Giang Son Nguyen

Bio

NTU I’m a PhD student at GLINT Lab, Nanyang Technological University. My research interest is in LLM interpretability (BlackBoxNLP’26).

VinUniversity I was a Research Assistant at VinUniversity, where I worked on robust translation (Interspeech’26a) and speech recognition (LREC’26, Interspeech’26b) for Vietnamese.

Latest Posts

Mar 27, 2026 Into the SAE-verse

Selected Publications

  1. BlackBoxNLP '26
    Recurrence Is Not Enough: Causally Validating Multilingual SAE Translation Features in Gemma 2 and 3
    Giang Son Nguyen, Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen, Wray Buntine, and Dung D. Le
    Started from an observation during the SAE reading session.
    arXiv Code Website
  2. Interspeech '26
    PiDA: Phonetically-Informed Data Augmentation for Robust Vietnamese Speech Translation
    Giang Son Nguyen, Tung X. Nguyen, Hieu Minh Truong, Nhu Vo, Wray Buntine, and Dung D. Le
    In retrospect, I should have named this PhoGA: Phonetically-Guided Augmentation.
    arXiv Website