Welcome to Cuong Pham's personal web
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT) and a Research Scientist at VinAI Research. I am also a Vice Dean of Information Technology faculty and the Director of NAVER AI Research Lab., PTIT. Previously, I was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Philips Research, High-Tech campus Eindhoven, the Netherlands; a Research Associate at Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK; a Research Assistant at Jornada Experimental Range, the United State Department of Agriculture, USA; and a Teaching Assistant at PTIT. My research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Vision, Human Activity Recognition, Deep Learning, Deep Generative models and Pervasive Healthcare.
Email: cuongpham.ptit AT gmail.com
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK [thesis "Human Activity Recognition for Pervasive Interaction", supervised by Prof. Patrick Olivier and Prof. Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Institute of Technology)]
M.S. in Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA [thesis "Extending Graphplan to Handle Resources", advised by Professor Tran Cao Son]
B.S. in Computer Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
News
2 July 2024. Our paper " SwiftBrush v2: MakeYour One Step Diffusion Better Than Its Teacher" has been accepted to ECCV 2024, Milan, Italy.
26 April 2024. Our paper "Active Learning Framework for Incomplete Networks" by Khong Tung, Cong Tran, and Cuong Pham has been accepted to the 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2024, Barcelona, Spain.
27 Feb. 2024. 3 papers: "Blur2Blur: Blur Conversion for Unsupervised Image Deblurring on Unknown Domains"; "EFHQ: Multi-purpose ExtremePose-Face-HQ dataset"; and "Open3dis: Open-vocabulary 3d instance segmentation with 2d mask guidance" have been accepted to CVPR 2024, Seattle, USA.
9 Dec. 2023, our paper "Count What You Want: Exemplar Identification and Few-shot Counting of Human Actions in the Wild " has been accepted to AAAI-24
27 Feb. 2023. our paper "HyperCUT: Video Sequence from a Single Blurry Image using Unsupervised Ordering" has been accepted to CVPR 2023, Vancouver, Canada.
14 Sep. 2022. our paper "QC-StyleGAN - Quality Controllable Image Generation and Manipulation" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2022, New Orleans, USA.
Research Projects
1. Principal Investigator, Automated Monitoring Respiratory Symptoms Using AI and the Internet of Things, national research project grant no. DTDLCN-16/18, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology 2018-2021
2. Co-Principal Investigator, Controllable Silicon-Photonic Network-on-Chip via AI, grant no. VinIF.2019.DA12, funded by the Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VinIF) 2019-2021
3. Principal Investigator, Real-Time Fall Detection Using Heterogeneous Sensors, grant no. DT.021/18, funded by the Ministry of Information and Communication, 2018
4. Principal Investigator, Smart Shoes for Unobtrusive Human Activity Recognition, grant no. DT.023/17, funded by the Ministry of Information and Communication, 2017
5. Research member, Balance@Home [I led the Fiber Chopping board sub-project], funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7)
6. Research member, The Ambient Kitchen, funded by CELS , UK
Publication
Dang Pham, Phong Tran, Anh Tran, Cuong Pham, Rang Nguyen, Minh Hoai. HyperCUT: Video Sequence from a Single Blurry Image using Unsupervised Ordering. CVPR 2023.
Dat Nguyen, Phong Tran, Tan Dinh, Anh Tran, Cuong Pham. QC-StyleGAN - Quality Controllable Image Generation and Manipulation. NeurIPS 2022.
...and more on my Google scholar and DBLP
Invited Talks
I was invited to give talks at Philips Research , University of Palermo ( as a Visiting Professor), Microsoft Research, Samsung Research, Hanoi University of Science & Technology (HUST), VinUniversity, Vietnam National University (VNU), Viettel High-Tech corporation, VNPT Technology etc.
Teaching
Advanced Embedded Systems (for PhD students), Computer Vision (for graduates), Microprocessors, Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Database, Embedded Systems, Selected Topics on Information Systems (for undergrads)
Supervision & Mentoring
Current
Mai Hoang, Computer Science, Stanford University,
Ngo Duc Anh, Computer Science, National University of Singapour,
Dao Tuan Trung, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research,
Pham Bang Dang, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research,
Nguyen Duc Anh Phuc, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research,
Nguyen Trong Tung, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research,
Do Hoang Khoi Nguyen, AI Research Resident at PTIT xAI, to be a PhD Student at University of Florida,
Nguyen Duc Anh, PhD student at University College Dublin, Ireland, co-supervise with Prof. Le Khac Nhien An (UCD),
Ngo Tien Duc, PhD Student, co-supervise with Prof. Nguyen Le Minh (JAIST) and Dr. Tran Tien Cong (PTIT)
Nguyen Thi Nguyet, PhD student 2023- present, co-supervise with Dr. Anh Tran, VinAI Research,
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, MS student 2023-2024, now at Viettel,
Dong Thi Thu Hai, MS student 2023-2024,
Khuat Van Duc, MS student 2023-2024, sponsored by VinIF
Nguyen Trung Kien, AI Intern at VinBigdata and PTIT x AI Lab.
Nguyen Thu Nga, AI Intern at VinBigdata and PTIT x AI Lab.,
Khong Manh Tung, AI Intern at VinBigdata and PTIT x AI Lab.
Vu Duc Tung, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Le Minh Duy, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Nguyen Hai Nam, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Vu Son Tung, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Bui Quoc Bao, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab and PhD Student at VinUni
Vu Duc Anh, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab and Research Assistant at VinUni
Graduated
Vu Hoai Nam, PhD (sponsored by VinIF), 2019- 2023, co-supervise with Dr. David Lee, MIT, USA & KAIST, Korea, now lecturer at PTIT
Nguyen Duy Duc, AI engineer at VinAI.
Nguyen The Lam, AI engineer at VinAI
Tran Thanh Son, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Ninh Thi Anh Ngoc, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.,
Tran Duc Quang, AI Intern at PTIT x AI Lab.
Nguyen Ngoc Diep, PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Tu Minh Phuong, PTIT, now lecturer at PTIT,
Dao Hoang Mai, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research now PhD Student at University of Edinburgh (top 1 world rank on Speech & NLP) and funded by Google DeepMind,
Bui Nguyen Khanh, MS JAIST, now Director of Nokia Global, Canada
Nguyen Tuan Linh, PhD, co-supervise with Dr. VU Van Thoa, now lecturer and dean of IT faculty at Thainguyen college,
Nguyen Viet Dung, MS, 2020-2021,
Tran Anh Dat, MS, AI Engineer at MobiFone,
Nguyen Viet Thanh Dat, AI Research Engineer at VinAI Research,
Bui Manh Ha, BS, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research, now PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University,
Nguyen Duc Anh, BS, now PhD Student at UC Dublin, Ireland,
Dao Hoang Ngan, AI Intern at NAVER AI Lab. and FPT Software,
Nguyen The An, AI Research Engineer at VinAI Research
Pham Anh Tuan, MS, now at PTIT,
Ha Quang Tan, MS, now technical director at ELCOM,
Nguyen Ngoc Tien, MS, now at Samsung R&D,
Ha Thi Mai Trang, MS, now at Police Academy,
Luong Thi Thanh Huyen, MS, now at VNPT Software,
Nguyen Viet Tiep, MS, now lecturer at Vietnam Forest University,
Vu Van Huy, MS, now tech lead at VNPT Technology,
Nguyen Thi Hanh, MS, now at VNPT Technology,
Bui Thai Duy, MS, now at FPT software
Phan Huu Thang, MS, now at NEO
Tran Duc Vu, now Assistant Professor at Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan,
Lai Dac Viet, PhD student at University of Oregon, USA, now as Research Scientist at S&P Global, USA
Luong Tien Manh, AI Research Resident at VinAI Research, now PhD Student at Monash University and Google
Le Thu Trang, MS at Paris 7, now at Microsoft Paris, France
Nguyen Mai Huong, MS Olso University, Norway.
Nguyen Thai Son, BS, now at AI Tokyo Lab.,
Dam Ba Quyen, BS, now at Zalo AI Lab.,
Le Tuan Anh, BS, now MS student at Angle Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Nguyen Minh Hieu, BS, now at Vantix
Doan Tuan Tu, BS, now at Vantix
Phan Van Tuan, BS, now at Zalo AI, Lab.
Nguyen Trung Ngon, AI engineer at Vantix
Dao Quoc Dat, AI engineer at MISA
Le Binh Duong, AI engineer at SmartCall
Dinh Van Hung, AI engineer at SmartCall
Le Thi Hoa, Data engineer at VCcorp
Nguyen Lan Anh, Software engineer at Samsung