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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. I am also the Associated Director of VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC). 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:

Organizing Chair: BUGS Workshop (NeurIPS 2023), AI4E Workshop (CAI 2024), ACML 2024
Editorial Board: ACM AI Letters, Discover Data (Springer)
Area Chair (ML/AI): ICLR (2026), ICML (2025-2026), ICLR (2026), NeurIPS (2024-2025), ACML (2024-2025), AISTATS (2025-2026)
Program Committee (ML/AI): ICLR (2021-2025), NeurIPS (2020-2023), ICML (2020-2024), AAAI (2021-2026), IJCAI (2017-2019)
Program Committee (CV): CVPR (2020-2025), ICCV (2021-2025), ECCV (2020-2024), WACV (2022-2025)
Program Committee (NLP): EMNLP (2023-2025), ACL (2025)
Program Committee (DM/Retrieval/Recsys): KDD (2017-2019), WSDM (2017-2019), WWW (2017-2019)
Workshop Proposal Reviewer (ML/AI): ICML (2024), NeurIPS (2024-2025), ICLR (2025)

Service Awards:

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

Students and Research Assistants

Duy C Hoang

NLP/LLMs

Chinh L Duc

Generative Models

Jason Yang

Trustworthy ML

Phuc M Nguyen

RL/LLM

Quang H Nguyen

Robust ML/ML on ML

Oanh Tran

NLP

Cat Le

Low-resource NLP

Hiep MH Nguyen

Low-resource NLP

Quang MT Nguyen

Low-resource NLP

Thuan Tran

Farming AI

Nam H. Nguyen

Trustworthy ML

Uyen T. Nguyen

Low-resource NLP/Farm2Vets

Vinh H. Pham

Molecule Diffusion Models

Thanh T. Hoang

Farm2Vets

Minh D Nguyen

VinUni RA

NLP/Chem

Hung TQ Le

VinUni RA

Medical AI/Spatial Reasoning

Han Nguyen

VinUni RA

Farming & AI/Biz

Hoang Phan

ML on ML

Chi H. Nguyen

VinUni RA

Efficient Inference

Tuan M Nguyen

PhD Student (VinUni)

Trustworthy ML/FL

Thinh Nguyen

PhD Student (VinUni)

CL/FL

Nghia D Nguyen

PhD Student (UIUC)

Causal ML

Duy A. Nguyen

PhD Student (UIUC)

Uncertainty, Multimodal

Chau Hoai Tran

PhD Student (UIUC)

Efficient Inference

Thu A. Le

PhD Student (VinUni)

Medical AI

Hoang K. Nguyen

MS Student (UIUC)

Mental Health NLP

VinUni Collaborators (sorted alphabetically)

Binh T. Nguyen -- Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity

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

Giang Phi -- Assistant Professor, College of College of Business and Management, VinUniversity

External Collaborators (sorted alphabetically)

Ang Li -- CEO/Founder, Simular AI, USA

Anh Tuan Tran -- Research Scientist, VinAI Research, Vietnam

Anne-Christin Hauschild -- Jun. Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Justus-Liebig University Gießen

Binh Nguyen -- Associate Professor and Head of CS, University of Science, VNU-Ho Chi Minh City

Chan Chee Seng -- Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya

Dat Quoc Nguyen -- Head of NLP, VinAI Research, Vietnam

Dilek Hakkani-Tur -- Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eugene Bagdasaryan -- Assistant Professor, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fan Lai -- Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Heng Ji -- Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jianwen Xie -- Staff Research Scientist, Baidu Research

Kuan-Hao Huang -- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

Minh N. Do -- Thomas and Margaret Huang Endowed Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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-Huong (Helen) Nguyen -- Ivan Racheff Professor of CEE, CEE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 & Computer Science, Tufts University

Former Students and Research Assistants

Hoang M Nguyen -- Research Assistant (Medical AI) -- Next: PhD Student at Saarland University

Long H Le -- Research Assistant (In-context Learning) -- Next: Master Student at University of Stuttgart

Hoang V Pham -- Research Assistant (Trustworthy ML) -- Next: PhD Student at University of Warwick

Quan H Do -- (Uncertainty Estimation) -- Next: PhD Student at Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Nghia P Hoang -- (LLM Apps) -- Next: AI Engineer at FPT

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen -- (NLP/LLM) -- Next: PhD Student at Penn State University

Chau Hoai Tran -- (Efficient Inference) -- Next: PhD Student at UIUC

Nghia D Nguyen -- VinUni Undergrad Research Assistant (Continual Learning) -- Next: PhD Student at UIUC (co-advised)

Lan H Tran -- VinUni Research Assistant (Generative Models) -- Next: Master Student at EPFL

Hoang Phan -- (ML on ML) -- Next: Research Assistant at MAIL-Research