Hoang Nguyen Hung Van
I am a PhD student at the Computer Science Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. It has been my pleasure to work with Dr.Surdeanu at Computational Language Understanding Lab (CLULAB) My research interests are natural language processing, natural language understanding, machine learning and their application in medical big data.
I work on systems that process and extract meaning from natural language texts such as question answering, information extraction. I focus mostly on interpretable models, i.e., approaches where the computer can explain in human understandable terms why it made a decision. For more details about my work, please visit my github page. For more information about the work at CLULAB, please visit the lab research pagePapers
What does the language of food say about us?
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, 2019. EMNLP.The natural language processing system to extract indicating features in tweets to predict diabetic risk, poverty and education levels in the U.S. The model outperformed previous state-of-the-art model by 4-18% in accuracy.
On indirect effects of Covid-19
In Preparation.The natural language processing system to extract indicating features in tweets to monitor public health in the U.S.
Autocomplete for Medical Text Simplification
In Preparation.The natural language processing system to autocomplete text simplification in medical documents using Transformers-based Neural Networks.
Disambiguation in Concept Extraction in Mental Health
In preparationA medical concept extractor for predicting suicide risk. The model is trained and tested on medical health records.
Experience
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Oh Yeah, I love hiking and creating robots.
This is a small piece of the Obedient -- speech-driven robot. This robot was built on EasyVR, arduino board for Robot. In the video, the robot can only able to turn left, right, reverse, or turn with degree multiple of 90. However, there are more advanced robots with this individual project.
Smoky Mountain, TN - Jun 2019
Smoky Mountain, TN - Jun 2019
Smoky Mountain, TN - Jun 2019
Smoky Mountain, TN - July 2019
