About me

I am Tung Thanh Nguyen, from Vietnam. My Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Thanh Tùng.

Currently, I am a PhD student at Iowa State University, advised by Prof. Tien N. Nguyen. My PhD study is sponsored in part by a fellowship from Vietnam Education Foundation. Before joining Iowa State University in Fall 2007, I was a lecturer at Hanoi University of Education, Vietnam.

I am doing research in Software Engineering and have published more than 30 papers in this field. One of my papers, Graph-based mining of multiple object usage patterns, won ACM SIGSOFT Distingished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE 2009. Another paper, Duplicate Bug Report Detection with a Combination of Information Retrieval and Topic Modeling, won another ACM SIGSOFT Distingished Paper Award at ASE 2012.

Doing research in our group is highly team-oriented. I truly appreciate my advisor and my colleagues for their kind support in my research work as well as in my personal life.

It is also my pleasure to have the opportunity to collaborate and work with many wonderful people: 

• • Dr. Peter Santhanam, Dr. Evelyn Duesterwald, and Dr. Tim Klinger at IBM Watson Research Center

  • Prof. Miryung Kim at The University of Texas at Austin

  • Prof. David Lo at Singapore Management University

  • Prof. Tu Minh Phuong at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam

Research Interest

I am interested in Software Engineering with the main goal is to improve quality and productivity in software development. I am also interested in Data Mining and Machine Learning, especially their applications in Software Engineering.

My research focuses on reused code and programming patterns. The topics of interest include mining programming patterns, detection and management of code clones, prediction, detection, and localization of software defects, detection and resolution of security vulnerabilities, mining and tracking cross-cutting concerns, topic modeling of software engineering data, versioning control of source code, etc.

Publications

I have published more than 30 papers (20 full) at leading journals and conferences, e.g. ICSE*4, FSE*4, ASE*5.

My papers could be found at DBLP, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, or ArnetMiner.

Honors and Awards

1. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2012

   1. Peer Research Award, Iowa State University, 2010

2. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE 2009

3. Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship, 2007

Contact

Tung Thanh Nguyen

PhD Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Iowa State University

Phone: (515) 509-1641

Email: tung@iastate.edu