inspired encoding framework for forecasting the direction of financial time series. Motivated by the limitations of linear models and the opacity of many deep learning approaches, we draw an analogy to genetics: observable micro‑patterns are encoded into symbolic "Financial DNA" sequences. These sequences are then analyzed using a probabilistic state‑transition mechanism to estimate the likelihood of subsequent market directions. We evaluate the approach on Bitcoin hourly OHLCV data with a rolling backtest. Among the horizons considered, modeling transitions from current Financial DNA patterns to the 4‑hour‑ahead price direction yields the strongest results, achieving a win ratio of 0.729. The findings suggest that compact, interpretable symbolic representations can capture salient, recurring structures in noisy, non‑stationary markets and support effective directional forecasts.
- DOI: 10.33774/COE-2025-JMMNX
WorldQuant BRAIN®
- WorldQuant Challenge® - Gold Level - 2024 ›
- WorldQuant Challenge® - Gold Level - 2025 ›

Footprints

VNPT Group

2024 - Present

Solutions Engineer

IT Center / Solutions Department

Design and develop the core of the information extraction system for land-use-rights-certificate digitization.
Design and develop the core of the AI assistant system for the Lam Dong Provincial Party Congress, term 2025-2030 (Đại hội Đại biểu Đảng bộ tỉnh Lâm Đồng nhiệm kỳ 2025-2030).
Design and develop the core of LLM information retrieval system for administrative procedure documents
- National Public Service Portal (Cổng Dịch vụ công Quốc gia)
- Ministry of Public Security (Bộ Công an)
- Lam Dong Province (Tỉnh Lâm Đồng trước sáp nhập 2025)
- Lang Son Province (Tỉnh Lạng Sơn trước sáp nhập 2025)
- An Giang Province (Tỉnh An Giang trước sáp nhập 2025)
Design and develop the core of automatic scoring system based on computer vision for multiple choice tests
- Department of Education and Training (Sở Giáo dục và Đào tạo)
Design and develop the core of machine translation system to translate between Vietnamese language and ethnic minority language
- Tien Giang Province (Tỉnh Tiền Giang)
  - Ba Na (ISO 639-3: bdq) - Việt (ISO 639-3: vie)
- Lam Dong Province (Tỉnh Lâm Đồng)
  - K'Ho (ISO 639-3: kpm) - Việt (ISO 639-3: vie)
  - Chu Ru (ISO 639-3: cje) - Việt (ISO 639-3: vie)

VNG Corporation

2022

Product Designer / Operator

Game-Entertainment (GE) / Global IP / MadPoly Studio

Market & Product Research: User Journey & FTUE, Octalysis, Users Behavior Analysis & Segmentation [1], Core Loop, Systems/Mechanics [2], Monetization [3], UI/UX.
- [1] Analyze using Gamer Motivation Model from Quantic Foundry, or Google Play's Player Types.
- [2] Different games, different genres, different research purposes... have different systems and mechanics to focus. For example, with PUBG MOBILE, focus on Weapons, Gears, Items, Vehicles system; while with Candy Crush Saga, focus on Game Difficulty, Pacing and Pinch Point.
- [3] Includes: Economy/Currencies System, IAP Mechanics (focus on IAP Recommended Packs and Event Battle Pass), Rules and Vectors of Monetization, EV (Expected Value) Estimation, Target User Segment.
A/B Testing: Level Design: Re-design/Optimize current levels and design new levels that meet Master Roadmap requirements.
LiveOps: Brainstorm and propose themes for PvP Seasons and Event Battle Pass. Analyze, brainstorm and propose solutions/changes/features to solve players' issues/needs from User Review Report by Customer Support team.
Game Balancing: Adjust difficulty curve, balance source (tap) & sink, prevent in-game economy from inflation (but some inflation is fun ;))
Product under operation: DEAD TARGET
- Info: Google Play | SensorTower | Trailer
- Business model: Freemium with IAP
- July 2022 Performance (SensorTower stats):
  - Worldwide Downloads: 2M/month
  - Worldwide Revenue: $200,000/month
  - Top 50 Grossing-Game/Action in US

Involvements

Microsoft Student Ambassador

2021 - 2022

Microsoft Corporation, MLSA Program, Alpha Milestone

Leagues: AI and ML, Data and Analytics, Mobile and WebDev

President of Academic Club Design ITUS

2020 - 2021

VNU - Vietnam National University

HCMUS, Faculty of Information Technology

Member since 2019, president term 2020 - 2021
facebook.com/design.itus ›

Honors

Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam

(Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam)

Read article on gov.vn ›

VnExpress

(Báo điện tử thuộc Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ)

Read article on vnexpress.net ›
Read article on archive.org ›

Miscellaneous

Gold Level - Global Rank Top 1.15%

2024

Worldwide, WorldQuant BRAIN Challenge®

WorldQuant, LLC

Silver Medal - Parkinson's Disease Progression Research

2023

Worldwide, Kaggle Competition, hosted by AMP®-PD

Notebook Silver Medal by Kaggle, subsidiary of Google LLC

🏆 Winner of AI Hackathon "RESET 1010" - Third Prize

2020

Nationwide, Artificial Intelligence Competition

Awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam

6 x 🏆 Violympic Mathematics Provincial Awards

2012 - 2017

Nationwide, Mathematics Competition

Awarded by the Department of Education and Training of Vietnam

6 consecutive years, 2012 - 2017

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Hold on a second, important note

This tab "Logs" is just a collection of personal opinions and memes, in no particular order, so please don't take it too seriously. Have fun.

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About my names

My original name is "Bùi Quang Bảo", where "Bùi Quang" is my family name and "Bảo" is my given name ("Bảo", as in bảo vật, means "treasure" in Vietnamese).

To avoid confusion when working with non-Vietnamese colleagues and to ensure consistency in academic references, I have used "Bao Bui-Quang" as my academic name since 2019. Since then, I have used "Bao Bui-Quang" for almost everything I publish on the internet.

Some people also know me as "Bryan" on Instagram, where I shared my interest in sport motorcycles with the community back in 2024.

You can simply use "Bảo", "Bao" or "Bryan" to communicate with me.

The problems of traditional academic publishing. And why I am biased toward open science.

In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of an article that precedes peer-review. Peer-review is the process where other experts in the same field evaluate a researcher's work before it is published in a journal. It sounds really good, until the giant journals became greedy and they just do not care about science anymore.

With the keyword "the cost of knowledge" or "Elsevier boycott events" on search engines, you can see these kinds of posts:
• Academic Journal Pricing and Research Dissemination
• MIT - The Cost of Knowledge
• Elsevier Statement
• thecostofknowledge.com
• Too greedy mass walkout at global science journal
• University of California boycotts publishing giant
• Wikipedia - The Cost of Knowledge

Some ironic discussions on Reddit:
• r/facepalm - "Guess who's a part of the problem" (60K upvotes)
• r/academia - "Somehow this seems really ironic..."

Those giant journals even lobbying just to make open science look bad and push against open access:
• Elsevier lobbying UKRI last minute over OA policy
• r/AskAcademia - "...they have been lobbying and pushing against open access..."

Let's put the money aspect aside, how about the quality aspect? It will be okay if the peer-review process of those journals actually ensures the quality of the research papers they publish. But, does it?
• r/academia - "Obvious ChatGPT in a published paper"
• r/academia - "How does this even pass peer review?"
• r/academia - "This is a real paper in Springer..."
• Journals infiltrated with copycat papers that can be written by AI
• AI is Bound to Academic Publishing — ChatGPT is Cleared for Peer Review

I'm definitely not here to say publishing in journals is bad. It's actually kinda cool in my eyes.

If your paper just got accepted by a journal, congrats, your work will be known more by researchers. But it doesn't mean you are the scientific truth. It means "your paper got accepted by a journal", that's all. And if your paper was rejected by a journal, it doesn't mean your work is bad, it just means your work is not aligned with that journal's needs.

The RoBERTa paper was rejected at ICLR 2020. The paper has more than 23K citations now.

The YOLOv3 paper was only published on arXiv preprint server as a "tech report" (the legend Joseph Redmon just doesn't care about publishing in journals). The paper has more than 37K citations now, and YOLO is arguably the most widely used vision detection backbone on edge devices. YOLOv5 even never released a paper, and there is a funny GitHub issue where people keep asking for a paper.

Let's judge a research paper by actually reading the research paper, and consider it good or bad by how valuable it is to yourself.

My two cents on "AI"

As a person who is interested in both technology (I have a bachelor's degree in computer science) and art (1K+ people follow my 3D works on ArtStation since 2022), I have mixed feelings about "AI".

"Artificial Intelligence", no, there is no actual intelligence here, just probability and statistics powered by strong computing. "AI", "Deep/Machine Learning", "Agent", "Neural Network", etc. are mostly buzzwords for marketing, they make non-technical people feel a sense of "magic". Just look at how most of the tech giants use emojis like ✨, 🪄, 🔮 to represent AI features in their apps.

If you ask me whether I support or anti AI, to be honest, I don't know.

Is AI illegal? No. There is no country in the world that totally bans the use of AI. Governments even want to promote these buzzwords.

Is AI unethical? This question is hard, because ethic is such a gray zone. For me, maybe the training process is. Most models were trained (and are still being trained) on all kinds of materials (texts, images, videos, audio, 3D models, etc.) without the authors' consent.

Is AI training reversible? Unfortunately, no. Even if laws are introduced to restrict crawling and scraping now, this is irreversible. The AI models have ALREADY been trained, and all the "*.safetensors" are floating around the "blue nowhere", ready to be downloaded and used, both for good and for bad.

Is AI helpful? Yes. Especially for those who use coding to "talk to" and make computers do what they want, like me. I barely need to use StackOverflow anymore, and even fine-tune and deploy local LLMs myself. At the moment, I think developers, or anyone who codes, are the ones who benefit the most from AI.

Is AI harmful? Yes. Deepfake p*rn. Scams. Fake news. And the dead internet theory.

What about people losing their jobs to AI? I don't think so. No one is losing their job to AI. However, people may lose their competitive advantage if they refuse to use AI to speed up their work. Mathematicians did not "lose their jobs" when calculators were invented anyway.

My feelings about AI might best be described as a love-hate relationship. On one hand, I love seeing it advance (the curiosity of witnessing how far mathematics with supercomputers can go). On the other hand, I want it to stop right here (before the internet is dead with full of machine-generated memes).

"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative..." - Dispatch devs 🗿

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inGames

Dutch Lady, American Psycho, and Hatsune Miku

Best way to watch Steins;Gate series

A01–A22 -> E -> F -> G -> A23–A24 -> B -> C -> D
(WL𝛂) (WLβ) (WLΣ)

A - Steins;Gate (2011)
B - Steins;Gate: Egoistic Poriomania (2012)
C - Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)
D - Steins;Gate: Soumei Eichi no Cognitive Computing (2014)
E - Steins;Gate: Open the Missing Link - Divide By Zero (2015)
F - Steins;Gate 0 (2018)
G - Steins;Gate 0: Valentine's of Crystal Polymorphism (2018)

WL𝛂 - World line 'Alpha' (Bad Ending)
WLβ - World line 'Beta' (Bad Ending)
WLΣ - World line 'Steins;Gate' (Good Ending)

LLM has no actual idea what it's "talking" about. It is generating text based on statistical patterns inside of historical data. If a well-known solution to your problem is actually in the data, you will receive it. If it's not, you will think you're receiving a solution when in fact you are being directed to drive off of a cliff.

You, sitting at the bottom of the cliff hanging on for dear life, asking LLM for updated directions: "You're absolutely right! That was a cliff and not a road. Would you like instructions for medical care now? Just tell me and I'll do my best!"

"Vendor lock-in is when someone is essentially forced to continue using a product or service regardless of quality, because switching away from that product or service is not practical." - Cloudflare

IBM (1979)

MCP simplified

Think of MCP (Model Context Protocol) as a "middleman waiter" in a network of restaurants.

Each restaurant (an MCP server) has a menu showing which dishes it can make (tools it provides). When you want to eat a specific dish (ask LLM to do a specific task), our "middleman waiter" (MCP) checks all available dishes in menus (available tools), chooses the right restaurant (MCP server), and brings the dish to you (returns the final result), without you needing to know how the dish is actually cooked (how tool works underneath).

Gokushufudō (2018)

My top anime/manga/manhwa series (in no particular order)

• Death Note (2006)
• Steins;Gate series (2011)
• Parasyte: The Maxim (2014)
• Tokyo Ghoul (2014)
• Psycho-Pass (2012)
• Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (2016)
• Blood Blockade Battlefront (2015)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
• Terror in Resonance (2014)
• Bungo Stray Dogs (2016)
• Noragami (2014)
• Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
• Spy x Family (2022)
• Hyouka (2012)
• Re:Zero (2016)
• Summer Wars (2009)
• ReLIFE (2016)
• Orange (2013)
• Shuuen no Shiori (2012)
• Inuyashiki Last Hero (2017)
• Sweet Home (2017) (webtoon, NOT netflix adaptation)
• Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (2018) (webtoon, NOT netflix adaptation)

Breaking Bad (2008)

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