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Associate Professor Thanh Thi Nguyen

School of Science, Technology and Engineering
University of the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia

https://www.unisc.edu.au/staff/associate-professor-thanh-thi-nguyen

E-mail: tnguyen5@usc.edu.au

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Pleased to accept an invite to give a keynote speech on AI for Future Data and Security Engineering at the 13th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering (FDSE), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nov 2026.

Pleased to serve as a Publications Co-Chair for the 33rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2026.

Steering Committee and Program Committee Member of the 13th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering (FDSE), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nov 2026.

Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Bellevue, WA, USA, Oct 2026.

Scientific Review Committee Member of the 27th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2026), Sydney, Australia, Sep 2026.

Technical Program Committee Member of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Naples, Italy, Sep 2026.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 2026 IEEE International Conference in Image Processing (ICIP), Tampere, Finland, Sep 2026.

I have left Monash University and joined the School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast at Moreton Bay campus, Queensland, Apr 2026.

Pleased to serve as an External Reviewer for the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Mar 2026.

Pleased to interview with SBS Vietnamese (part 1), “Which professions are at high risk of being replaced by AI in Australia?”, Melbourne, Jan 2026.

Pleased to interview with SBS Vietnamese (part 2), "What career should you choose? Collaborating with AI to avoid being left behind", Melbourne, Jan 2026.

Keynote Speech, “Driving Digital Business Transformation through Artificial Intelligence” at the International Conference on Sustainable Economics and Finance in the Digital Business Transformation (INCOSEF2025), Vietnam, Dec 2025.

Pleased to supervise Dr. Sue Han Lee from Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia at the Faculty of IT, Monash University during her visit funded by the 2025 International Education Innovation Fund - ASEAN Research Collaboration Project, Dec 2025.

Keynote Speech, “Reward Design for Reinforcement Learning: From Autonomous Control to Large Language Model Development” at the IEEE Industry-Academia Summer School, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2025.

Invited Talk, “AI Applications for Law Enforcement and Community Safety” at the Deakin Machine Intelligence Lab - AI Workshop, co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2025.

Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Vienna, Austria, Oct 2025.

Technical Program Committee Member of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Porto, Portugal, Sep 2025.

Scientific Review Committee Member of the 26th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2025), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Aug 2025.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025), Montreal, Canada, Aug 2025.

I'm pleased to give an invited talk on Reinforcement Learning for the Development of Large Vision Language Models at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Jun 2025.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 36th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2025), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Jun 2025.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI), Santa Clara, California, USA, May 2025.

I'm pleased to give a public lecture on Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence at the Monash Admission Day in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Apr 2025.

I'm pleased to represent Monash Faculty of IT to give a workshop on Monash IT Research Areas and AI for Future Economies at the Melbourne for Research - PhD Open Day in Danang, Vietnam, organized by Study Melbourne, April 2025.

I'm pleased to give a workshop about AI and Its Applications to students and staff members of the Marie Curie Hanoi School, Hanoi, Vietnam, Apr 2025.

I'm pleased to give the invited talk "Innovating with AI: Transforming Economies and Communities for the Future" at the University of Economics, The University of Danang, Apr 2025.

Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee Member of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Analytics (ACOMPA), Nov 2024.

I'm pleased to be among the world's top 2% scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing by Elsevier B.V. and Stanford University, Sep 2024.

Technical Program Committee Member of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Vilnius, Lithuania, Sep 2024.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), Jeju, South Korea, Aug 2024.

I'm pleased to give the invited talk "Detection of online harmful content using Llama 2 large language models" at Data61, CSIRO, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia, Mar 2024.

Invited talk "Recent Developments of Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications" at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Information Technology, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam, Jan 2024.

My PhD student under my main supervision Ngoc Duy Nguyen has been awarded the Alfred Deakin Medal for Doctoral Thesis, "A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Human-Level Agents", Dec 2023.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov 2023.

Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee Member of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Analytics (ACOMPA), Nov 2023.

I'm pleased to be among the world's top 2% scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing by Elsevier B.V. and Stanford University, Oct 2023.

Program Co-Chair of the 2023 EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for CyberSecurity (AICSEC), Bratislava, Slovakia, Oct 2023.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023), Macao, China, Aug 2023.

I have left Deakin University and joined the Department of Data Science & AI, Faculty of IT, Monash University at Clayton campus as an associate professor, Jul 2023.

Invited talk, “AI for the Metaverse” at Deakin AI Festival, Jun 2023.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology (ICICCT), New Delhi, India, May 2023.

Editorial Board Member of the Artificial Intelligence Advances journal, Feb 2023 - Present.

Deakin University Vice-Chancellor's 10 Years Service Milestone Award, December 2022.

One of the Most Popular Articles in the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics since September 2020.

Best Paper Award at the 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Security and Communications (AISC), “Emotion Recognition System via Facial Expressions and Speech using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques”, Nov 2022.

Publicity & Social Media Committee Member of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Analytics (ACOMPA), Vietnam, Nov 2022.

Pleased to be among the world's top 2% scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing by Elsevier B.V. and Stanford University, Nov 2022.

Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security", Sensors Journal (ISSN 1424-8220).

Keynote speech on "Applications of AI in the Battle against COVID-19" at the 15th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ACOMP), Vietnam, Nov 2021.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ACOMP), Vietnam, Nov 2021.

Keynote speech, "Research Directions in AI for Fighting COVID-19" at the Deakin School of IT HDR Annual Conference, Nov 2021.

Invited talk at the International Webinar "AI: Opportunities and Challenges" at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Technology, The National University of Malaysia, October 2021.

I was interviewed by Dr. Renee Beale, host of the Scipothesis podcast, about the creation and detection of deepfakes, which can be found at the following link: https://www.scipothesis.org/episodes/episode-01-deepfakes

I have accepted an invitation to be a member of the Organizing Committee of the IEEE SMC 2021 Conference, to be held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in October 2021.

I was invited to give a talk on “Human strategies to coordinate multiple deep reinforcement learning agents” at Monash Faculty of IT in March 2021.

We have secured the project "Utilise Human Expertise to Extend the Capabilities of Reinforcement Learning" funded by DST Group under the AI for Decision Making Initiative.

I was invited to give an online talk on "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Applications" to a group of around 60 engineers at the Ericsson company, Chennai, India in July 2020.

We have secured the project "Analysis of factors influencing electrical network-related incidents", which aims to improve safety of electrical networks.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Jul 2020.

Our paper "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Security" has been listed in Best Deep Reinforcement Learning Research of 2019 by the Open Data Science Conference.

Our tutorial "Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted at the IEEE WCCI 2020 to be held in Glasgow, UK in July 2020.

Our Special Session "Methods and Applications of Deep Reinforcement Learning to Autonomous Systems" has been accepted at the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), part of IEEE WCCI 2020 (Glasgow, UK).

I'm pleased to give an invited tutorial at IIT-Kanpur, "Implementing deep reinforcement learning with OpenAI Gym", India, Mar 2020.

Invited talk at IIT-Roorkee, "Multi-objective deep reinforcement learning", India, Mar 2020.

Invited talk at IIT-Madras, "Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning", India, Feb 2020.

I was invited to be the Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Deep Reinforcement Learning: Methods and Applications", Electronics Journal (ISSN 2079-9292).

I have been awarded the Australia–India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Early- and Mid-Career Fellowship (2020) by the Australian Academy of Science on the topic of deep reinforcement learning, working with IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee in India.

We have recently released the universal deep reinforcement learning framework Fruit API to facilitate the development and applications of deep reinforcement learning methods, reported in a paper at https://bit.ly/2Pj0dyC

We have secured the project "Improving decision making in self-adaptive systems using reinforcement learning" with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan (2020).

We have secured the project "Geospatial data analysis for infrastructure planning and prioritization in Indonesia" with the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Economic Development (2019-2020).

We have secured the project in partnership with IIT Kanpur "Deployment of low-cost multi-rotor mini-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for early detection of crop diseases and development of an optimal system for management of farming activities" from the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC): A Government of India Initiative (2019-2020).

Chair of the AI & Big Data Analytics Track at the 10th Int. Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi & Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, Dec 2019.

Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on SMC, Bari, Italy, Oct 2019.

We have secured the project "Intelligent data fusion and analytics framework for decision support in predictive maintenance services", funded by the Rail Manufacturing CRC and Downer Group (2019).

Chair of the AI & Big Data Analytics Track at the 9th Int. Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, Da Nang, Vietnam, Dec 2018.

I'm pleased to give an invited talk at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI GmbH), "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Human-Level Agents", Sep 2018.

I'm pleased to receive a European-Pacific Partnership for ICT (EPIC) Expert Exchange Program Award from the European Commission, Mar 2018.

Program Committee Member of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (IWCSN), Doha, Qatar, Dec 2017.

Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on SMC, Banff, AB, Canada, Oct 2017.

Program Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), Doha, Qatar, Feb 2017.

Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on SMC, Budapest, Hungary, Oct 2016.

I'm pleased to give an invited talk at the IEEE Victorian Chapter Workshop on "Advanced Machine Learning for Big Data Analytics", Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2015.

Program Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), Wuyi, China, Mar 2015.

Technical Program Committee Member of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), Kuching, Malaysia, Nov 2014.