Vu Truong Giang
Zang Vu · Student Researcher · Cognitive AI & Systems Engineering
Research profile
Informatics-specialized student researching autonomous digital entities and computational models of cognition, with an emphasis on persistent identity, simulated affect, social behavior, and long-term agency. Also develops security tooling and systems software.
Education
Specialization: Informatics · Ninh Binh, Vietnam
Mathematics enrichment program · Mathematics competition team member throughout four academic years
Research & engineering projects
Research prototype exploring a persistent, autonomous digital entity with continuity of identity, self-directed goals and experience-driven behavior.
Python cognitive kernel: perception, episodic/autobiographical memory, belief/world/self models, appraisal, deliberation and bounded autonomy. Research into consciousness-like behavior, simulated affect, relationships and Theory of Mind.
Active engineering on an agent-assisted black-box web/API security research framework, integrating MCP-based tools, remote bridges, scoped execution and isolated sandboxes.
Early-stage exploration of peer-to-peer networking and lightweight coordination across heterogeneous edge and compute nodes.
Performance-oriented Minecraft client/runtime systems, including Forge integration, rendering, input and networking infrastructure, and modular architecture.
Honors & distinctions
Annual provincial Informatics competition that also selects the provincial team for the national VOI contest.
Team distinction at the ICPC Vietnam National Programming Contest, 8–9 November 2025.
Annual provincial Informatics competition that also selects the provincial team for the national VOI contest.
Le Hong Phong Secondary School.
Le Hong Phong Secondary School.
Awarded in March 2022 while attending Le Hong Phong Secondary School.
Technical background
Selected open-source work
Open WebUI · 9Router (Gemini-to-OpenAI response handling) · high-quality 4,000-sample Vietnamese teen/Gen Z synthetic dialogue corpus.