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I am a Staff Research Scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Prior to this, I was a research scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe (now NAVER LABS Europe), France. Previously, I was a System Analyst and Software Engineer in Singapore.

I obtained a PhD  in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) from University of Trento** and research center Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

My research interests lie in AI4Code, AI for IT Automation, and NLP topics (e.g. Information Extraction, Semantic Similarity/Relatedness, Textual Entailment, Paraphrasing, Question Answering, Natural Language Interface to Databases, Sentiment Analysis).

My works can be found here: IBM Research, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, DBLP, Research Gate, JUSTIA Patents

Contact: hoangyenan AT yahoo DOT com

**University of Trento is ranked 1st in Italy, 18th in Europe, and 90th worldwide in 2023 for Computational Linguistics. It is also ranked 171st for all CS subjects and 114th worldwide for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in CSRankings, respectively.

News

• [12/2023] I received IBM Special Accomplishment for watsonx Code Assistant (WCA) for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

• [10/2023] We successfully GAed the IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed

• [6/2023] I received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA).

• [12/2022] I received IBM Research Accomplishment for CCA project.

• [11/2022] One paper is accepted at Big Data 2022.

• [9/2022] One paper is accepted at EMNLP 2022.

• [8/2022] One paper is accepted at COLING 2022.

• [4/2022] I received IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Award.

• [11/2021] One paper is accepted at Big Data 2021.

• [7/2021] One paper is accepted at RANLP 2021.

• [5/2021] I received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA).

• [12/2020] I received IBM Research Accomplishment for QUEST project.

• [10/2020] One paper is accepted at COLING 2020.

• [9/2020] One paper is accepted at EMNLP 2020 (Findings).

• [4/2019] One paper is accepted at NLDB 2019.

• [12/2018] One paper is accepted at ACIIDS 2019.

• [20/12/2017] Two papers are accepted at LREC 2018.

• [23/04/2017] One paper on previous work with colleagues at XRCE has been accepted at ICAIL 2017.

• [06/03/2017] I joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, US.

• [13/10/2016] One paper is in the finalist for the Best Long Paper Award at KDIR 2016.

• [30/9/2016] One paper with Xerox has been accepted at COLING 2016.

• [01/9/2016] My second patent with Xerox is approved and gonna be filed.

• [03/8/2016] One paper is accepted for oral presentation at KDIR 2016.

• [19/7/2016] One paper is accepted at AI*IA 2016.

• [18/4/2016] I finished my PhD dissertation defense at the University of Trento, Italy. My dissertation committee consisted of Prof. Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania, US) (Chair), Prof. Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Spain), Prof. Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy), and Dr. Ágnes Sándor (Senior Research Scientist, NAVER LABS Europe, France).

• [05/02/2016] One paper is accepted at Q4ASP - WWW 2016.

• [28/01/2016] My first Invention Disclosure (patent) at Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) has been accepted.

• [27/01/2016] One paper is accepted at LREC 2016.

• [7/8/2015] I got the the Google Grant to participate in the Google NLP PhD Summit 2015, Google Zurich, on 23 - 26 September 2015.

• [3/8/2015] Since beginning of August 2015, I joined Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France as a research scientist.

• [22/6/2015] Two papers are accepted at RANLP 2015.

• [20/4/2015] I got a Student Grant (funded by US National Science Foundation - NSF) to present my works at NAACL 2015.

• [10/2012] I received a full-ride scholarship for my PhD at University of Trento and research center Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). During my PhD, I was working with Octavian Popescu and Carlo Strapparava.

Professional Services

• Regular Program Committee and Regular Reviewer for:

  • Conferences: ARR, ACL, EMNLP,  COLING, NAACL, EACL, iSEC@FDSE, BigDML.

  • Journals: Knowledge-based Systems, Computer Speech and Language, Applied Intelligence.

  • Workshops: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism (NLPJ), SemEval.

• Session Chair: KDIR 2016. 

Honors and Awards

• IBM Special Accomplishment for watsonx Code Assistant (WCA) for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed (2023).

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) (2023).

• IBM Research Accomplishment (2022).

• IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Award (2022).

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) (2021).

• IBM Research Accomplishment (2020).

• Best Long Paper Award finalist at KDIR 2016.

• Google Grant for Google NLP PhD Summit 2015.

• The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Grant for NAACL 2015.

• ICT Doctoral Grant (2012 - 2016) at University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

• High Distinction Master (Most Outstanding) 2011 in Information Technology, James Cook University (Singapore campus).