- CFE, London, December 2019
- EcoSta, Taiwan, June 2019
- CAPS, Hanoi, April 2019
- GRISP Econometric Workshop, Tokyo, March 2019
- ISBA World meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland 24-28 June 2018 (Invited talk)
- EcoSta, Hong Kong, June 2018 (Invited talk)
- The 2nd Vietnam International Applied Mathematics Conference (VIAMC2017), 15-18 December 2017, HCM city, Vietnam (Plenary invited speaker)
- Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA2017), 10-14 December 2017, Auckland, New Zealand
- Workshop on Statistical Challenges in Astronomy, 7-8 December 2017, UNSW, Sydney (Invited speaker)
- Joint Statistical Meeting 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, US (session organiser and invited speaker)
- Econometrics and Statistics conference, June 2017, HUST, Hong Kong (session organiser and invited speaker)
- Australian Statistical Conference 2016, 5-9 December, Canberra (invited speaker)
- Visiting scholar, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS, Singapore (Oct/Nov 2016)
- Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo conference, 14-19 Aug 2016 Stanford University, US (Invited talk)
- Big Data Analytics Workshop, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 18 Jan 2016
- Statistical Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data Era (IASC-ARC 2015), 17-19 December 2015, NUS, Singapore (Invited talk)
- Conference on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2015), 12-14 December 2015, University of London, London, UK (Invited talk)
- The 5th Vietnam National Conference on Probability and Statistics, 23-25 May 2015, Da Nang, Vietnam (Contributed talk)
- Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Dec 4, 2014, Vietnam. Talk: Statistical Inference with Intractable Likelihood
- University of Queensland, School of Economics seminar, Queensland, July 14, 2014. Invited talk: Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings sampling
- 9th International Chinese Statistical Association Conference, Dec 20-23, 2013, Hong Kong. Invited talk: Variable selection in high dimensional heteroscedastic linear regression
- 8th Vietnamese Mathematical Congress, Aug 10-14, 2013, Nha Trang, Vietnam. Contributed talk: Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings sampling
- Joint Statistical Meetings 2012, July 28 – Aug 2, San Diego, US.
- ISBA 2012, June 25-29, Kyoto, Japan. Recipient of a Young Researcher Travel Award. Poster: Simultaneous variable selection and component selection for regression density estimation with mixtures of heteroscedastic experts.
- MCQMC conference, Feb 13-17, Sydney, Australia.
- Sydney econometrics research group, Sydney, Sept 29, 2011. Invited talk: Some perspectives on model selection
- First Singapore Conference on Statistical Science, Nov 18-19, 2010, Singapore. Contributed talk: The predictive lasso.
- The 21st International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, Oct 6-8, 2010, Canberra, Australia.
- The Machine Learning Summer School, 25 Sep – 10 Oct, 2010, NICTA/ANU, Australia.
- Workshop on Recent Advances on Bayesian Computation, 20 – 22 Sep, 2010, IMS, Singapore.
- The 73 IMS Annual Meeting, Aug 9-13, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden. Contributed talk: Criteria for Model Identification and Optimal Predictive Model Selection.
- The 4th National Conference on Probability and Statistics, 20-22 May, 2010, Vinh City, Vietnam. Contributed talk: On the model selection problem.
- The 5th Mathematics and Physical Sciences Graduate Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 7 – 9 Dec, 2009. Talk: The loss rank criterion for variable selection.
- Workshop on Progress in Stein’s Method, IMS, Singapore, 5 Jan – 6 Feb, 2009.
- 7th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Singapore, 14 – 19 Jul, 2008.
- Workshop on Stein’s Method, IMS, Singapore, 31 Mar – 4 Apr, 2008.
- Internship at the Statistical Machine Learning Program, NICTA & ANU, Australia, 24 Dec 2006 – 24 Mar 2007.
- Cimpa-Imamis School on Financial Information Systems, 22 May – 2 Jun, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.