Alumni

Dr. Lee Ween Jiann

• • PhD (defended in Jun 2024)

  • Dissertation Title: "Incorporating Intrinsic Structures into Entity Matching and Representation Learning"

  • Publications with the group: ICDM-21, TKDE-23, TSAS-24

  • Awards:

    • 2023 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • Since Jul 2024: ST Engineering

Dr. Chia Chong Cher

• • PhD (defended in Nov 2023)

  • Dissertation Title: "Effective and Efficient Semantic Representations and Their Applications"

  • Publications with the group: ACL-18, WI-IAT-22 , DEXA-23 

  • Employment:

    • Since Jan 2024: Senior Research Associate, SMU Centre for Computational Law

Dr. Zhang Ce, Delvin

• • PhD (defended in May 2023)

  • Dissertation Title: "Document Graph Representation Learning"

  • Publications with the group: AAAI-20, ECML/PKDD-21, ECML/PKDD-21, CIKM-21, ICML-22, KDD-22, NeurIPS-22, KDD-23, TKDE-23

  • Awards:

    • 2022 Dean's List of School of Computing and Information Systems

    • 2021 Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC) Dissertation Research Fellowship

    • 2020 & 2022 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • Since Sep 2023: Postdoc, Yale University

Dr. Le Trung Hoang

• • PhD (defended in Nov 2022)

  • Dissertation Title: "Mining Product Textual Data for Recommendation Explanations"

  • Publications with the group: IJCAI-20, WSDM-21, BigData-22, WebConf-23 Tutorial, ECIR-24, EDBT-25

  • Awards:

    • IJCAI-20 Distinguished Paper Award

    • 2020 Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC) Dissertation Research Fellowship

    • 2020 & 2021 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • Since Mar 2023: Research Scientist, Preferred.AI, Singapore

Dr. Truong Quoc Tuan

• • PhD (defended in Feb 2022)

  • Dissertation Title: "Modeling Sentiments and Preferences from Multi-Modal Data"

  • Publications with the group: MM-17, AAAI-19, WebConf-19, JMLR-20, MM-20, WSDM-21, ECIR-21, Internet Computing-21, Machine Learning-21, RecSys-21 Tutorial, TheWebConf-22, TheWebConf-23 Tutorial, WSDM-23. TheWebConf-24 Demo

  • Awards:

    • 2021 Dean's List of School of Computing and Information Systems

    • 2019 & 2020 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • Since Jul 2022: Applied Scientist at Amazon

Dr. Aghiles Salah

• • Research Scientist (Jun 2017 to Jan 2021)

  • Publications with the group: IJCAI-18, UAI-18, JMLR-20, WSDM-21, Internet Computing-21, RecSys-21, RecSys-21 Tutorial

  • Employment:

    • Since Jan 2021: Applied Research Scientist, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Paris, France

Dr. Le Duy Dung, Andrew

• • PhD (defended in Sep 2019), Research Scientist (till Jan 2021)

  • Dissertation title: "Preference Learning and Similarity Learning Perspectives on Personalized Recommendation"

  • Publications with the group: SDM-16, CIKM-17, CIKM-18, IJCAI-19, AAAI-20, JAIR-21, WSDM-22

  • Awards:

    • 2018 & 2019 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

    • 2018 & 2019 SMU PhD Student Life Award

  • Employment:

    • Since Aug 2021: Assistant Professor in Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam

    • Jun - Jul 2021: AI Scientist, FPT AI Lab in Hanoi, Vietnam

    • Jan - May 2021: Senior Data Scientist in Ads and Personalization Team, Grab Holdings Inc., Singapore

 Dr. Le Duc Trong

• • PhD (defended in Apr 2019)

  • Dissertation title: "Modeling Sequential and Basket-Oriented Associations for Top-K Recommendation"

  • Publications with the group: ECMLPKDD-16, IJCAI-17, IJCAI-18, IJCAI-19

  • Employment:

    • Since Aug 2019: Lecturer, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Dr. Maksim Tkachenko

• • PhD (defended in Nov 2018)

  • Dissertation title: "Comparison Mining from Text"

  • Publications with the group: CIKM-14, ACL-15, CIKM-16, TKDE-17, ACL-18, AAAI-19, ICDM-21 (short), WI-IAT-22, DEXA-23, TKDE-23

  • Awards: 2017 & 2018 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • From Sep 2022 onwards: Research Scientist at Rakuten Institute of Technology, Singapore

    • May 2021 to Aug 2022: Data Science & Operations Research Advisor at FedEx Asia Pacific, Singapore

    • Dec 2018 - May 2021: Research Scientist, Preferred.AI, Singapore

 Dr. Do Ha Loc

• • PhD (defended in Jun 2017)

  • Dissertation title: "Mining Diverse Consumer Preferences for Bundling and Recommendation"

  • Publications with the group: WWW-14, PVLDB-15, TOIS-16

  • Internship: Carnegie Mellon University

  • Employment:

    • Since 2018: Algorithm Engineer, Alibaba, Hangzhou, China

    • 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Hong Kong

Nguyen Tiep Trong

• • MPhil (defended in May 2017)

  • Dissertation title: "Community-Based Collaborative Learning for Personalized Recommendation"

  • Publications with the group: CIKM-14 (short), RecSys-16 (full), CIKM-17 (short)

  • Employment:

    • Since Mar 2020: AI Engineer with Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A²I²), Australia

    • Sep 2018 - Mar 2020: Data Scientist, Shopee, Singapore

    • Jul 2017 -  Aug 2018: Machine Learning Engineer, ReFUEL4, Singapore

 Dr. Le Van Minh Tuan

• • PhD (defended in May 2017)

  • Dissertation title: "Probabilistic Models for Semantic Visualization and Its Applications"

  • Publications with the group: AAAI-14, KDD-14, ICDM-14, JAIR-16, IJCAI-16, IJCAI-17, CIKM-17 (demo)

  • Awards:

    • AAAI-14 Outstanding Honorable Mention

    • JAIR-16 Conference Award Track

    • 2014 & 2016 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellow

  • Employment:

    • Since Aug 2019: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA

    • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oakland University, USA

    • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, USA