Experiences & More

Experiences

• • Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ 08/2018 - 05/2023

    • Cooperate with Qualcomm to create personalized, quantized, and privacy-preserving federated learning mechanisms for mobile devices

    • Cooperate with NSF, University of Oregon, and Adobe to prove theories, implement, and conduct experiments for Trustworthiness in Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python

    • Financed by Wells Fargo to create a drug abuse ontology and a financial ontology using Protege  

  • Machine Learning Research Intern, Adobe, CA, 01/2020 - 01/2021

    • Explored the research frontiers in applying state of art deep learning and AI methods in Document Understanding and Intelligent Document Agent  

    • Investigated the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to inventions/products   

    • Built rapid research experiments and proof-of-concepts and participate in  patent applications

  • Qualcomm Inc.,  SD 02/2020 - 05/2023

    • Collaborated in Project: Detecting Human Behaviors from Smartphones using Federated Machine Learning in the Wild 

    • Built real-world federated machine learning on mobile devices with  novel privacy-preserving mechanisms and diverse deep learning models 

    • Developed adaptive quantization  on different model architectures  for federated learning  

  • Research Assistant, Oregon State University, OR 09/2015 - 06/2018

    • Collaborated with NSF and University of Texas to generate a Symmetric Multiple instance learning framework for histopathological image analysis using Matlab for reducing manual annotation

    • Cooperated with NSF and Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology to develop a Convolutive-based matrix decomposition framework and conduct experiments in plant transcripts using Matlab

    • Developed a forward-backward dynamic programming using Matlab for efficient model learning

  • Research Assistant, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore 06/2013 - 01/2014

    • Simulated and conducted experiments about the effects of thermal, mechanical, and material changes on wafer bonding in 3D IC using Comsol simulation

  • Research Assistant, Danag University of Technology, Vietnam 09/2010 - 08/2015

    • Developed machine learning techniques, i.e., Hidden Markov and Gaussian mixture model, for a surveillance system using Matlab to detect falling actions and then make alarms for the elderly

    • Designed digital filters using Matlab and analog filters in a Wireless ECK monitor system

• Internship, Danang International Airport, Vietnam, 08/2012 - 01/2013 

Awards and Honors

• IEEE BigData 2022 student travel award to attend the IEEE BigData 2022 conference, Japan 12/2022 

• NSF travel award to NSF CBL Semiannual Meeting in Gainesville, FL 10/2019

• Six-month research scholarship at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 06/2013 - 01/2014

• 3rd prize (Nation-level round) and 2nd prize (Region-level round) at Vietnam Universities and Texas Instruments Microcontroller Design Contest 12/2012

• Sunflower Mission scholarship from Texas Instruments company, USA 12/2012

• Scholarships from Takemoto Denki and Ikeshita Japan companies for Outstanding DUT students 12/2010

Recent Talks

• • Trustworthiness in Machine Learning. Invited talk at Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar, 12/2022. [Slides]

  • Trustworthiness in Machine Learning from Privacy Perspectives. Invited talk at Kent State University, OH, USA,11/2022. [Slides]

Services

• Conference and Journal Reviewer: AAAI 2022, ICLR 2022, IEEE JDSA 2022, IEEE JOCO 2022, WWW 2022,  BigData 2021,  ICML 2021, NeurIPS 2021, SIGIR 2021,  ICMLA 2020, ICKM 2019, JBHI 2018, MLSP 2017

• Publication Chair of Trustworthy Federated Machine Learning Workshop, ICDM, 2022

• Research member of NSF Center for Big Learning, 09/2018 - Present

  • Social Activities: Organization member of The 2022 Annual Conference Vietnamese Scientists and Engineers Network in the U.S, VEF 2.0, August 19-21, San Diego, CA, 2022