Ciao! I’m Pham Cong Thuong (you can call me Elio) — welcome to my little corner of the internet 👋
I’m a robotics software engineer and a long-time machine learning enthusiast, currently based in Genoa, Italy. Most of my day-to-day work revolves around vision systems for humanoid robots — playing with event cameras, RGB cameras, and LiDAR, and trying to make machines see the world a bit more like we do.
Lately, I’ve found myself increasingly obsessed with a particular three-pound object that somehow produces thoughts, memories, and curiosity: the brain 🧠. I’ve been binge-watching The Brain on PBS and reading David Eagleman’s books (Brain, Livewired), and they’ve completely reshaped how I think about intelligence. With neuroscience, AI, and computational science all colliding, it really feels like we’re standing at the edge of understanding something extraordinary.
This blog is a place where I share thoughts, projects, notes, and curiosities along that journey.
100 Things I Want to Do Before I Die
Because life shouldn’t only be about code and papers 🙂
- Travel abroad with my family
- Read 100 books
- Visit SpaceX office
- Become first author of a paper at a top-tier conference (co-authored at ICCV 2025)
- See the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle ✅
- Have a dog 🐕
- Learn German
- Learn to swim ✅
- Start a music band (lead guitar 🎸)
- Practice meditation at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Thailand
- Write my own book
- Walk the Camino de Santiago ✅
- Watch an Arsenal match at the Emirates Stadium ⚽
- Fall in love (again)
- Learn Italian (in progress 🇮🇹)
- Run a full marathon 🏃
- Build my own tech product 👨🔧
- Buy/Build my own home 🏡
- Become a father 👶
Got suggestions? I’m always adding to the list.
