My Curriculum

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POSITIONS

• Oct 18 – Now: Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies (Infomedia), University of Bergen, Norway
• Aug 16 – Sep 18: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Feb 14 – Jul 16: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento & Pattern Recognition and Applications (PraLab), University of Cagliari, Italy
• Sep 10 – Jul 16: Researcher, Media Lab, DISI - University of Trento, Italy
• Mar 09 – Jul 09: Visiting Researcher, Toyota Technology Institute, Japan
• Mar 07 – Sep 10: Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam

EDUCATION

• Feb 14: Ph.D. in Information Communication and Technology, University of Trento, Italy
• Mar 10: M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
• Sep 06: B.Sc., Honors in Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

PI/Co-PI

• Vietnamese Word Segmentation (6/08 – 6/10): Funded by Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology.
• LifeCloud (4/17 – 9/17): Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

Researcher

• Euprojects: GLOCAL (09 – 12) and Living Knowledge (09 – 12).
• Other Projects: 6 national and regional projects during 2008 - 2018.

Talks

• Data Analytics on Personal Life Archive and Its Applications, at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT Tokyo), Tokyo, Japan, June 2018, attendees: about 20.
• Image and Video Forensics - A Condensed Introduction, at University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, April 2018, attendees: over 250.
• Building a Disclosed Personal Life Archive Dataset: Challenges, Principles and Processes, at Quantified Self Dublin Meetup, Meetup, Dublin, July 2017, attendees: about 50.
• Computer Generated versus Natural Human Faces, at Security and Privacy Lab, University of Innsbruck, Austria, November 2015, attendees: about 15.

Organiser/Chair

• 16 workshops, tasks, and special sessions during 2015 - 2018.

PC Member

• Over 22 conferences and workshops during 2015 - 2018.

Reviewer

• Journals/Transactions: IEEE TIFS, ACM TOMM, ACM TAP, and many others.
• Conferences: ACM MM, ACM SIGIR, ACM ICMR, IEEE ICME, and many others.

Research Impact

• h-index = 13, i10-index = 18, total citations = 562. Citation counts according to Google Scholar, retrieved November 2018.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer & Teaching Assistant

• Undergraduate and Master courses. University of Bergen (2018 - Now), Dublin City University (2016 - 2018), University of Trento (2011 - 2016), University of Science (2008 - 2010), and Saigon Technology University (2009).

Supervisor

• Ph.D. Students: Liting Zhou, School of Computing, Dublin City University, 2017 - (expected) 2020.
• Master and Undergraduate students: In the last ten years, I have supervised more than 20 undergraduate students and 9 master students.

Coach

• ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest, University of Science.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• 2017. Securing commercialisation funding, SFI - NSF joint i-Corps programme.
• 2014. First place, in Retrieving Diverse Social Images competition, MediaEval 2014.
• 2012. Best paper award, in Multimedia Forensics, IEEE WIFS.
• 2010. Honorable Mention, in World Final ACM/ICPC, Harbin, China.
• 2009. Excellent ACM/ICPC Coaching Award, University of Science, VNU-HCM.
• 2006. Outstanding students in Undergraduate Research, University of Science.
• 2005. Outstanding students, Ministry of Posts and Telematics and Motorola Corporation.
• 2001. Third prize, in Vietnam National Olympiad of Informatics Contest.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Entrepreneur Lead: LifeCloud (July 2017 – Aug 2017), I-Corps, Ireland and US.
• Editor: Epsilon Magazine (Feb 2015 – Feb 2017), Vietnam.
• Developer: FPT Software Solution (Mar 05 - Jul 05), Freelance Web Developer (2008 – 2009).