Trung-Hoang Le (Lê Trung Hoàng)
Singapore Management University
Research Scientist
SMU School of Computing and Information Systems
Research Scientist
SMU School of Computing and Information Systems
email: thle.2017 AT smu.edu.sg
CV
PhD Thesis
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
GitHub
News
2024-06-04:
Paper accepted at EDBT-25, titled "Selecting Comparative Sets of Reviews Across Multiple Items"
2024-05-13:
Served The ACM Web Conference 2024 in Singapore as a Technical Supporter
2023-12-14:
Paper accepted at ECIR-24, titled "Hypergraphs with Attention on Reviews for Explainable Recommendation"
2023-03-13:
Started Research Scientist@Preferred.AI
2022-12-16:
Tutorial accepted at TheWebConf-23 (also known as WWW-23), titled "Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability"
2022-11-29:
Dissertation Defense, titled "Mining Product Textual Data for Recommendation Explanations"
2022-10-25:
Paper accepted at IEEE BigData 2022, titled "Question Attentive Review-Level Recommendation Explanation"
2022-08-15:
Teaching Assistant for SMU COR-IS1702 Computational Thinking
2022-07-28:
Presenting poster of paper "Synthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews" at SDSC Industry Demo Day Session on July 28, 2022
2022-04-14:
Teaching Assistant for SMU CS608 Recommender Systems (MITB)
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 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
Reviewer
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2024: TheWebConf, KDD
Talks
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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. Lauw,International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'25 ), Mar 2025.
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