In short:
Professional Journey:
2014-15 Software Integrator in Automotive Infortainment System (PARROT)
2014 Software Engineer in Image Processing and Robotics (Aldebaran Robotics)
2012-14 Junior Scientist in Social Robotics (ENSTA-Paristech)
2008-12 PhD. Candidat in AI and Social Robotics (IBISC lab, France)
Postdoc (06/2012-03/2014)
Robotics and Computer Visions Lab, ENSTA-Paristech, France
Advisor: Prof Adriana Tapus.
Research topics: Effects of personality-based assistance system in Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Intelligent Vehicle Interaction.
Research Assistant (11/2008-06/2012)
IBISC Laboratory, University of Evry Val d’Essonne, Evry, France
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Philippe HOPPENOT, Dr. Damien EHRHARDT, Dr. Guillaume HUTZLER
Research project:
(1) Emotion modelling for virtual agents and personal robots: improving GRACE – Generic Model of Emotion in order to cover the important aspect of emotional behaviour as to create emotional intelligence for virtual agents and robots.
(2) Retrieval of emotional content in music: working on the proposition of a reduced set of musical descriptors to retrieve emotional content in music; implementing a neural net in Java to learn and predict emotional content for proposed musical descriptors. This works involved also programming tasks in C++ to process MIDI files.
(3) Design of emotional expression for mobile robot: designing emotional expressions for mobile robots without facial expressions, inspired from emotional moves of musicians during their performance. The design has been validated via two experiments with pupils for secondary and high school during the Festival of Science in France in 2010 and 2011. This works involved implementation of Java program to connect to the robot via UDP Protocol and Java graphic interface to use at the experiments.
Teaching Assistant (11/2008-present)
Department of Computer Science, University of Evry Val d’Essonne, France
Advisor: Prof. Hanna KLAUDEL
In charge of conducting lab works in Programming Languages (i.e. Java), Algorithm Complexity, Network Security
Research Intern (03/2008-08/2008)
VALORIA Laboratory, University of South Brittany, Vannes, France
Supervisor: Prof. Dominique DUHAUT
Research project:
Emotion modelling for virtual agents and personal robots: result in the proposition of GRACE – Generic Architecture to Create Emotions in order to cover important aspects of emotional behaviours of virtual agents and robots.
Member of Board of Directors of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (University level) (2001-2004)
University of Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam
In charge of organising social activities for the students at university of Quy Nhon, designing strategies and projects to accompany students (specially students with health and/or financial difficulties) during university years.
Class Representative (2001-2005)
University of Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam
In charge of organizing social and out-door activities, in charge of realising accompaniment tasks to classmates (specially with those who have difficulties to pursuit academic life).
Education:
January 2012 Doctorate in Computer Science (with highest honors), University of Evry Val d'Essonnes
Doctoral thesis: Of emotion and GRACE: Towards a unifying architecture of emotion - Application in the context of listening to music of a dancing robot
Under the supervision of M. Philippe HOPPENOT, M. Damien EHRHARDT, Guillaume HUTZLER
October 2008 Master of Science In Artificial Intelligence And Multimedia, IFI-Hanoi Vietnam and University of La Rochelle, France
Master Thesis (written in French): On the definition and modelling of emotions
Supervisor: M. Dominique DUHAUT
June 2005 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh, Vietnam
Thesis (written in Vietnamese): On the security of SSL/STL Layer
Supervisor: M. Hoa NGUYEN
Awards and Honors
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Interests and Activities:
Playing guitar, walking, programming