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Ha Thuc Viet

(in Vietnamese order)

PhD Student
Office: 101N MacLean Hall
Computer Science Department
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335 2839
email: hviet@cs.uiowa.edu

Research interests: Machine Learning, Topic Modeling, Text/Web Mining, Information Retrieval, Social Analysis.
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Education:

* 8/2006-Present: PhD student, Computer Science Department, The University of Iowa, USA. Advisor: Prof. Padmini Srinivasan.

* 9/2001-3/2006: Undergraduate student, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam.

Publications:

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Padmini Srinivasan (2009) A Latent Dirichlet Framework for Relevance Modeling, In Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS' 09, Hokkaido, Japan) - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (to appear).

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Yelena Mejova, Christopher Harris, Padmini Srinivasan (2009) A Relevance-based Topic Model for News Event Tracking, In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR' 09, Boston, Massachusetts, USA), pages 764-765.

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Yelena Mejova, Christopher Harris, Padmini Srinivasan (2009) Event Intensity Tracking in Weblog Collections, In Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Data Challenge Workshop (ICWSM-DCW' 09, San Jose, California, USA).

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Padmini Srinivasan (2008) Topic Models and a Revisit of Text-Related Applications, In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management PhD Workshop (CIKM-PIKM' 08, Napa Valley, California, USA), pages 25-32.

*Brian Almquist, Yelena Mejova, Viet Ha-Thuc, Padmini Srinivasan (2008) University of Iowa at TREC 2008 Legal and Relevance FeedbackTracks, In Proceedings of the 17th Text Retrieval Conference (non-refereed) (TREC' 08, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA).

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Duc-Cuong Nguyen, Padmini Srinivasan (2008) A Quality-Threshold Data Summarization Algorithm, In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future (RIVF' 08, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), pages 240-246.

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Padmini Srinivasan (2008) A Robust Learning Approach for Text Classification, In Proceedings of the 6th SIAM Workshop on Text Mining (TMW' 08, Atlanta, Georgia, USA), in conjunction with the 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM' 08).

*Brian Almquist, Viet Ha-Thuc, Aditya Sehgal, Robert Arens, Padmini Srinivasan (2007) Exploring the Legal Discovery and Enterprise Tracks at the University of Iowa, In Proceedings of the 16th Text Retrieval Conference (non-refereed) (TREC' 07, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA).

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Padmini Srinivasan (2007) Exploiting Synonym Relationships in Biomedical Named Entity Matching, In Proceedings of the 7th BioLINK SIG Workshop on Biomedical Text Mining (BioLINK' 07, Vienna, Austria), in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB' 07).

*Viet Ha-Thuc, Quang-Anh Nguyen, Tru Cao, Jonathan Lawry (2006) A Fuzzy Synset-based Hidden Markov Model for Automatic Text Segmentation, Book Chapter in J. Lawry et al. (eds.) Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling (Book Series on Advances in Soft Computing), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

*Viet Ha-Thuc (2005) A Grouping-based Graph Coloring Algorithm for Academic Course Scheduling, In Proceedings of the 5th Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Scientific Workshop for Young Researchers (BK' 05, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). (in Vietnamese)

Services:

* Program Committee Member of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Social Media ( MSM'09 , Sevilla, Spain), 2009.

* Additional Reviewer of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining ( WSDM'09 , Barcelona, Spain), 2009.

* Additional Reviewer of the 31st International ACM SIGIR Conference( SIGIR'08 , Singapore), 2008.

* Additional Reviewer of ACL Workshop on BioNLP - Biological, Translational, and Clinical Language Processing ( BioNLP' 07, Prague, Czech), 2007.

Research Projects:

* EIN - Text Mining and Retrieval on Biomedical Data (The University of Iowa, USA), funded by by Infectious Diseases Society of America and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Research Assistant, 1/2007-12/2007.

* EDAGRID - Distributed Data Mining and Logic Circuit Synthesis and Optimization (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam), funded by Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, Research Assistant, 2/2006-8/2006.

* VNKIM - Vietnamese Semantic Web (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam), funded by Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 1/2005-1/2006.