Research:
- AIJ Prominent Paper Award 2021
- IJCAI 2019 Early Career Spotlight Talk (invited)
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award 2018 (Southampton)
- Royal Society’s Kan Tong Po Visiting Fellowship 2017
- University of Southern California’s CAIS Visiting Fellow 2017
- Runner-up – CPHC/BCS PhD Dissertation Award (Best Computer Science PhD thesis in the UK) in 2012/2013
- Honourable mention – ECCAI PhD Dissertation Award (Outstanding European PhD thesis in artificial intelligence) in 2012
- Honourable mention – AAAI 2012 Outstanding Paper Award
- Runner-up – ECAI 2012 Best Student Paper Award
Teaching:
- Dean’s Award 2017 (Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Southampton)
- Most Engaging Lecturer in 2016 (Southampton)
Publications
Google ScholarLink opens in a new window profile
DBLPLink opens in a new window profile
ScopusLink opens in a new window profile
CSAuthorsLink opens in a new window profile
Recent talks:
- Seminar talk at Monash University on data poisoning against bandits and how to defend (2024): video linkLink opens in a new window
- My keynote talk at OptLearnMAS 2021 on multi-agent strategic learning: videoLink opens in a new window
- UMD College Park (6th Nov 2024) – hosted by Prof. Tom GoldsteinLink opens in a new window
- JAIST, Japan (19th Nov 2024) – hosted by Prof. Minh Le NguyenLink opens in a new window
- PRIMA/PRICAI 2024 keynoteLink opens in a new window (20th Nov 2024) – Kyoto, Japan
- Lancaster University (6th March 2025)
Upcoming talks:
- University of Durham (23rd Febr 2026) – online presentation (invited by Dr Cuong NguyenLink opens in a new window)
- University of Manchester (24th Febr 2026) – hosted by Prof Lucas CordeiroLink opens in a new window and Dr Edoardo ManinoLink opens in a new window
- NTU and NUS (March 2026?)
Research group:
Current PhD students
- Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirLink opens in a new window
- Alex MosesLink opens in a new window
- Hoang PhamLink opens in a new window
- Jakub CzarlinskiLink opens in a new window
- Luke MeredithLink opens in a new window
- Phurinut SrisawadLink opens in a new window
- Sam TaagholLink opens in a new window
- Tuan NguyenLink opens in a new window
- Balint GucsiLink opens in a new window (Southampton, graduating end of 2025)
Past supervisees
- Md Mosaddek KhanLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2015-18) – decentralised constraint optimisation problems – Last known position: Assoc. Prof. at Univ. of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Edoardo ManinoLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2015-19) – Bayesian inference techniques in crowdsourcing – Last known position: Assist. Prof. at University of Manchester, UK.
- Paolo SerafinoLink opens in a new window (postdoc, Southampton, 2016-2019) – truthful mechanisms for secure traffic control systems. Last known position: Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) at University of Porthsmouth, UK.
- Nhat TruongLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2015-19) – incentive engineering in crowdsourcing systems. Last known position: industry.
- Taha GunesLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2017-2021) – vulnerability analysis of trust systems in AI (co-supervised with Tim Norman) – Last known position: CTO at Asset Dynamics GroupLink opens in a new window, UK.
- Tin LeelavimolsilpLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2016-2021) – selfish mining in multi-agent blockchain systems (co-supervised with Seb Stein) – Last known position: lecturer (Assist. Prof.) at University of Winchester, UK.
- Guillermo MorenoLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2018-2021) – influence maximisation games (co-supervised with Markus Brede) – Last known position: postdoc at University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Nick BishopLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2018-2022) – bilevel optimisation problems in machine learning (co-supervised with Enrico Gerding) – Last known position: postdoc at University of Oxford, UK.
- Le Cong DinhLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2018-2023) – learning and last round convergence in asymmetric games (co-supervised with Tri-Dung Nguyen and Alain Zemkoho) – Last known position: quant researcher VP at a major investment bank in London, UK.
- Tom DaviesLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Southampton, 2019-2023) – algebraic topology and its applications in machine learning (co-supervised with Ruben Sanchez Garcia) – Last known position: postdoc at the Alan Turing Institute, UK.
- Nam TranLink opens in a new window (PhD student, Warwick, 2021-2025) – geometric structures in multi-agent learning – Last known position: postdoc at Inria Lille, France.
Some personal info
- I was born in Hue, Vietnam but grew up in Budapest, Hungary. My favourite food are Hungarian chicken stewLink opens in a new window and beef noodle soup (Hue style)Link opens in a new window.
- My Erdos number is 3.
- My favourite high school maths journal: KoMaLLink opens in a new window.
- My sister’s song from 2005Link opens in a new window. Some other of her songs from 2008Link opens in a new window and 2010Link opens in a new window.
- A wiki page about my maternal great-grandfather: Dao Duy AnhLink opens in a new window.