Ha Thuc Viet (in Vietnamese order) PhD Student Office: 201C MacLean Hall Computer Science Department The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 353 2546 email: hviet@cs.uiowa.edu

• Research interests: Machine Learning, Probabilistic Modeling, Text Mining.

• Education
• Papers/publications
• Services
• Research Projects
• Teaching
• Vacation Pictures.

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, 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) (to appear).

*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:

* External 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.

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Vacation Pictures

* Atlanta (Georgia), Tampa, Orlando (Florida), Spring 2008.

* Maryland, Washington DC, Autumn 2007.

* New York City, Washington DC, Niagara Falls, Summer 2007.

* California (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco), Christmas 2006.

* England (Bristol, London), Autumn 2006.