The-Anh Vu-Le (Nah)

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Greetings. :heart_eyes:

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I recently earned my Master’s degree in Computer Science from UIUC.

I was happily thrown into the world of network science, particularly in modeling and community detection in complex networks. I am blessed to be advised by Professor Tandy Warnow, who is both a great mentor and scientist. I am also fortunate to receive guidance from Professor George Chackoge, who is just as brilliant.

Research My main research focus is network science. Previously, I studied the theoretical aspect of machine learning and related fields, especially deep learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, and many other cool things.

Past study I received my Bachelor’s degree in Nov 2020 from the Honors Program of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMUS). In 2021, I took graduate-level courses from a Master’s program at the John Von Neumann Institute, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (JVN) but did not finish the degree.

In my undergraduate years, I was a research assistant at SELab, advised by Professor Minh-Triet Tran. Before joining UIUC, I worked as an intern-becoming-resident at VinAI Research, advised by Professor Minh-Hoai Nguyen, Professor Tung Pham, Professor Viet-Anh Nguyen, and Professor Nhat Ho. All of the people mentioned are those to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.

news

May 17, 2025 Earned my Master’s Degree at UIUC! Don’t worry, I am still working towards my PhD’s degree.
Apr 10, 2025 RECCS has been accepted for publication in the journal Advances in Complex Systems
Mar 18, 2025 EC-SBM has been accepted for publication in the journal Applied Network Science
Dec 11, 2024 Passed the PhD Qualifying Exam! 🎉
Oct 04, 2024 2 papers (SBM+WCC, RECCS) accepted to Complex Networks & Their Applications 2024
Jul 27, 2023 1 paper (GroundedBERT) accepted to ACM Multimedia 2023
Dec 15, 2022 The start of a new blog! :sparkle:

latest posts

selected publications

  1. EC-SBM
    EC-SBM Synthetic Network Generator
    The-Anh Vu-Le, Lahari Anne, George Chacko, and 1 more author
    In Applied Network Science, 2025
  2. RECCS
    RECCS: Realistic Cluster Connectivity Simulator for Synthetic Network Generation
    Lahari Anne, The-Anh Vu-Le, Minhyuk Park, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Complex Systems, 2025
  3. SBM+WCC
    Improved Community Detection using Stochastic Block Models
    Minhyuk Park, Daniel Wang Feng, Siya Digra, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications, 2024
  4. GroundedBERT
    Expand BERT Representation with Visual Information via Grounded Language Learning with Multimodal Partial Alignment
    The-Anh Vu-Le*, Cong-Duy Nguyen*, Thong Nguyen, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023
  5. m-POT
    Improving Mini-batch Optimal Transport via Partial Transportation
    Khai Nguyen*, Dang Nguyen*, The-Anh Vu-Le, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022