Tuan-Anh Hoang
I am a lecturer at the RMIT Vietnam University. Prior, I was a lecturer at FPT University, a scientist lead at VNTravel JSC, a postdoctoral researcher at L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hanover, and a research fellow in Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University.
Research Interest
Text mining
Topic, sentiment, and viewpoint analysis
Argument mining and entailment inference
Deep generative models
Network and social media analysis
User and community profiling
Event tracking and trend analysis
Toxic content detection
Education
PhD in Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 2015
Master in Computer Science, Hanoi University of Science, 2009
Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Hanoi University of Science, 2006
Selected Publications
Thanh-Nam Doan, Tuan-Anh Hoang; Benchmarking Neural Topic Models: An Empirical Study; Findings of the ACL; 2021
Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Tuan-Anh Hoang; DeepHate: Hate Speech Detection via Multi-Faceted Text Representations. 12th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci20, Southampton, UK, July 2020
Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Discovering Hidden Topical Hubs and Authorities Across Multiple Online Social Networks; to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Thi-Huyen Nguyen, Tuan-Anh Hoang, Wolfgang Nejdl; Efficient Summarizing of Evolving Events from Twitter Streams; 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM19, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2019
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Khoi Duy Vo, Wolfgang Nejdl; W2E: A Worldwide-Event Benchmark Dataset For Topic Detection and Tracking; to appear in The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), Turin, Italy, October 2018 [dataset]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Highly Efficient Algorithm for Mining Overlapping Clusters from Weighted Signed Networks; The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, November 2017
Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; On Analyzing User Topic-Specific Platform Preferences across Multiple Social Media Sites; The 26th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2017, Perth, Australia, April 2017 [link]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Modeling Topics and Behaviors of Microbloggers: An Integrated Approach; ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Volume 8, Issue 3, April 2017 [link]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Tracking virality and Susceptibility in Social Media; The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, USA, October 2016 [link]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Microblogging Content Propagation Modeling Using Topic-specific Behavioral Factors; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Volume 28, Issue 9, September 2016 [pdf]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, William W. Cohen, Ee-Peng Lim; On Modeling Community Behaviors and Sentiments in Microblogging; 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM14, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2014 [pdf]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Retweeting: An Act of Viral Users, Susceptible Users, or Viral Topics?; 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM13, Austin, Texas, USA, May 2013 [pdf]
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim; Virality and Susceptibility in Information Diffusions; 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2012, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012 [pdf]
Awards
Best reviewer award, AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media 2020
Travel award, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2015
Travel award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014
Postgraduate presidential fellowship for the best PhD students, Singapore Management University, 2013
Travel award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2013
Travel award, AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2012
Postgraduate scholarship, Singapore Management University, 2011 - 2015
Work Experience
Sep, 2016 - Aug 2020: Postdoctoral researcher, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hanover
Leading research projects on text, network, and social media mining
Supervising postgraduate students in data mining research
Acquiring research grants
Mar, 2019 - Jul 2019: Postdoctoral researcher, Gesis Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
Provisioning research projects on social media mining
Supervising postgraduate students in information extraction research
Jan, 2016 - Aug, 2016: Research Fellow, Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University
Conducting research projects on community detection on large networks
May, 2013 - Aug, 2013: Research internship student, Yahoo Research Lab, Barcelona
Conducting research on trend analysis on social media, news, and search engines
Aug, 2012 - May, 2013: Exchange PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
Conducting research on profiling of communities in social media
Jan, 2011 - Dec, 2015: PhD student, Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University
Conducting research projects on analyzing user behavior in online social networks
Sep, 2010 - Dec, 2010: Research engineer, Singapore Management University
Investigating and implementing methods for ranking and clustering on social networks
Sep, 2006 - Aug, 2010: Lecturer, VNU University of Science
Giving lectures in fundamental subjects of Computer Science
Projects
Oct, 2020 - Oct, 2023: Developing a system to support fake news detection in online social networks, supported by VinIF, co-PI
Sep, 2019 - Aug, 2020: ROXANNE: Realtime network, text, and speaker analytic for combating organized crime, supported by EU Committee, Workpackage leader
Sep, 2019 - Aug, 2020: Mirror: Migration-related risks caused by misconception of opportunities and requirement, supported by EU Committee, Key member
Sep 2016 - Feb, 2019: Alexandria: Web mining at very large scale, supported by EU Committee, Workpackage leader
Sep 2016 - Feb, 2019: QualiMaster: configurable real-time data processing infrastructure mastering autonomous quality adaptation, supported by EU Committee, Workpackage leader
Activities
Conference PC member
ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2021
ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2019, 2020
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 2019, 2020
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
ACM International Conference on Web Science (WebSci): 2020
AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM): 2013 - 2021
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo): 2013, 2018, 2019
Journal review
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST),
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC)
Neurocomputing