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Thanh Tran
Data Science - Computer Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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.
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.