News
2024
May 2024: A paper on Assortment Optimization accepted to Product and Operations Management
May 2024: I got the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for research excellence.
April 2024: Hung Tran was offered a Vingroup Young Talent Scholarship to join our team in Fall 2024
April 2024: Two papers, one to Transportation Research part B, one to IJCAI 2024
Jan 2024: Pham hoang Giang and Bui The Viet joined our team as PhD students, welcome both!
2023
Dec-2023: Two papers on safe RL and imitation learning to AAAI 2024.
Oct-2023: Bui The Viet (my current RE and upcoming Ph.D. student) got an SMU Presidental Dotorat Fellowship in Computing and the 2023 SMU Research Staff Excellence Awards (one of four recipients across the university).
June-2023: Paper to Computer and Operations Research
May-2023: Paper accepted to Transportation Research Part B
April-2023: One journal paper accepted to European Journal of Operational Research
Feb-2022: One paper to ICAPS 2023
Jan-2023: One paper accepted as full paper to AAMAS 23
2022
Nov-2022: Two papers accepted to AAAI 23
Sep-2022: A paper about distributionally robust fractional programming is accepted to NeurIPS 22
Sep-2022: Invited as PC member for AAAI23 ,
June-2022: Co-PI, Trust to Train and Train to Trust: Agent Training Programs for Safety-Critical Environments, AI Singapore, (S$6,086,963.76)
June-2022: Paper accepted to Winter Simulation Conference 2022 (WSC2022)
May-2022: Paper presented at the 13th Workshop on Optimization and Learning in Multiagent Systems - AAMAS 2022 [link]
March-2022: Paper accepted for publication in Transportation Science
March-2022: Invited talk at Vietnam Operations Research Network (VORN)
Jan-2022: Paper accepted for publication in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
2021
Dec-2021: Invited talk at Forum ``Math for Industry'' 2021, Vietnam Institute of Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM)
Dec-2021: Organize VIASM Meeting on Mathematical Aspects of Computer Sciences. [Link]
Dec-2021: A paper accepted to AAAI-22 (main track, my first AI/ML paper)
Nov-2021: Invited talk at Department of Computer Science, Tübingen University
Oct-2021: Invited talk at SUTD. [Link].
Sep-2021: Two papers accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part B and European Journal of Operational Research
July-2021: Invited talk at Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM)
June-2021: Invited talk at School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. [Link].
2020 and ealier
April - 2020: A paper accepted for publication in Mathematical Programming
April - 2020: I accepted an offer of Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Singapore Management University.
Jan-2020: Two papers accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part C and European Journal of Operational Research.
Dec-2019: Congrats to Thuy Anh Ta for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis.
May - 2018: I got the MIT-SMART scholar fellowship
January - 2018: I got the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 7-11, 2018.
May - 2017: My Ph.D. dissertation was selected to be on the Dean's honor list, of University of Montreal.
December - 2016: I got the TSL-INFORMS Dissertation Prize at the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, U.S.
August - 2016: Congrats Thuy Anh for the "Young Researcher Award" at the MOSIM conference, well deserved!
July - 2016: My first sole authored paper "A method of integrating correlation structures for a generalized recursive route choice model" got accepted in Transportation Research Part B.
March - 2016: My Ph.D. is done! My thesis was qualified "Exceptional" by the jury
Sep-2014: Best Paper Award, 3rd Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation