Education Background

1. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, National Institute of Informatics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan, 2018.

   • Supervisor: Prof. Akihiro Sugimoto.

2. Master of Science in Computer Science, John Von Neumann Institute and University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam, 2014.

   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Minh-Triet Tran.

3. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Honors Program), University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam, 2012.

   • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Minh-Triet Tran.

Working Experience

1. 08/2022 - Present: Senior Researcher and Lecturer

   • Faculty for Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

   • Software Engineering Laboratory (SELab), University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2. 04/2022 - 07/2022: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (特任助教)

   • ELab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

3. 2020 - 04/2022: Postdoctoral Fellow

   • ELab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

4. 2018 - 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow

   • ITS Center, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

5. 2017: Visiting Research Student

   • Vision and Mixed Reality Lab, University of Dayton, Ohio, US.

   • Advisor: Assistant. Prof. Tam Nguyen.

6. 2015 - 2018: Research Assistant

   • Computer Vision and Discrete Geometry Lab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

   • Advisor: Prof. Akihiro Sugimoto.

7. 2014 - 2015: Internship Student

   • Computer Vision and Discrete Geometry Lab, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

   • Advisor: Prof. Akihiro Sugimoto.

8. 2013 - 2014: Teaching Assistant

   • University of Science, VNU-HCM

   • University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM

9. 2013 - 2014: Research Assistant

   • Social Media Lab,  John von Neumann Institute, VNU-HCM.

10. 2010 - 2012: Research Assistant

    • Smart Digital Content Research Group,  Information Technology Faculty, University of Science, VNU-HCM.

Professional Activities

Reviewer for journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)

• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM)

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS)

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)

• Pattern Recognition (PR)

• International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research

• Multimedia Systems

Reviewer for conferences:

• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

• ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM)

• Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 

• International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

• Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

• International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

• International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)

• International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS)

• Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)

• International Symposium On Information And Communication Technology (SoICT)

• ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)

• NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS)

Organizer:

• SHREC Challenge Tracks at 3DOR 2023

• MediaEval Challenge Track at MMM 2024

Other:

• Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Mixed Reality Applications" of Journal of Electronics.

Grant and Fellowship

• NAFOSTED Grant, Vietnam, 2024-2026.

• VNU-HCM Grant, Vietnam, 2024-2026.

• HCMUS Grants, Vietnam, 2022-2023, 2023-2024.

• JSPS KAKENHI Grants, Japan, 2020-2021, 2021-2023. (Terminated in 2022 because I leave Japan)

• CREST AIP Grants, Japan, 2020-2021, 2021-202.

• Scholarship of National Institute of Informatics, Japan, 2015-2018.

• MEXT Honors Scholarship,  Japan, 2015-2017.

• Fellowship of Young Talent Development Foundation, Vietnam, 2013.

Awards and Honors

• Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (Telecom Interdisciplinary Research Award), 2023 (第38回電気通信普及財団賞（テレコム学際研究賞）特例表彰)

• 5th place in AI City Challenge (Track 4), CVPR, 2020.

• 10th place in AI City Challenge (Track 1), CVPR, 2020.

• 4th place in Densely Annotated VIdeo Segmentation (DAVIS) Challenge (Semi-Supervised Segmentation Track), CVPR, 2020.

• 8th place in AI City Challenge (Track 3), CVPR, 2019.

• 25th place in AI City Challenge (Track 2), CVPR, 2019 (out of 84 team submissions)

• 3rd place in Densely Annotated VIdeo Segmentation (DAVIS) Challenge (Semi-Supervised Segmentation Track), CVPR, 2019.

• 6th place in Densely Annotated VIdeo Segmentation (DAVIS) Challenge (Semi-Supervised Segmentation Track), CVPR, 2018 .

• 3rd place in Densely Annotated VIdeo Segmentation (DAVIS) Challenge (Semi-Supervised Segmentation Track), CVPR, 2017 .

• 1st place in Euréka student scientific research competition of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2013.

• Young Talented Scientists Award of Vietnam, 2012.

• 1st place in Hackathon mobile application development, Vietnam, 2012.