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Thanh Tran

Data Science - Computer Science Department

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

tdtran (at) wpi.edu

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My most favorite sayings (inspired by my lovely wife):

"Impossible = I m possible" and

"Your success will speak for itself"

ABOUT:

I am studying PhD program and working as a Research Assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. My research areas include: recommendation systems with deep learning, and NLP applications.

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RECENT NEWS:

    • Aug 31, 2020 Invited to serve as program committee of AAAI 2021.

    • Aug 19, 2020 My project "hyper-parameter self-tuning optimization" won best research presentation at Yahoo Summer Research day for interns!

    • July 17 , 2020 My recommendation paper got accepted at CIKM 2020 as a full research paper.

    • May 08, 2020 Awarded WPI Academic Excellence Award.

    • Mar 24, 2019 Got WPI award for outstanding GRIE research poster ($250).

    • Oct 03, 2019 Two papers got accepted at Yahoo TechPulse for oral presentations.

    • May 22, 2019 Start my research intern with Yahoo! Research team in New York.

    • May 11, 2019 Got SIGIR travel grant to SIGIR 2019 ($1,000). Thanks SIGIR.

    • May 06, 2019 Finish my dissertation proposal. Great milestone!

    • Apr 17, 2019 Present SDMR paper at the 17th Annual Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University.

    • Apr 14, 2019 My recommendation paper got accepted at SIGIR'19 as a full paper (research track).

    • Apr 03, 2019 Guest Lecturer at WPI.

    • Mar 29, 2019 Got a TheWebConf scholarship ($1,000) to attend TheWebConf 2019. Thanks WWW.

    • Mar 19, 2019 Present a poster of SDMR model at the 50th Anniversary of Computer Science at WPI.

    • Jan 21, 2019 My recommendation paper got accepted at WWW 2019 as a full paper (research track).

    • Oct 01, 2018 Got a SIGIR and WPI travel grant to attend CIKM 2018. Thanks SIGIR and WPI ($2,000).

    • Aug 06, 2018 My recommendation paper got accepted at CIKM '18 as a full paper.

    • May 09, 2018 Passed PhD qualifying exam at WPI.

    • Apr 25, 2018 Presented a poster of RME recommendation model at GRIE WPI.

    • Oct 12, 2017 One paper w/ Nguyen and Kyumin got accepted at IEEE Big Data '17 as a full paper.

    • Aug 23, 2017 Start studying at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for PhD. program in Data Science.