Hung V. Nguyen

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Arizona State University

Email: x@y.edu with x=hung, y=asu

Phone: 480-727-7808 (office)

 

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Hi!, my name is Hung Viet Nguyen (Nguyen Viet Hung or Nguyễn Việt Hùng), a PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University working with Hasan Davulcu. I affiliate with Cognitive Information Processing Systems Laboratory. My interests center Data Mining, Statistical Learning in Information Retrieval and Text/Web Mining, Machine Learning (Graphical Models, SVM, Clustering) and Applications.

 

Selected Publications

Hung V. Nguyen and Hasan Davulcu. ”Mining Search-Phrase Definition from Item Descriptions”. ICDE 2008

 

Hung V. Nguyen and Hasan Davulcu. ” On the Problem of Mining Phrase Definition from Item Descriptions”. Book Chapter. To appear in Advanced Topics in Intelligent Information Technology. Volume II.

 

Hung V. Nguyen, Hasan Davulcu, and Vishwanathan Ramachandran. “Boosting Item Findability: Bridging the Semantic Gap between Search Phrases and Item Descriptions”. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, Sepcial Issue. Vol .2, No. 3. July-Septermber 2006

 

Hung V. Nguyen, John Hopcroft, and Bart Selman. “Stability Control in Clustering Large Linked Networks”. Unpublished Manuscripts.

 

Hasan Davulcu, Hung V. Nguyen, and Vishwanathan Ramachandran. “Boosting Item Findability: Bridging the Semantic Gap between Search Phrases and Item Information”. ICEIS 2005., Enterprise Information Systems VII, Springer Velag.

 

Hung V. Nguyen, P. Velamuru, Deepak Kolippakkam, Hasan Davulcu, Huan Liu, M. Ates. “Mining "Hidden Phrase" Definitions from the Web”. APWeb 2003: LNCS, Springer Velag, 156-165.

 

Hung V. Nguyen. “A Tesbed for evaluating Real Time and best effort scheduling”. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 2000. Ranked Distinction.

 

Professional Activities:

  • 2001 – present:  Research Associate, Department in Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University

 

  • May 2004 – Aug 2004: Visiting Researcher at Department of Computer Science, Cornell University (working with John Hopcroft and Bart Selman on Clustering on Large Linked Networks)

 

  • Program Co-Chair: Young Vietnamese Scientist Meeting (YVSM 05), Nha Trang, Vietnam 2005.

 

  • Session Chair, International Conference in Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005).

 

  • May 2006- Aug 2006: Visiting Researcher at R&D Department, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. on Mathematical Modeling for the Spec Allocation Problem in Automated Circuit Design Process.

 

  • Reviewer for VLDB-05, ICDE0-07.

 

  • Reviewer for NSF (National Science Foundation) Grant Proposals.

 

Awards and Honors

  • One of the best paper awards at International Conference in Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005).

 

 

  • Fellow of Cambridge Oversea Society (2000)

 

  • British Chevening – Cambridge Oversea Trust Scholarship for Master Study at University of Cambridge (1999)

 

  • Vietnamese Government Scholarship to outstanding students at the universities in Vietnam (1997)

 

·        Several prizes on Vietnam National Olympic Competition in Computer Science for Talented students, 1993-1996.

 

I have attended Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.