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they / them
code, capital & couture.
I’m a senior at Dartmouth from Vietnam, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. I work with models of every kind—machine-learning models, financial models, and the runway kind—and I’m building MyFashionSpace, the house this site belongs to.
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In my own lane
First runner-up
SV.STARTUP 2022
Rufus Choate
Scholar
Starring Minh Nguyen · A documentary in six chapters · Filmed in Vietnam, Hanover & Evanston · Inspired by Mom
Now showing Fall 2026
Prologue · Who I am
I’m from Vietnam. I’m non-binary and trans, and I’m gay. I’m also a senior at Dartmouth, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Academically, I love AI and machine learning. Professionally, I love business and trading. Passionately, I love fashion and modeling. And I have a big heart: I love helping people.
I strive to combine all of those into my work.
So most of what I’ve built has a person on the other end of it: the Deaf community in Vietnam, patients waiting for care, elders and children who need someone watching out for them—and now, fashionistas looking for a space of their own.
My motivation is my mom. You’ll meet her in Chapter Six.
Minh Nguyen · Dartmouth ’27
Subject file
Chapter One · Experience, 2021–2025
Three projects, three communities: a sign-language translator, faster access to care, and cameras that call for help.
96% — Of the 308 Deaf people and people with hearing loss I surveyed in Vietnam, 96% said communicating was difficult. So I built a translator.
Scene 01 · Vietnam · 2021–2023
My high-school start-up
A real-time Vietnamese Sign Language translator. I collected and annotated 394 sign videos, tracked hands and body with a MediaPipe pipeline, and trained a DD-Net model that recognizes signs in under a second, at 70.1% accuracy.
First runner-up, SV.STARTUP 2022, Vietnam’s national student start-up competition
Made for the Deaf community in Vietnam
Scene 02 · Hanover, NH · 2024
Dartmouth · FYREE fellow, then E. E. Just summer intern
I cleaned and queried 11,000+ anonymized patient-flow and scheduling records from five Dartmouth-Hitchcock clinics, then built discrete-event simulations in AnyLogic and SimPy to test new scheduling strategies. In simulation, they cut average waits by 25% and raised 10-day patient access from 14–28% to 55%.
Made for patients waiting for care
Scene 03 · Hanoi · 2025
AI Computer Vision Engineer Intern
I worked on a camera-based safety system designed to spot falls—especially for elders and children—and alert firefighters, police, and hospitals. I crawled 10,000+ images across five poses, auto-labeled a 100,000-image dataset (70% less manual labeling), and served a real-time vision-language model on a Jetson Nano with 40% lower latency.
Also: I diagnosed a NAT port-mapping issue between a WebRTC client and NVIDIA Omniverse Isaac Sim running in Docker.
Made for elders, children, and the responders who reach them
3.91
GPA · Rufus Choate Scholar, Dartmouth’s top-5% honor
11%
Base-case upside in the AECOM valuation my Tuck team presented
40%
Lower glass-to-glass latency for real-time vision AI at FPT
55%
10-day patient access in our clinic simulations, up from 14–28%
Chapter Two · Finance, 2025–2026
A valuation at Tuck, then a summer in alternative credit at Magnetar Capital.
My team built a three-statement model and a DCF for AECOM, projecting $22.6B in revenue and $1.1B in EBIT by 2029: a $109.56 base-case share price, about 11% upside, which we presented to executives and faculty. I led the AI and proprietary-software analysis, turning adoption scenarios into the margin, CapEx, working-capital, and free-cash-flow assumptions.
Made for executives and faculty at Tuck
Scene 05 · Evanston, IL · Summer 2026
Alternative Credit & Fixed Income Summer Analyst
I forecast financial statements for high-yield auto manufacturers to test whether each could generate cash, cover its interest, refinance the debt coming due, and stay liquid—then weighed that against default risk and CDS spreads. I presented my recommendation to the firm’s managing partner and senior investment managers: sell five-year CDS protection on two of them.
Selling protection means collecting a regular premium in exchange for covering losses if a company defaults.
I compared near- and long-term demand for HALEU, the fuel most US advanced reactors are designed around, and assessed reactor developers on liquidity, debt, deployment timelines, licensing risk, government support, customer contracts, and dependence on hyperscalers. Mapping the road from licensing to fuel production, I identified centrifuge manufacturing as the bottleneck. My recommendation—asset-based investments in HALEU enrichment facilities, with their cash flows as collateral—was selected over competing AI-power ideas.
Made for Magnetar’s managing partner and senior investment managers
Why nuclear? Read Chapter ThreeChapter Three · What I’m learning
AI runs on data centers, and data centers run on power. That’s why I’ve been following nuclear: firm, clean, and, I think, the next big source of power for data centers.
June 23, 2026 The Department of Energy announces up to $17.5B in conditional loans to help build 10 large nuclear reactors Source: energy.gov
AI is spreading into every industry: LLMs today, vision-language models and robotics next. Hyperscalers are spending billions on the data centers to run it all, and those need an enormous amount of power, around the clock.
Renewables are intermittent, and the 2026 Middle East crisis has left global gas markets tight and volatile. Nuclear runs day and night, without the carbon.
Many next-generation reactor developers are pre-revenue with no credit ratings, burning cash on units targeted for around 2030 to the early 2030s. For now, their cash flow hinges on government support and early commitments from big power buyers.
In June, the DOE announced up to $17.5B in conditional loans to help build 10 large AP1000 reactors: Washington putting its balance sheet behind new nuclear. Amazon, Google, and Meta have signed nuclear deals too, from equity stakes to prepayments.
Many of those deals are staged or early-stage, so the sooner reactors get built, the sooner that money turns into revenue. For the banks and funds behind reactor developers, news like this signals potential mega deals ahead.
Advanced reactors need HALEU: uranium enriched to between 5% and just under 20%. When I mapped the path from licensing to fuel at Magnetar, the choke point was enrichment—how fast the US can manufacture the centrifuges to make HALEU at scale.
What would change my mind: licensing delays, reactor timelines that keep slipping, customer agreements that never turn binding, and enrichment capacity that arrives after the demand does.
Sources: DOE loan announcement · IEA Gas Market Report, Q3 2026 · DOE: What is HALEU?
Chapter Four · MyFashionSpace
Since spring 2026, I’ve been building MyFashionSpace: a glamorous, Y2K-designed home for fashionistas.
At its heart is a social platform where fashionistas make friends, style their own closets with a personal AI stylist, and sell their couture on an auction marketplace. This site is its newest wing: fashion-first financial intelligence, following the headlines, financials, and deals behind beauty, fashion, and modeling—where my love of markets meets my love of fashion.
Make friends.
The social space
Style your closet.
With a personal AI stylist
Sell your couture.
The auction marketplace
Fashion-first financial intelligence
Mood imagery · MyFashionSpace campaign board
Off the clock, I do photoshoots, runway walks, and castings.
Join the early-access listChapter Five · Community
I’m non-binary and gay, so LGBTQ+ advocacy is personal to me.
I love teamwork, leadership, and being a trailblazer.
Chapter Six · Motivation
Knowing that I’ll always have her beside me—that drives me.
My mom is hard-working, ambitious, and so caring. In her twenties, she was the CFO of a tech start-up, before she gave her career up for our family.
The day before my flight back to college, she took me to a closet she had kept tucked away for decades. It was full of her clothes from her own college years in the 2000s. She had great fashion sense. She told me to pick whatever I wanted for college.
I was so emotional. Ever since coming out as non-binary and trans, it has felt ten times harder to navigate life and acceptance back home in Vietnam, where many people still hold traditional, conservative views.
I know I’ll always have her beside me, and I know how much she has sacrificed for me to be who I am today. That’s what drives me—in AI, in finance, and on the runway. Someday, I’m going to take her to places she’s never been, so she never has to save up for a vacation again.
Epilogue · What’s next
My long-term goal is to become a leader in my own lane—whether that’s owning business ventures, becoming a supermodel and fashion mogul, or being a managing director at a big bank. Code, capital, and couture: I don’t plan to choose.
Minh Nguyen they / them
If you’re working on credit, markets, AI, or the business of fashion, I’d love to hear from you.
Based on a true story.
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