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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:

Conference Organizing Committee: NeurIPS 2026 (Workshop Chair), ACML 2024 (Workshop Chair)
Workshop/Challenge Organizer: TRIDENT Challenge (ACM MM’26), DIG-BUGS Workshop (ICML 2025), BUGS Workshop (NeurIPS 2023), AI4E Workshop (CAI 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), AAAI (2027)
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

Ngoc PL Phan -- RA

Low-resource/Cultural NLP, LLM Reviews

Hoang Phan -- RA

Mechanistic Interp, RL/LLMs

Nam H Nguyen -- RA

AI Security

Vinh H Pham -- RA

Diffusion Model Efficiency

Minh D Nguyen -- VinUni RA

AI for Science

Hung TQ Le -- VinUni RA

Medical AI, Watermarking, VLMs

Chi H Nguyen -- VinUni RA

Efficient Inference

Tuan M Nguyen -- PhD Student (VinUni, Co-advised with Kok-seng Wong)

Trustworthy ML/FL

Thinh Nguyen -- PhD Student (VinUni, Co-advised with Kok-seng Wong)

Continual Learning in FL

Nghia D Nguyen -- PhD Student (UIUC)

Causal ML

Oanh Tran -- MS Student (VinUni)

VLMs

Lam H Nguyen -- MS Student (VinUni)

Medical AI

Hiep HM Nguyen -- MS Student (VinUni)

Speech Models

Viet D Trong -- MS Student (VinUni)

LLMs

Minh L Trong -- MS Student (VinUni)

VLMs

Tuan T Nguyen -- MS Student (VinUni)

Diffusion LLMs

Duy A Nguyen -- PhD Student (UIUC, Co-advised with Minh N. Do)

Uncertainty, Multimodal

Chau H Tran -- PhD Student (UIUC, Co-advised with Fan Lai)

Efficient Inference

Thu A Le -- PhD Student (VinUni)

Medical AI, Weak Supervision

Hoang K Nguyen -- PhD Student (UIUC, Co-advised with Dilek Hakkani-Tur)

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

Truong Nguyen Xuan Quynh -- Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity

Huynh Thanh Trung -- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science, 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

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

Duy H. M. Nguyen -- Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher, University of Stuttgart and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

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

Phi Le Nguyen -- Associate Professor and Director, Institute for AI Innovation and Societal Impact (AI4LIFE), Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Ping Li -- Distinguished Engineer in Machine Learning, Ads, Search, Privacy, Recommendation, Statistics, LinkedIn Corporation

Rui Zhang -- Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Penn State University

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

Duy C Hoang -- (NLP/LLMs) -- Next: Master Student (TBA)

Chinh L Duc -- (Generative Models) -- Next: ML Engineer

Jason Yang -- (Trustworthy ML) -- Next: Research/AI Scientist at YTL

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

Phuc M Nguyen -- (RL/LLM) -- Next: PhD Student at University of Notre Dame

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

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

Quang H Nguyen -- (Robust ML/ML on ML) -- Next: PhD Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chau H 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 K Nguyen -- (Mental Health NLP) -- Next: PhD Student at UIUC