Hung K. Chau

HUNG K. CHAU

Ph.D. Student

Department of Informatics and Networked Systems

School of Computing and Information

University of Pittsburgh

Information Sciences Bldg

135 N Bellefield Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

phone: +1 (412) 552-3055

e-mail: hkc6 (at) pitt.edu

My CV

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh. I received my Master and Bachelor degrees from Department of Computer Science, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. I am very interested in and passionate about applying Machine Learning to human learning, Text Mining in Education, Educational Data Mining, Semantic Information Retrieval, and Personalized Recommendation. I am working at the Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab (PAWS). My advisor is Dr. Peter Brusilovsky. Currently, I have been taking part in the project Open Corpus Personalized Learning. I have also been working with and being mentored by Dr. Zach Pardos since Spring 2018.

Research interests

Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Educational Data Mining and Pattern Discovery
Natural Language Processing (Knowledge Extraction and Representation)
Personalized Recommendation

Education

Aug. 2016 - Present	Ph.D., Information Science Program, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nov. 2011 - Jan. 2015	M.S., Computer Science, University of Information Technology,VNU-HCM, HCM, Vietnam.
Sep. 2006 - Jan. 2011	B.S., Computer Science, University of Information Technology,VNU-HCM, HCM, Vietnam.

Projects and Publications

Prediction and Recommendation
Zachary Pardos, Hung Chau, Marshall Zhao, Data-Assistive Course-to-Course Articulation Using Machine Translation, Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S) June 24-25, 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA [Full Research Paper] [Slides] *Best Paper Award*

Hung Chau, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Peter Brusilovsky, Course-Adaptive Content Recommender For Course Authoring, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL), September 06-09, 2018, Leeds, UK. [Full Research Paper]

Hung Chau, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Peter Brusilovsky, Learning Content Recommender System for Instructors of Programming Courses, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), June 27-30, 2018, London, UK. [Poster Paper]

Hung Chau, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Peter Brusilovsky, Content Wizard: Concept-Based Recommender System for Instructors of Programming Courses, Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), July 09-12, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia. [Full Paper] [Slides]

Hung Chau, Ang Li and Yu-Ru Lin, Predicting Students Performance Based on Their Reading Behaviors, Online Proceedings of SBP-BRiMS 2017, July 05-8, 2017, Washington DC, USA. [Short Paper] [Poster]
Researching and Developing the Semantic-based Solution for Learning Resources Management
Nhon V. Do, TruongAn PhamNguyen, Hung Chau, ThanhThuong T. Huynh, Improved semantic representation and search techniques in a document retrieval system design, Journal of Advances in Information Technology, Volume 6, No. 3, August, 2015, USA. [Paper]
Building Systems That Support Studying Advanced Mathematics in University
Nhon Do Van, Hung Chau, Van Ho Long, An Intelligent Educational Software for Automatic Problem Solving in Linear Algebra, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2011), August 3 - 5, 2011, Singapore. [Paper]

Working experience

Zillow Group, Seattle, USA
Machine Learning Engineer: Applied Deep Learning techniques and regular expressions to detect customers’ personal identifiable information to protect their privacy in a big data setting
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming, Interactive System Design, and Algorithm Designs
University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University, HCM, Vietnam
Lecturer: Introduction to Programming and Data Structure & Algorithm classes

Teaching Assistant: Object Oriented Programming, Algorithm Analasis and Design, Artificial Intelligence classes
LAC VIET Computing Corporation, Vietnam
Mobile Application Developer: English Vietnamese Dictionary - Chinese Vietnamese Dictionary - Japanese Vietnamese Dictionary - French Vietnamese Dictionary - Korean Vietnamese Dictionary - Lac Viet Reader - Words Usage Practice

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