I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, where I work with Duncan Watts at the Computational Social Science Lab.
I am broadly interested in developing computational and human-in-the-loop methods to study individual and collective human behavior. Examples of such behavior include moral decision-making and judgment, stance toward socially significant issues, and commonsense knowledge and reasoning. The tools to study them are grounded in machine learning, network science, natural language processing, social psychology and crowdsourcing.
Prior to joining Penn I was an M.Phil. student at the Computational Media Lab, Australian National University where I was jointly advised by Lexing Xie (School of Computing) and Colin Klein (School of Philosophy). My thesis presents a series of large-scale studies of online discussions to uncover popular topics of contemporary moral concern, and characterize how moral dilemmas are framed and how they are perceived and judged by internet users. My research was also supported by the Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge at ANU.
Prior to that I pursued a B.S. in computer science at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Charl Ras at the School of Mathematics and Statistics on designing resilient network embeddings.
I also have a special interest in mathematical optimization, especially in the context of machine learning. I have collaborated with Nguyen Tran at the School of Computer Science, the University of Sydney, on designing personalized and communication-efficient algorithms for federated learning.
I publish under my official Vietnamese name, Tuan Dung Nguyen.
News
[2023-12-09] We have a paper accepted to AAAI 2024 titled On Partial Optimal Transport: Revising the Infeasibility of Sinkhorn and Efficient Gradient Methods. This is my joint work with Anh Duc Nguyen (NUS), Quang M. Nguyen (MIT), Hoang H. Nguyen (Georgia Tech) and Lam M. Nguyen (IBM).
[2023-11-16] Our new paper, titled Measuring Moral Dimensions in Social Media with Mformer, is accepted to ICWSM 2024.
[2023-09-12] We release a new language model for astronomical research called AstroLLaMA. Joint work with Yuan-Sen Ting and Jo Ciuca at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and many others at UniverseTBD. A short technical report can be found here.
[2023-03-16] This fall I am excited to be joining the University of Pennsylvania as a Ph.D. candidate in computer and information science!
[2022-11-10] I made a YouTube channel! The first video is a lecture on optimal transport I gave to the Advanced ML class at ANU. The slides are here.
[2022-05-12] I gave a talk on our ICWSM 2022 paper at the ANU’s AI, ML and Friends seminar. The slides can be found here. There’s also a press coverage by ANU here.
[2022-03-16] Our paper, Mapping Topics in 100,000 Real-life Moral Dilemmas, is accepted to ICWSM 2022! The code can be found here and data here.
[2021-11-30] I am honored to attend the International School in Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Computer Science (ISAAC 2021) this december at Monash University.
[2021-04-27] I will be volunteering at the ICWSM-2021 conference.
[2021-04-19] I will be volunteering at the AIES-2021 conference. Thanks HMI for your invitation.
[2021-04-16] I am honored to be selected to the Cornell, Maryland and Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS-21).
[2020-12-15] Check out our pre-print DONE: Distributed Newton-type Method for Federated Edge Learning on arXiv.
[2020-10-26] Our work, titled Personalized Federated Learning with Moreau Envelopes, is accepted to NeurIPS 2020. The code can be found here.
[2020-05-26] Our paper, Federated Learning with Proximal Stochastic Variance Reduced Gradient Algorithms, is accepted to ICPP 2020.