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title: about me
subtitle: I am not a fast learner, but a deep one
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![Will you date me?]({{site.baseurl}}/img/myface.png){:width="20%" .center-small} 

My name is <NAME> (<NAME> or <NAME>), my friends call me "professor" because... I _look_ like one (fingers cross that I become one someday). These are things that I love:

- Culture (esp. Japanese culture)
- Hiking
- Theories (more like _understanding_ theories)
- Books
- My family and friends
- The sky (esp. in Tokyo)

My CV can be found [here](http://gear.github.io/assets/cv/HoangNT_CV_new.pdf).

### my story

I was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. Growing up I thought that I would become a doctor.
Back then, due to the lack of child-friendly entertainment methods, I had to read
Easten medical books and old physic books translated from Russian. Despite thinking
about medical school all the time, for some 
reason, I enrolled in the physics program for gifted high school students. 
Then later, I studied Electronics and Computer Science Engineering in college.
Now, I am a master student at Tokyo Institute of Technology studing complex
network and theoretical machine learning. I think my journey up until now seems
quite messy, and I am trying to make it even messier.
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layout: page
title: about me
subtitle: I am not a fast learner, but a deep one
---

![Will you date me?]({{site.baseurl}}/img/myface.png){:width="20%" .center-small} 

My name is <NAME> (<NAME> or <NAME>), my friends call me "professor" because... I _look_ like one (I'll become one soon enough). 

My CV can be found [here](http://gear.github.io/assets/cv/HoangNT_CV_new.pdf).

### blog post

I write about my life and what I have learned. Posts by topics:

- [Complex Networks]({{site.baseurl}}/cn/)
- [Distributed Systems]({{site.baseurl}}/distsys/)
- [Machine Learning]({{site.baseurl}}/ml/)
- [Discrete Mathematics]({{site.baseurl}}/dmath/)

### my short story

I was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. Growing up I thought that I would become a doctor.
Back then, due to the lack of child-friendly entertainment methods, I had to read
Easten medical books and old physics books translated from Russian. Back in the days,
Newton and Eistein were my inspiration to study physics. During undergrad, I discovered
the wonderful world of MIT OpenCourseWare, and my breath was taken away by lectures
from <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME>. Today, I am doing my
best to study with the hope that one day I can become a professor that can deliver
kick-ass lectures.

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