Academic Positions

  • Present 2018

    Assistant Professor

    University of Oregon

    Department of Computer and Information Science

Education & Training

  • Postdoc 2016 - 2018

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    University of Michigan

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • Ph.D.2011 - 2016

    Doctor of Philosophy

    University of Southern California

    Department of Computer Science

  • B.Sc.2005 - 2010

    Bachelor of Science

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology

    Center for Training of Excellent Students

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • 2020
    [Grant, ~$343K] Adversarial Reasoning: Tackling Sequential and Coordinated Attacks in Security Domains with Real-time Information
    The project is funded by Army Research Office, Grant W911NF-20-1-0344, October 2020 - September 2023.
  • 2016
    Deployed Application Award, Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI)
    The award is presented to Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, Milind Tambe and Andrew Lemieux for the deployed application paper titled Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security.
  • 2016
    Runner-up of the Best Innovative Application Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
    This is presented to Thanh H. Nguyen, Arunesh Sinha, Shahrzad Gholami, Andrew Plumptre, Lucas Joppa, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Rob Critchlow, and Colin Beale for the paper titled CAPTURE: A New Predictive Anti-Poaching Tool for Wildlife Protection.
  • 2015
    WiSE Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California
    The Merit Fellowship is offered to Ph.D. students at University of Southern California who demonstrate exceptional work in their field. Two women candidates are chosen from the Viterbi School of Engineering every year.