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. 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: Discover Data (Springer)
  • Area Chair (ML/AI): NeurIPS (2024), ACML (2024), AISTATS (2025)
  • Program Committee (ML/AI): ICLR (2021-2025), NeurIPS (2020-2023), ICML (2020-2024), AAAI (2021-2025), 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)
  • Workshop Proposal Reviewer (ML/AI): ICML (2024), NeurIPS (2024)

Service Awards:

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

Students and Research Assistants

Duy C Hoang

Duy C Hoang

RA

NLP/LLMs

Chinh L Duc

Chinh L Duc

RA

Generative Models

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

Nghia P Hoang

Nghia P Hoang

RA

LLM Apps

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen

RA

NLP/LLM

Quang H Nguyen

Quang H Nguyen

RA

Robust ML/ML on ML

Oanh Tran

Oanh Tran

RA

NLP

Chau Hoai Tran

Chau Hoai Tran

RA

Efficient NLP

Minh D Nguyen

Minh D Nguyen

VinUni RA

NLP/Chem

Hung Thanh Quoc Le

Hung Thanh Quoc Le

VinUni RA

Adversarial ML

Han Nguyen

Han Nguyen

VinUni RA

Farming & AI/Biz

Hoang Phan

Hoang Phan

VinUni RA

ML on ML

Tuan M Nguyen

Tuan M Nguyen

PhD Student (VinUni)

Trustworthy ML/FL

Thinh Nguyen

Thinh Nguyen

PhD Student (VinUni)

CL/FL

Nghia D Nguyen

Nghia D Nguyen

PhD Student (UIUC)

CL

Duy A. Nguyen

Duy A. Nguyen

PhD Student (UIUC)

Uncertainty, Multimodal

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
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
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
Eugene Bagdasaryan -- Assistant Professor, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Heng Ji -- Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jianwen Xie -- Staff Research Scientist, Baidu Research
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
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
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