About me
Hello! I am a PhD candidate at School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), Singapore Management University (SMU). My PhD is funded by Vingroup Young Talent Scholarship. At SMU, I have been supervised by Prof. Hady W. Lauw. The central theme of my research is interpretability in recommender systems. Prior to SMU, I was a member of Data Science and Knowledge Technology Laboratory at VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) from Aug 2018 to Jul 2020, working with Prof. Xuan-Hieu Phan and Dr. Thai-Le Luong on intention mining from social media texts. Going back further in time, I obtained my BSc degree (first class honor) in Computer Science from VNU-UET in Jun 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Xuan-Hieu Phan.
News
- 2024-10-24: Paper accepted at WSDM-25, titled “VARIUM: Variational Autoencoder for Multi-Interest Representation with Inter-User Memory”
- 2024-08-13: Invited as PC Member for ICLR-25
- 2024-07-31: Finished internship at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Centre
- 2024-07-07: Invited as PC Member for KDD-25 (Research Track, August Cycle)
- 2024-07-05: SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship AY2024
- 2024-07-01: SCIS-SMU Dean’s List Award AY2024
- 2024-06-23: Invited as PC Member for WSDM-25
- 2024-05-06: Attending ICLR-24 in Vienna, Austria
- 2024-04-22: Joined Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Centre as an intern
- 2024-01-21: Invited as PC Member for KDD-24 (Research Track)
- 2024-01-16: Paper accepted at ICLR-24, titled “Learning Multi-Faceted Prototypical User Interests”
- 2023-10-21: Attending CIKM-23 in Birmingham, UK
- 2023-09-06: Invited as PC Member for PAKDD-24
- 2023-09-02: Journal paper accepted at TIST, titled “Memory Network-Based Interpreter of User Preferences in Content-Aware Recommender Systems”
- 2023-08-05: Paper accepted at CIKM-23, titled “Multi-Representation Variational Autoencoder via Iterative Latent Attention and Implicit Differentiation”
- 2023-01-03: Awarded Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC) Dissertation Research Fellowship 2022
- 2022-08-14: Attending KDD-22 at Washington, D.C.
- 2022-08-11: Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship AY2022
- 2022-05-19: Paper accepted at KDD-22, titled “Aligning Dual Disentangled User Representations from Ratings and Textual Content”
- 2021-11-19: Passed Qualifying Examination (QE)
- 2020-08-17: Started my PhD at Singapore Management University!