About
I’m Nick Trinh, a CS senior at Fordham University in NYC and an incoming Software Engineer at Google (Cloud AI & Computing Infrastructure, June 2027).
This site is an open notebook for everything—life in NYC, books, ideas, engineering, and whatever’s on my mind.
Experience
- Google — SWE Intern, Cloud Compute Engine / ACI (Summer 2026, Seattle)
Shipped the NPI Graduation release tracker across 33 CLs (Go, gRPC, Cloud Spanner); placed top-13/75 at Google’s AI-infra hackathon with Answer Bot. - StudyFetch — Full-stack SWE Intern (2025 – 2026, NYC)
Co-built AI video/podcast platform (Next.js, Prisma, Pinecone, Stripe) scaling to 210k+ users; built creator portal. - Fordham Robotics & Computer Vision Lab — Research Assistant (2024 – Present, NYC)
Lead author on adaptive thresholding for Visual Place Recognition under Dr. Damian Lyons (IEEE RoboticCC 2025, RA-L extension). - Rainscales — AI Engineer Intern (Summer 2024, Remote)
YOLOv8/ByteTrack workplace tracking pipeline deployed on NVIDIA Triton with TensorRT.
Publications
- Adaptive Thresholding for VPR using Negative Gaussian Mixture Statistics — IEEE RoboticCC 2025 (arXiv:2512.09071)
- Enhancing Stock Market Forecasting with TikTok Sentiment & Foundation Time-Series Models — INFORMS DMDA 2026
Education
- Fordham University — BS in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics (Expected May 2027)
Faber Full-Tuition Scholarship · Dean’s List · Sigma Xi Associate Member
Distinctions
- Gold Medal: Vietnam Olympic 30/4 Informatics (Competitive Programming)
- 1st Place: Da Nang City Informatics Competition
- 3rd Place: Fordham AI Solutions Challenge 2026 (DegreeWorks Agent)
- 3rd Place ($2,500): UBS Pitch Competition 2024 (LinguaWealth)