Based between Saigon and Da Lat, Uyen's research is broadly concerned with Vietnamese futurities, world-building, and the inherited knowledge, and has received support from Fulbright. Her work is interested in troubling terrestrial and ocular ways of knowing in order to consider:

• Geographies of rest, refuge, and care

• Urban ecologies, memories, and re-memories

• Material, mineral, and speculative methods

• Submergence as story, inheritance, form

In the past, her research explored Saigon at the intersection of memory, crumbling buildings, and postwar life. Her undergraduate senior honors thesis, Being With, written amid Covid-19 lockdowns in Vietnam, engaged with café apartments in Saigon and a collaborative form of digital ethnography to explore how memories of the city are simultaneously shaping and being shaped by its Gen Zers.

Explore more of her academic life here.