Faculty

Khoa D Doan

Khoa D Doan [CV ]

Assistant Professor

Khoa D Doan is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at VinUniversity, Vietnam. Previously, he was a Researcher in the Cognitive Computing Lab at Baidu Research working with Dr. Ping Li on generative modeling and its applications in Information Retrieval and AI Security. He was a member of Prof. Chandan K. Reddy’s lab at VT and the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics since 2016. From May 2019 to Feb 2020, he was at Criteo AI Lab in Palo Alto, CA, where he worked with Dr. Sathiya Keerthi Selvaraj and Dr. Fengjiao Wang. Before that, he was a Faculty Research Associate of Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at UMD and also had a joint appointment at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he worked on high-performance and distributed system research. Khoa D Doan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park.

Professional Services:

  • Program Chair: BUGS Workshop (NeurIPS 2023)
  • Editorial Board: Discover Data (Springer)
  • Area Chair (ML/AI): NeurIPS (2024)
  • Program Committee (ML/AI): ICLR (2021-2024), NeurIPS (2020-2023), ICML (2020-2023), AAAI (2021-2024), IJCAI (2017-2019)
  • Program Committee (CV): CVPR (2020-2024), ICCV (2021-2023), ECCV (2020-2024), WACV (2022-2023)
  • Program Committee (NLP): EMNLP (2023)
  • Program Committee (DM/Retrieval/Recsys): KDD (2017-2019), WSDM (2017-2019), WWW (2017-2019)

Service Awards:

  • 2022: NeurIPS (Top Reviewer)
  • 2021: CVPR (Outstanding Reviewer)

Students and Research Assistants

Duy C Hoang

Duy C Hoang

RA

NLP/LLMs

Quang H Nguyen

Quang H Nguyen

RA

Robust ML/ML on ML

Chinh L Duc

Chinh L Duc

RA

Generative AI

Jason Yang

Jason Yang

RA

Trustworthy ML

Quan H Do

Quan H Do

RA

Uncertainty Estimation

Phuc M Nguyen

Phuc M Nguyen

RA

RL/LLM

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen

RA

NLP/LLM

Tuan M Nguyen

Tuan M Nguyen

Ph.D. Student

Trustworthy ML

Lan H Tran

Lan H Tran

UROP RA

Generative AI

Minh D Nguyen

Minh D Nguyen

UROP RA

NLP

Nghia D Nguyen

Nghia D Nguyen

UROP RA

Continual Learning

Hoang Phan

Hoang Phan

UROP RA

ML on ML

Hung Le Thanh Quoc

Hung Le Thanh Quoc

UROP RA

NLP/LLM

VinUni Collaborators (sorted alphabetically)

Kok-seng Wong -- Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity
Nidal Kamel -- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity

External Collaborators (sorted alphabetically)

Ang Li -- Independent Researcher, Stealth Startup
Anh Tuan Tran -- Research Scientist, VinAI Research, Vietnam
Dat Quoc Nguyen -- Head of NLP, VinAI Research, Vietnam
Eugene Bagdasaryan -- Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell Tech
Jianwen Xie -- Staff Research Scientist, Baidu Research
Minlong Peng -- Research Scientist, Cognitive Computing Lab, Baidu Research
Nguyen-Tang Thanh -- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Nitesh Chawla -- Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame/Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society
Peng Yang -- Machine Learning Engineer, Meta
Ping Li -- Distinguished Engineer in Machine Learning, Ads, Search, Privacy, Recommendation, Statistics, LinkedIn Corporation
Sarkhan Badirli -- ML Research Scientist, Eli Lilly
Saurav Manchanda -- Research Scientist, Instacart
Shulong Tan -- Staff Research Scientist, Baidu Research
Thanh-Tung Hoang -- Research Scientist, FPT, Vietnam
The-Anh Ta -- Postdoc, CSIRO's Data61, Australia
Tung Pham -- Research Scientist, VinAI Research, Vietnam
Viet-Anh Nguyen -- Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wejie Zhao -- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Yingjie Lao -- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University

Former Students and Research Assistants

Hoang M Nguyen -- Research Assistant (Medical AI) -- Next: PhD Student at Saarland University
Hoang V Pham -- Research Assistant (Trustworthy ML) -- Next: To Be Announced
Nghia D Nguyen -- VinUni Undergrad Research Assistant (Continual Learning) -- Next: PhD Student at UIUC (co-advised)
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