Biography
Thao Minh Le completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Deakin University, writing his doctoral thesis on deep neural networks for visual reasoning, and winning the Alfred Deakin Medal for best doctoral thesis.
Le completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Deakin University’s Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, where he collaborated with colleagues and international researchers to write multiple conference papers and journal articles in the fields of machine learning, computer vision and its applications, including applications in critical domains such as health care and safety services.
His professional experience includes work as a software engineer at Samsung, developing new features for smartphone apps and improving their performance.
Research Interests
- Computer vision and multimedia computation
- Data management and data science
- Deep learning and machine learning techniques for visual perception, and vision and language reasoning
Publications
- Thao Minh Le, Vuong Le, Svetha Venkatesh and Truyen Tran. Hierarchical Conditional Relation Networks for Multimodal Video Question Answering. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
- Tri Minh Nguyen, Thin Nguyen, Thao Minh Le, Truyen Tran. GEFA: Early Fusion Approach in Drug-Target Affinity Prediction. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
- Thao Minh Le, Long Hoang Dang, Thanh-Son Nguyen, Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen, Xuan-Son Vu. VLSP 2021 – VieCap4H Challenge: Automatic Image Caption Generation for Healthcare Domain in Vietnamese. VNU Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering.
- Long Hoang Dang, Thao Minh Le, Vuong Le, Tu Minh Phuong, Truyen Tran. Dynamic Reasoning for Movie QA: A Character-Centric Approach. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
- Nikolaj Normann Holma, Thao Minh Le, Anne Frølichc, Ove Andersene, Helle Gybel Juul-Larsene, Anders Stockmarra, Svetha Venkatesh. amVAE: Age-aware Multimorbidity clustering using Variational AutoEncoders. Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Deakin University, Australia
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
B.A. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam