Trung-Hoang Le (Lê Trung Hoàng)
University of Science, VNU-HCM
Faculty of Information Technology
Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor)
Faculty of Information Technology
Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor)
email: lthoang AT hcmus.edu.vn
CV
PhD Thesis
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
GitHub
News
2025-09-01:
Started Lecturer at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City
2025-05-25:
Invited as a reviewer for DSAA 2025
2025-04-02:
Invited as a reviewer for ACML 2025
2025-03-01:
Promoted to Technical Lead for the AI-Assisted Regional ATFM Project
2025-02-24:
Visited Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) for AirTOP fast time simulator usage discussion
2025-02-20:
Attend Vietnam Global Innovation Connect 2025.
2025-01-12:
Invited as a reviewer for KDD 2025 (Feb Cycle)
2024-11-12:
Attend The 14th Scientific Conference, University of Science, VNU-HCM.
2024-09-23:
Paper "Question-Attentive Review-Level Explanation for Neural Rating Regression" is accepted at ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
2024-09-08:
Paper "Learning to Rank Aspects and Opinions for Comparative Explanations" is accepted for presentation at the ACML 2024 Journal Track (Machine Learning Journal).
Awards
August 2021
AY2020-21 SCIS Dean's List in recorgnition of significant research achievements
School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 2021.
July 2021
SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Academic Year 2021/2022 (top 15%)
Singapore Management University, 2021.
March 2021
Singapore Data Science Consortium (SDSC), 2021.
January 2021
Distinguished Paper Award at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020 (IJCAI-20)
for the publication "Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews" by Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. Lauw.
July 2020
SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Academic Year 2020/2021 (top 15%)
Singapore Management University, 2020.
August 2017
SMU Full Scholarship (4 years), PhD in Computer Science
Singapore Management University, 2017.
Teaching
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Teaching Assistant for CM102 - Critical Thinking - Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
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Teaching Assistant for SMU CS608 Recommender Systems - Master of IT in Business - Summer 2021, Summer 2022
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Teaching Assistant for SMU CS201 Data Structures and Algorithms (BSc) - Fall 2020
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Teaching Assistant for SMU COR-IS1702 Computational Thinking - Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
Program Committee
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2024: TheWebConf, KDD
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2025: KDD, TheWebConf, ACML, DSAA
Journal Reviewer
Talks
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2025-05-07 - Towards Trust in Recommendations: Weaving Evaluative and Comparative Explanations from Textual Data, ATMRI @ Nayang Technological University Singapore
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2024-11-13 - My recent works on recommendation explanation (3 talks) + Panel discussion: Guidedance and Experiences in Navigating Ph.D. Studies - The 14th Scientific Conference, University of Science, VNU-HCM
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2024-07-31 - Selecting Comparative Sets of Reviews Across Multiple Items (poster) - Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2024
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2022-07-28 - Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews (poster) - SDSC Industry Demo Session
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2019-12-08 - Explainable Recommendation with Cornac - VNU-HCM University of Science
Blogs
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2022-11-30 - All Good Recommendations Come with an Explanation
Publications
2025
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Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. LauwInternational Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'25), Mar 2025.
2024
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Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. LauwACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 132:1 - 132:25, Dec 2024.
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Theis E. Jendal, Trung-Hoang Le, Hady W. Lauw, Matteo Lissandrini, Peter Dolog and Katja HoseEuropean Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'24), Mar 2024.
2023
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Trung-Hoang Le, Quoc-Tuan Truong, Aghiles Salah, and Hady W. LauwTutorial at ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf'23 or WWW'23), Apr 2023.
2022
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Trung-Hoang LePhD Dissertation, Singapore Management University, 2022.
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Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. LauwIEEE Conference on Big Data (BigData'22), Dec 2022.
2021
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Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. LauwACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'21), Mar 2021.
2020
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Trung-Hoang Le and Hady W. LauwInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'20), Jul 2020. Distinguished Paper Award