Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh city University of Science

Research Trends in Faculty of Information technology

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(HCMC US)
Schools in University of Science: School of Mathematics School of Information Technology (FIT - HCMUS) School of Physics etc

Departments in FIT - HCMUS

Computer Science

Provides the advanced knowledge and skills to create various integrated applications having intelligent behaviors

Information Systems

Provides the knowledge to help students to implement and develop IS Projects in economic administration, official management, information retrieval

Knowledge Engineering

Provides the knowledge in cryptography, security and natural language processing

Departments in FIT - HCMUS

Software Engineering

Provides knowledge in implementing, managing, and maintaining projects which help students to design and implement the high quality software products.

Computer Networks & Telecommunication

Provides the knowledge in telecommunication through wide-area networks, local area networks, and distributed database systems

Computer Vision & Robotics

Provides the knowledge in digital image and video processing, computer vision and robotics

3 Research Labs

Software Engineering Laboratory (SELab) Artificial Intelligent Laboratory (AILab)

Doing research and developing software inside and outside the country.

Doing research in Computer Science and Knowledge Engineering field.

Network Security Laboratory (NSLab)

Doing research in Computer Network and Telecommunication field.

Research
Computer Sciences Data Mining Soft Computing

Natural Language Processing NLP-tools Spoken Language Processing

Software Engineering Patterns-based Approaches in SE Software process

FIT Research 20 Doctors. 30 PhD Students 7 Research groups

GIS and Image Processing Developing realworld GIS applications Computer vision

Information System Information retrieval Database Security

Applied Mathematics Mathematical cryptology Combination

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Software Development Process & Technology

Aim at proposing methods and techniques for a reliable software development. Current research topics: Process Modeling and Enacting. Design Patterns. Software Inspection and Verification Model Driven Development.

Leader: Assoc. Prof. Tran Dan Thu, PhD. tdthu@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Members: Nguyen Vu Tran Minh Triet Nguyen Minh Huy Pham Minh Tuan Ngo Ba Nam Phuong Nguyen Hoang Anh PhD Students: Huynh Thuy Bao Tran (2008-2012) Tran Thi Bich Hanh (2009-2013)

Research works & publications Participated in 3 VNU-HCM key projects. Publish over 15 papers in top international Conferences & Journals.

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Data Mining and Soft Computing

Leader: Assoc. Prof. Le Hoai Bac, PhD. lhbac@fit.hcmus.edu.vn

Members: Le Hoang Thai Tran Ngoc Trung Vu Thanh Hung Nguyen Hoang Tu Anh To Hoai Viet Nguyen Ngoc Thao PhD Students: Vo Dinh Bay (2008-2011) Van Thien Hoang (2009-2012) Nguyen Vinh Nam (2010-2013) Tran Ngoc Anh (2011-2014)

Data Ming: main activities focus on Theoretic Foundations and Novel Algorithm Association Rules Classification, Ranking and Clustering Text Mining Machine Learning and Statistical Methods Data mining in specialized domains (Bio-Informatics, Web /Internet mining) Soft Computing: Building models to combine techniques in Artificial Intelligence such as Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, and Probabilistic Reasoning to solve problems in Image Processing, Vietnamese Writing Recognition, Handwriting Recognition, Fingerprint Classification and Recognition, Biometrics, etc. Research works & publications

-Participated in 1 NFOSTED Project, 3 HCMC Projects, 2 VNU-Projects, and 2 State Fundamental Research Projects. - Publish over 40 papers in international Conferences & Journals

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Spoken Language Processing

Main activities focus on Spoken Language Processing for Vietnamese, including: + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis + Alt.

Leader: Assoc. Prof. Vu Hai Quan, PhD. vhquan@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Members: Nam Cao Ha Vo Hue Nguyen Nhi Le Truong Tran Minh Le PhD Students: Son Trinh (2010-2014) Nhut Pham (2010-2014) Duong Dau (2011-2015)

Research works & publications Participated in 7 National/VNU-HCM key projects. Publish over 40 papers in international Conferences & Journals.

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Information Retrieval

The research topics: Indexing Models Natural Language Processing for IR Cross Language IR Recommendation Systems Question & Answers Systems Medical Information Retrieval Currently, research activities focus on Vietnamese. Research works & publications -Participated in 1 National Project, 1 International Cooperation Project (in program PCSI-AUP), and 1 VNU-Project. - Publish over 40 papers in international Conferences & Journals Results 1. Vietnamese IR test collection 2. English-Vietnamese parallel corpus 3. EVTMINER : English-Vietnamese parallel corpus mining tool 4. EVCLIR : Prototype for English Vietnamese Cross Language Information System 5. VNSearch : Prototype for Vietnamese Text Search Engine

Leader: Mr. Ho Bao Quoc, PhD. hbquoc@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Advisor: Prof. Dong Thi Bich Thuy, PhD. Members: Dang Bac Van Luong Vi Minh Tuan Nguyen Hoai Duc Nguyen Truong Son Le Minh Quang PhD Students: Huynh Huu Nghia (2010-2014)

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Research group

Vietnamese Computational Linguistics

Research in Vietnamese-related NLP topics, e.g.: - Machine Translation (English-Vietnamese MT). - Parallel corpora (Bilingual English-Vietnamese) - Annotated corpora (Vietnamese Tree Banks) - NLP-tools (Word Segmentation, POS-Tagger, ) - MRD (Machine Readable Dictionaries)

Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dinh Dien, PhD. ddien@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Members: Nghiem Quoc Minh Hoang Cong Duy Vu Luu Nguyen Thuy Ngan Do Xuan Quang Vu Thuy PhD Students: Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung (20102013) Van Chi Nam (2011-2014)

Research works & publications -Participated in 2 International Cooperation Project s. - Publish over 10 papers in international Conferences & Journals

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Research group

Integrated and Intelligent Systems

Leader: Mr. Dinh Ba Tien, PhD. dbtien@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Advisor: Prof. Duong Anh Duc, PhD. Members: Le Thuy Anh Ngo Ba Nam Phuong Truong Phuoc Loc Pham Hoang Hai Luong Vi Minh

Focus on studying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) problems and developing real-world applications, especially solving combinatorial problems on road maps. So far, we has introduced several GIS applications winning many prestigious prizes at national level. Currently, the group is interested in: Video tracking systems

Studying and building GIS database with different levels of topology.

Solving combinatorial problems on traffic maps, e.g. Vehicle Routing Problems, Taxi Dispatching. Developing real-world GIS applications on Web, PC, PocketPCs, PDAs, and mobile phones Research works & publications -Participated in 2 VNU-HCM Project s, 1 HCMC Project. - Publish over 10 papers in international Conferences & Journals

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Research group

Concrete Structures and Models

Research in : - Graph theory and applications. - Combination theory and applications - Mathematical cryptology. - Computer security. - Cloud computing - Random graph

Leader: Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Dinh Thuc, PhD. ndthuc@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Research works & publications Advisor: -Participated in 3 National/VNU-HCM key projects, 1 NAFOSTED Prof. Tran Dan Thu, PhD. Project, 3 HCMC Projects. - Publish over 20 papers in top international Conferences & Journals Mr. Dat William, PhD, Harvard Members: Tran Thai Son Nguyen Tran Trung Truong Thi My Trang Tran Ngoc Bao PhD Students: Tran Dinh Long (2009-2012) Dang Hai Van (2010-2013) Tran Hong Ngoc (2011-2014)

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Publication
International journal publications 6 12 4 9 1 4 3 1 International conference publications 68 41 43 36 19 14 8 9 National conference publications 10 8 13 1 11 8 13 3

Year 2012 (88) 2011 (64) 2010 (64) 2009 (50) 2008 (47) 2007 (31) 2006 (26) 2005 (17)

National journal publications 12 3 4 4 16 5 2 4

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6 International Collaboration
Japan:
National Institute of Informatics (NII) Toyota technological Institute (TTI) Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

France:
Many Universities in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Toulouse, Orleans,

Korea
KAIST POSTECH Ajou University Chonnam National University

USA:
Portland State University

Australia:
University of Canberra

Canada
University of Monreal, Universit de Trois-rivires
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