About me

Hi, I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon AI - Natural Language Undersanding, working on contextual NLU. My team is based in Cambridge, MA, USA. I have spent one year in Amazon Alexa Speech working on Spoken Language Understanding and Speech Recognition. Before joining Amazon, I earned my PhD. at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA, and B.Eng in Computer Science from HUST, Hanoi, Vietnam. During my PhD, I worked on recommendation systems, and NLP applications.

Latest news

• 01/25/2022 - 1 paper got accepted at WSDM Workshop 2022.
• 01/21/2022 - 1 paper got accepted at ICASSP 2022.
• 11/21/2021 - 1 paper got accepted at AAAI IAAI track 2022.
• 09/28/2020 - Invited to serve as program committee of TheWebConf (or WWW) 2022.
• 09/2021 - 1 paper got accepted at ASRU.
• 08/2021 - 3 papers ( with 1 oral paper) got accepted at AMLC.
• 01/13/2021 - 1 paper got accepted at Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• 09/25/2020 - 3 papers got accepted at Yahoo TechPulse 2020.
• 09/15/2020 - 1 paper got accepted at EMNLP 2020 as a full paper.
• 08/31/2020 - Invited to serve as program committee of AAAI 2021.
• 08/19/2020 - My project “hyper-parameter self-tuning optimization” won best research presentation at Yahoo Summer Research day for interns!
• 07/17/2020 - 1 paper got accepted at CIKM 2020 as a full research paper.
• 05/08/2020 - Awarded WPI Academic Excellence Award.
• 03/24/2019 - Got WPI award for outstanding GRIE research poster ($250).
• 10/03/2019 - 2 papers got accepted at Yahoo TechPulse for oral presentations.
• 05/11/2019 - Got SIGIR travel grant to SIGIR 2019 ($1,000).
• 04/14/2019 - 1 paper got accepted at SIGIR’19 as a full paper (research track).
• 03/29/2019 - Got a TheWebConf scholarship ($1,000) to attend TheWebConf 2019.
• 01/21/2019 - 1 paper got accepted at WWW 2019 as a full paper (research track).
• 10/01/2018 - Got a SIGIR and WPI travel grant to attend CIKM 2018 ($2,000).
• 08/06/2018 - 1 paper got accepted at CIKM ‘18 as a full research paper.
• 10/12/2017 - 1 paper got accepted at IEEE Big Data ‘17 as a full paper.
• 08/23/2017 - Start my PhD. program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.