Research Scientist (short-term contract). 11/2018 – 1/2019 Project: Deep reinforcement learning for marketing Credit AI - Trusting Social, Melbourne, Australia
Jun 20. University of Liverpool, UK — Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
Jun 20. Oxford-Man Institute 11st Machine Learning Workshop — Controlling quantum device measurement using DRL.
Jun 20. University of Twente, The Netherlands — Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
Jun 20. University of Glasgow, UK — Recent advances in Bayesian optimization.
Dec 19. VinAI Research, VN — Knowing the what but not the where in Bayesian optimization.
Nov 19. University of Oxford, Dept of Materials — DRL for controlling quantum device.
Aug 19. University of Melbourne, Aus — Machine learning for decision making under uncertainty.
Jun 19. University of Roma, Italy — Bayesian optimization for accelerating hyperparameter tuning.
May 19. University of Southampton, UK — Machine learning for decision making under uncertainty.
Apr 19. Oxford-Man Institute on Quantitative Finance — Deep reinforcement learning for marketing.
Oct 18. Credit AI, Australia — Bayesian optimization for experimental design.
Dec 17. Deakin-Defense Science Technology Workshop — Bayesian optimization for hyper-parameter tuning.
Grant and Funding
Google Cloud Platform Education Grant, Aug 2020-2021. $5000 USD
Young Investigator Training Program Grant, Italy, June 2019. €3000
NVIDIA, GPU Grant. 2019
Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub (NQIT). Machine Learning for Quantum Technologies. 2018-2019. £105,978 Named Researcher.
Telstra Grant - COE in Big Data and Machine Learning. 2016-2019. $1,600,000 AUD With PRADA team at Deakin University.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant. Course: Introduction to Programming. Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011. University of Science - VNU HCMC
Teaching Assistant. Course: Advanced Machine Learning. Master Course, Trinity Term 2019. University of Oxford
Guest Lecturer. Course: Introduction to Machine Learning. Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011. University of Science - VNU HCMC
Guest Lecturer. Course: Advanced Data Science. Undergraduate Course, Spring 2018. Deakin University
Lecturer. Course: Data Estimation and Inference. CDT AIMS. Postgraduate Course, Michaelmas Term 2019. University of Oxford
Senior Demonstrator. Course: Practical Gaussian Process and Bayesian Optimisation. Postgraduate Course, Hilary Term 2020. University of Oxford
Mentorship
Julian Berk. PhD at Deakin University. Associate Supervisor. 2017-2019. Topic: Methods for Improving Bayesian Optimization through Thompson Sampling.
Samuel Kessler. DPhil at University of Oxford. Informal Supervisor. 2019-2020 Topic: Indian Buffet Neural Networks for Continual Learning.
Labiba Noorain. Master Thesis. University College London. Co-supervisor. Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 Topic: A machine learning approach for polymer nanoparticles and metal nanoparticles designed in antiviral drug delivery.
Xinglong Wang. Undergraduate - EUROP summer placement at University of Oxford. Main supervisor. Jun 2020 - Dec 2020 Topic: Interpretable Gaussian Process.
Xinqi Zhu. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Alexander Soen. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
Yixin Liu. Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Main supervisor. Jul 2023 - Jan 2024