Nghia Duong-Trung

Personal Info

- Dr. rer. nat. Nghia Duong-Trung (Dương Trung Nghĩa)
- Current Employer (full-time): German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Berlin, Germany.
- Current Employer (part-time): IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
- Located in Berlin, Germany.
- Emails:
  - duong-trung /at/ ismll.de (primary, general contact point),
  - nghia_trung.duong /at/ dfki.de (related to research and cooperation at DFKI)
  - nghia.duong-trung /at/ iu.org (related to teaching and thesis supervision at IU)
- Linkedin, ResearchGate, GoogleScholar, Scopus, Github, Xing
- Languages: Vietnamese (native); English (professional); German (B1 TELC).
- download CV (last update 02.02.2024)

Researcher AI with 6+ years of experience specializing in machine learning research and development. University lecturer with 8+ years of experience in teaching, supervision, and academic affairs management. Dual employment at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz ‐ DFKI GmbH) and the IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU Internationalen Hochschule) in Berlin.

62+ publications; 740+ citations; 17 Google h‐index; 14 Scopus h-index; 4 BMBF industrial‐educational projects; 12+ teaching courses; 12 theses supervision.

Work Experience

- 09.2022 - present. Senior Researcher/Project Lead (full-time), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Berlin, Germany.
- 06.2022 - present. Academic Teacher (part-time), IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
- 12.2020 - 08.2022. Machine Learning Scientist / Postdoc, BMBF KIWI biolab project, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
- 05.2019 - 12.2020. Visiting lecturer, University of Greenwich, Can Tho Campus, Vietnam.
- 05.2018 - 12.2020. Visiting lecturer, FPT University, Can Tho Campus, Vietnam.
- 08.2017 - 12.2020. Lecturer, Can Tho University of Technology, Vietnam.
- 03.2017 - 07.2017. Instructor, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
- 04.2011 - 02.2014. Teaching assistant, Can Tho University of Technology, Vietnam.
- 04.2010 - 01.2011. Web Developer, SoftCom GmbH, Schwaigern, Germany.

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Transfer Learning, Time Series Forecasting, Immersive Learning, Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Federated Learning

Networking

- Organization
  - 2024: EAI GOODTECHS2024: 10th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. Brest, France, December 5-7, 2024.
  - 2024: EduRS @ DELFI2024: 2nd Workshop on Recommender Systems. Fulda, Germany, September 9-11, 2024.
- Member
  - 02.2024 - present: young researcher at CATALPA, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
  - 01.2024 - present: Member of the Network of German Competence Centers for Research on Artificial Intelligence (Netzwerk der Deutschen Kompetenzzentren für Forschung zu Künstlicher Intelligenz). BIFOLD, DFKI, MCML, LAMARR, ScaDS.AI, and TUE.AI: together, they are working to strengthen Germany as a top location for AI technologies and to increase the national and international visibility of German AI research.
- Invited Guest
  - 4-5 April 2024. Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2024, Berlin.
- Honorary Remote Lecturer
  - 11.2023 - present. Kien Giang University, Kien Giang province, Vietnam.
- Project Collaborator
  - 09.2022 - present: PICom - Open Laboratory for Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.
    - 16.03.2023. 3rd place, Tech for Sustainability Campaign 2023, in the challenge Swarm Behaviour on the Grid by Siemens.
- Area Editor
  - 01.2022 - present: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INIS)
- Reviewer
  - 06.2019 - present: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA)
  - 2019. Conferences: AIIPCC 2019, IEEE KSE 2019
- Program Committee
  - 2024: EDM2024: Seventeenth International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Atlanta, GA, United States, July 15-19, 2024.
  - 2023: MILeS2023: Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems, September 4, 2023. Aveiro, Portugal.
  - 2023: ISDS2023: The First International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Data Science. Can Tho University, Vietnam.
  - 2020: IEEE NSICT 2020: Hội thảo Quốc gia lần thứ XXIII "Một số vấn đề chọn lọc của Công nghệ thông tin và Truyền thông"
  - 2020: IEEE KSE 2020
  - 2019 - present: PC member. IEEE ACOMPA: International Conference on Advanced Computing and Analytics.
- Session Co-chair:
  - 2021. KIWI-biolab Symposium 2021, Berlin, Germany
  - 2020. IEEE KSE 2020, Can Tho city, Vietnam
- 05.2018. Training of IBSTPI - International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction. 08.05 - 11.05.2018, FPT University, Cantho campus.

Invited Talks

27.03.2023. Speaker to the Opening Day of Annual "Career Week for International Junior Researchers", Technische Universität Berlin. Slides.
12.12.2022. Real-time Pose Estimation via State-of-the-art Computer Vision Models. Consortium MILKI-PSY project meeting, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. Slides. Git.

Teaching

04.2024 - present. Lecture series on Introduction to Computer Science at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
10.2023 - present. Link. Lecture series on Neural Nets and Deep Learning at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
07.2023 - present. Link. Lecture series on Deep Learning at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
01.2023 - present. Link. Lecture series on Data Utilization at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
01.2023 - 03.2023. Link. Lecture series on Project: Data Science Use Case at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
01.2023 - present. Link. Lecture series on Machine Learning at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
10.2022 - present. Link_1. Link_2. Lecture series on Artificial Intelligence at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
07.2022 - present. Link. Lecture series on Data Science at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
11.2021. Link. Lecture series on Transfer Learning at Technische Universität Berlin, Berin, Germany.
09. 2017 - 11.2020. Lecture series on Data Structures and Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing at Can Tho University of Technology, Can Tho City, Vietnam.
2019 - 2020. Lecture series on Programming at the University of Greenwich (Vietnam), Can Tho City, Vietnam.
03.2017 - 07.2017. Tutorial series on Big Data Analytics at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Grants and Awards

- 05.06.2023. Best Full Paper Award, 19th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2023), June 5-8, 2023, Corfu, Greece.
- 16.03.2023. 3rd place, Tech for Sustainability Campaign 2023, in the challenge Swarm Behaviour on the Grid by Siemens.
- 12.2020 - 12.2022. Postdoctoral Researcher by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany.
- 01.2019. Best Presentation Award at the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (ICMLSC) 2019. Da Lat, Vietnam.
- 03.2017 - 07.2017. Teaching Assistant Grant by ISMLL, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
- 03.2014 - 07.2017. Ph.D. Fellowship by ISMLL, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
- 09.2016. ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge Award: Best System of the Bank Card Usage Analysis Challenge. Riva del Garda, Italy.
- 03.2014 - 02.2017. Ph.D. Scholarship by Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam.
- 03.2009 - 09.2010. MSc. Scholarship by Can Tho City, Vietnam.

Certificates

01.2024. IU International University of Applied Sciences: Generative AI for Professors and Academic Lecturers.
- Introduction GPT in Teaching, Master of Prompts, Academic Content Creation, How We Learn, Tutor Bots I, Tutor Bots II, Academic Work.
04.2023. UNSW Sydney: Learning to Teach Online. Link.
02.2022 -.08.2022. Deeplearning.AI: Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization. Link.
- Introduction to Machine Learning in Production. 05.02.2022. Link.
- Machine Learning Data Lifecycle in Production. 02.03.2022. Link.
- Machine Learning Modeling Pipelines in Production. 09.08.2022. Link.
- Deploying Machine Learning Models in Production. 17.08.2022. Link.
12.2021. AWS Academy Graduate - AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundations. Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification. Link.
12.2020. Intercultural Challenges for Visiting Scholars at TU Berlin (LM 13B). Issued by Technische Universität Berlin.

Education

- 12.2020 - 08.2022: Postdoc, BMBF KIWI biolab project, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
- 03.2014 - 07.2017: Ph.D. in Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Lars Schmidt-Thieme, ISMLL, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
- 03.2009 - 02.2011: MSc. in Software Engineering and Management, Heilbronn University, Germany.
- 09.2003 - 04.2008: BSc. in Informatics, Can Tho University, Vietnam.