About me
Hi! I’m Duong, a Master student in Computer Science at VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center, VinUniversity (Cohort 2026).
Contact: vuhoang.thduong@gmail.com / duong.vht@vinuni.edu.vn
Research Interests
- Affective computing
- Digital phenotyping
- Computational psychiatry
- Human-centered AI
- Multimodal data analysis
News
[Feb. 2026] I started my MSc. in Computer Science at VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center, VinUniversity, with fully-funded scholarship.
[Nov. 2025] I joined the Neuroplasticity tracking during intervention for depression and anxiety: a longitudinal, cognitive-guided digital phenotyping study, funded by IBRO x Wellcome (NCAMH 2025), led by Prof. Huong Ha (International University, Vietnam). The project is selected as 1 of 12 awardees from 133 global applications, received 60,000 USD to conduct a 9-month pilot intervention study on Vietnamese population.
[Oct. 2025] I joined College of Engineering & Computer Science, VinUniversity as a Research Assistant in the Computer Vision and Medical AI Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Hieu Pham.
[Apr. 2025] I joined LIP6, UMR 7606, CNRS, Sorbonne University as a Research Assistant in the LFI Team, under the supervision of Prof. Christophe MARSALA. My research focused on developing Entropic Regularization schemes for learning fuzzy similarity measures based on the d-Choquet integral. I specialized in enhancing the stability and interpretability of fuzzy KNN models by analyzing complex feature interactions and relevance. A key part of my work involves introducing a novel computational method for the Choquet integral specifically designed to visualize and study gradient descent dynamics, providing deeper insights into how fuzzy capacities are learned and optimized in classification tasks.
[Dec. 2024] I joined Paris Brain Institute as a Research Assistant in the Primary Cerebral Lymphoma Team, part of the Brain tumor heterogeneity, immunity and therapy (BRIGHT), under the supervision of Clinician, MD, PhD, PH. Agustí ALENTORN. I developed diffusion-based neural style transfer methods for histopathology images, adapting Stable Diffusion models to translate tumor staining styles while preserving tissue structure, and evaluated results for clinical realism and consistency.
Publications
- Chavan, V., Cenaj, A., Shen, S., Bar, A., Binwani, S., Del Becaro, T., Funk, M., Greschner, L., Hung, R., Klein, S., Kleiner, R., Krause, S., Olbrych, S., Parmar, V., Sarafraz, J., Soroko, D., Withanage Don, D., Zhou, C., Vu, H. T. D., Semnani, P., Weinhardt, D., Andre, E., Krüger, J., & Fresquet, X. (2025). Feeling machines: Ethics, culture, and the rise of emotional AI. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12437
Awards
- [Nov. 2020] National Creative Youth Award 2020; issued by Communist Youth Union Central Committee.
- [Nov. 2019] Awarded 3rd prize in Junior Technological Intervention; by Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA).