Work Experience
Education
Awards
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2nd Winner, AutoML competition, Jul 2022
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Best Paper Award, PLOS Computational Biology, Jul 2022
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Selected as a Postdoc-NeT-AI Fellow, DAAD, Germany, Oct 2020
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Young Investigator Training Program Grant, Italy, June 2019
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Travel Grant EEML on Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning, Romania, July 2019
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Vice Chancellor Award for Outstanding Contribution, Deakin University 2017
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Selected as Best Papers for KAIS - ICDM 2017
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Best Poster Award, Bayesian Optimization of Superalloy Design. 4th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering 2017
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Best Paper Runner up Award and Best Poster Award - ACML 2016, Bayesian Nonparametric Multi-label Classification.
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Heidelberg Laurate Forum 2015, Top 200 young scientist around the world to interact with the Laurates in Germany
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First Prize in Student Research Competition 2011, University of Science, Vietnam National University HCM
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Travel Grant - Machine Learning Summer School, Singapore, 2011.
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Lawrence Sting Award and Scholarship Awarded for Vietnamese Outstanding Students, 2010
Invited Talks and Tutorials
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Mar 22. Applied Machine Learning Conference Bayesian Optimization with Categorical and Continuous Variables.
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Nov 21. ACEMS. Invited speaker and panel discussion Tales of the two worlds: Navigating between industry and academia.
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Apr 21. Amazon - Indian Machine Learning. Advanced Bayes Opt for Machine Learning Hyperparameters Tuning.
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Oct 20. ACML 2020 - Tutorial Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
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Jun 20. University of Liverpool, UK. Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
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Jun 20. Oxford-Man Institute 11st Machine Learning Workshop. Controlling quantum device measurement using DRL.
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Jun 20. University of Twente, The Netheland. Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
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Jun 20. University of Glasgow, UK. Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
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Dec 19. VinAI Research, VN. Knowing the what but not the where in Bayesian optimization.
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Nov 19. University of Oxford, Dept of Materials. DRL for controlling quantum device .
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Aug 19. University of Melbourne, Aus. Machine learning for decision making under uncertainty.
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Jun 19. University of Roma, Italy. Bayesian optimization for accelerating hyperparameter tuning.
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May 19. University of Southampton, UK. Machine learning for decision making under uncertainty.
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Apr 19. Oxford-Man Institute on Quantitative Finance. Deep reinforcement learning for marketing .
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Oct 18. Credit AI, Australia. Bayesian optimization for experimental design .
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Dec 17. Deakin-Defense Science Technology Workshop. Bayesian optimization for hyper-parameter tuning.
Grant and Funding
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Google Cloud Platform Education Grant, Aug 2020-2021. $5000 USD
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Young Investigator Training Program Grant, Italy, June 2019. €3000
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NVIDIA, GPU Grant. 2019
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Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub (NQIT). Machine Learning for Quantum
Technologies. 2018-2019. £105,978
Named Researcher.
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Telstra Grant - COE in Big Data and Machine Learning. 2016-2019. $1,600,000 AUD
With PRADA team at Deakin University.
Teaching
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Teaching Assistant. Course: Introduction to Programming. Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011. University of Science - VNU HCMC
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Teaching Assistant.
Course: Advanced Machine Learning. Master Course, Trinity Term 2019. University of Oxford
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Guest Lecturer.
Course: Introduction to Machine Learning. Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011. University of Science - VNU HCMC
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Guest Lecturer.
Course: Advanced Data Science. Undergraduate Course, Spring 2018. Deakin University
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Lecturer.
Course: Data Estimation and Inference. CDT AIMS. Postgraduate Course, Michaelmas Term 2019. University of Oxford
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Senior Demonstrator.
Course: Practical Gaussian Process and Bayesian Optimisation. Postgraduate Course, Hilary Term 2020. University of Oxford
Mentorship
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Julian Berk. PhD at Deakin University. Associate Supervisor. 2017-2019.
Topic: Methods for Improving Bayesian Optimization through Thompson Sampling.
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Samuel Kessler. DPhil at University of Oxford. Informal Supervisor. 2019-2020
Topic: Indian Buffet Neural Networks for Continual Learning.
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Labiba Noorain. Master Thesis. University of College London. Co-supervisor. Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Topic: A machine learning approach for polymer nanoparticles and metal nanoparticles designed in antiviral drug delivery.
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Xinglong Wang. Undergraduate - EUROP summer placement at University of Oxford. Main supervisor. Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Topic: Interpretable Gaussian Process.
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Anshuman Shukla. ML Apprentice Program at Amazon. Main supervisor. Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
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Xinqi Zhu . Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
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Alexander Soen. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
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Yixin Liu. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
Publications
Professional Service
Technical Program Committee
- NeurIPS '17,'19,'20
- ICML '19,'20,'21
- ICLR '19,'20,'21,'22
- AAAI '20,'21,'22
- AISTATS '20,'21,'22
- IJCAI '18,'19,'20
- ACML '18,'19,'20
- ICDM '18,'19,'20
Senior Technical Program Committees / Area Chairs
- AAAI '22
- AISTATS '23, '24
Organizing Committees
- Journal Track Co-chair ACML '23
- AutoML workshop at ICML '24
- Program Co-chairs ACML '24
References