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Currently I work as an Assistant Professional Professor in Computer Science department at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMUCC), Texas. My research interests are Computational Social Science, Social Media Analysis, Health Data Analytics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Applied Machine Learning. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow in Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Arkansas. I received a PhD in Computer Science, University of Iowa, USA in 2019, a MSc in Computer Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea in 2012 and a BSc in Computer Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam in 2010.

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12/2023: Our paper "RxNorm for Drug Name Normalization: A Case Study of Prescription Opioids in the FDA Adverse Events Reporting System" was accepted at journal Frontiers in Bioinformatics.
10/2023: Our paper "A Systematic Analysis and Data Mining of Opioid-related Adverse Events Submitted to the FAERS database" was accepted at journal Experimental Biology and Medicine (EBM).
03/2023: Our abstract "RxNorm for Drug Name Normalization: A Case Study of Prescription Opioids in the FDA Adverse Envets Reporting System" was accepted as poster presentation at SOT'23 in Nashville, TN.
03/2023: I received the best poster award among postdoctoral fellows at AR-BIC'23 in Little Rock, AR.
04/2022: I am awarded as 3rd place in the 2022 MCBIOS Young Scientist Excellent Awards (YSEA).
04/2022: Our abstract "Data Mining of Adverse Events with Opioids from the FDA Adverse Events Reporting System" was accepted as oral presentation in MCBIOS 2022.
10/2021: Our paper "Discovering Drug-Drug Associations in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Database with Data Mining Approaches" was accepted at BIBM'21
10/2021: Our paper "Text Fingerprinting and Topic Mining in the Prescription Opioid Use Literature" was accepted at BHI'21
03/2021: Our abstract "Topic Modeling Prescription Opioid Studies on PubMed" was accepted as poster presentation in MCBIOS & MAQC 2021 Joint Conference.
01/2021: Our abstract "Text Fingerprinting and Mining Topics in the Literatures about Prescription Opioid Use" was accepted as poster presentation in SOT Virtual Annual Meeting 2021.
02/2020: I attended AR-BIC'20 in Feb 10-11 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
11/2019: I passed my PhD thesis defense
08/2019: I get funded to attend ASONAM'19 in Aug 27-30 in Vancouver, Canada.
06/2019: Our paper "A Postmortem of Suspended Twitter Accounts in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election" was accepted at ASONAM'19
05/2019: I am awarded student travel grant to attend WWW'19 in May 13-17 in San Francisco, CA.
01/2019: I am awarded student travel grant to attend FAT*'19 in Jan 29-31 in Atlanta, GA.
01/2019: Our paper "Measuring Political Personalization of Google News Search" was accepted at WWW'19
11/2018: I am awarded Ada Louise Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa
11/2018: I passed the proposal defense
08/2018: I get funded to attend GHC'18 in Sep 26-28 in Houston, TX.
06/2018: I am accepted to be one of members in IMC 2018 Shadow PC.
06/2018: I am accepted to attend SICSS'18 in Aug 13-17 in Boulder, CO.
04/2018: I am awarded student travel grant to attend ICWSM'18 in Jun 25-28 in Stanford, CA.
10/2017: I am awarded Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa
03/2017: Our paper "Bumps and Bruises: Mining Presidential Campaign Announcements on Twitter" was accepted at HT'17
03/2017: I passed the PhD comprehensive exam
02/2017: Our paper "Scalable News Slant Measurement Using Twitter" was accepted at ICWSM'17
12/2016: Our paper "Revisiting The American Voter on Twitter" was accepted at CHI'17
11/2016: Our paper "What Campaigns Become as Social Media Become the Infrastructure of Political Communication" was published as a chapter in the book "Social Media and Politics: A New Way to Participate in the Political Process"
02/2015: I passed the PhD qualifying exam
06/2013: I am awarded Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship to pursue PhD in U.S.