About me
Hello! I am a Senior Staff Engineer at the Singapore Search and Recommendation Lab, Huawei. I obtained my PhD from the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2025, advised by Prof. Hady W. Lauw. My PhD studies were fully funded by the Vingroup Young Talent Scholarship. My current research focuses on Large Language Models and Generative Recommendation Systems. Prior to joining SMU, I was a member of the Data Science and Knowledge Technology Laboratory at VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) from August 2018 to July 2020. There, I worked with Prof. Xuan-Hieu Phan and Dr. Thai-Le Luong on intention mining from social media texts. Earlier, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from VNU-UET in June 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Xuan-Hieu Phan.
News
- 2025-09-24: Invited as PC member for ICLR-26
- 2025-07-05: Paper accepted at ACM Multimedia 2025 (ACMMM’2025), titled “Parameter-Efficient Variational AutoEncoder for Multimodal Multi-Interest Recommendation”
- 2025-07-05: Invited as PC member for KDD-26 (Research Track, First Cycle)
- 2025-06-20: Invited as PC member for WSDM-26
- 2025-05-28: Successfully defended my PhD dissertation, titled “Disentangling User Preferences Towards Self-Interpretable Recommender Systems”
- 2025-05-08: Paper accepted at UAI-25, titled “Optimal Transport Alignment of User Preferences from Ratings and Texts”
- 2025-03-17: Invited as PC member for CIKM-25
- 2025-03-10: Attending WSDM 2025 in Hannover, Germany
- 2025-01-12: Invited as PC Member for KDD-25 (Research Track, February Cycle)
- 2024-12-18: Recognized as Excellent Reviewer (top 10% - 20% of reviewers), KDD 2025 Research Track (August Cycle)
- 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!