Short Bio

Personally, I enjoy having myself surrounded by enthusiastic people - which is why I regularly spend time on various types of events, allowing myself to broaden my connections with passionated people in related fields and non-related fields. I have always found myself having learnt something new-and-interesting besides being fully re-charged surrounding by other energetic youths... One of the reasons why I decided to aim for a Ph.D. degree is simple: to be immersed by the young brilliant, arduous, engaging and ceaselessly-seeking-for-ideas-or-innovations people.

Note: This page is really rarely updated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some Projects' descriptions

Awards

• 2020   VEF 2.0 Program recommended candidate, who passed 2 interview/review rounds with leading Vietnamese academics, most of whom are Ph.D. from top U.S. graduate schools and professors
• 2020   Top 20 over 400 selected congressmen at the 3rd National Vietnam Youth Talent Congress
• 2020   Incentive award for the 22nd Eureka Science Research Student, in Biomedical
• 2020   Support fund for young talent – HCMC
• 2020   Vinif domestic Post-Graduate Scholarship Program for MS
• 2020   Incentive prize – Honda YES Award 2020
• 2020   1st Prize at the 3rd Innovation contest on “Green Traffic” 2020, an application using reinforcement learning for automatic and efficient traffic light controller
• 2020   1st Prize at Shecodes Hackathon 2020 – HCMC
• 2020   3rd Prize at The AI Challenge HCMC for Multi-Class Multi-Movement Vehicle Counting
• 2020   Most favorite application at The AI Challenge HCMC 2020 for innovation contest on AI application, an application using VR for STEM education
• 2020   Ranked 2nd in Task 1 and 1st in Task 2, the Medico Task, MediaEval 2020
• 2020   Ranked 4th at The Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation (The DAVIS Challenge)
• 2020   Ranked 5th at Traffic anomaly detection track (track 4, The AI City Challenge Workshop)
• 2019   Ranked 1st at Eyes and Ears Challenge (MediaEval Workshop)
• 2019, 2020  Vallet – RVN Scholarship for excellent students in doing research 2019, 2020
• 2019   National award for female students with high achievements in STEM
• 2019   Ho Chi Minh City award for Student with high achievements in AI research
• 2018, 2020  Scholarship for top 3 students of the APCS, intake 2016
• 2017   Panasonic scholarship award for excellence 2017
• 2016- 2020  Excellent scholarship receiver every semester
• 2016   2nd Prize – SJTU International Science Competition held by 上海交通大学 (Shanghai Jiao Tong) University
• 2016-2020  Remain stable at TOP 10 highest GPA students at the Advanced Program in Computer Science, intake 2016, for every single academic year as well as every single academic term

Publications

• 2022 DSLNet: Deep Supervision Learning for Lung Nodule Detection and Segmentation; Miccai 2022; Tan-Cong Nguyen, Tien-Phat Nguyen, Gia-Han Diep, Thao Dao, Ngoc Ho, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran



• 2022 DAM-AL: Dilated Attention Mechanism with Attention Loss for 3D Infant Brain Image Segmentation (SAC 2022); Dinh-Hieu Hoang, Gia-Han Diep, Minh-Triet Tran, Ngan Le



• 2021 CCBANet: Cascading Context and Balancing Attention for Polyp Segmentation Network (MICCAI 2021); Tan-Cong Nguyen*, Tien-Phat Nguyen*, Gia-Han Diep*, Anh-Huy Tran-Dinh, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran (Note: * denotes equal contribution)



• 2021 Point-Unet: A Context-aware Point-based Neural Network for Volumetric Segmentation (MICCAI 2021); Ngoc-Vuong Ho, Tan Nguyen, Binh-Son Hua, Gia-Han Diep, Ngan Le



• HCMUS at Medico Automatic Polyp Segmentation Task 2020: PraNet and ResUnet++ for Polyps Segmentation; Mediaeval 2020 workshop, medico multimedia task. Tien-Phat Nguyen*, Tan-Cong Nguyen*, Gia-Han Diep*, Minh-Quan Le, Hoang-Phuc Nguyen-Dinh, Hai-Dang Nguyen and Minh-Triet Tran.
(* equal contribution)

@inproceedings{Medico,   author = {Tien-Phat Nguyen and Tan-Cong Nguyen and Gia-Han Diep and Minh-Quan Le and Hoang-Phuc Nguyen-Dinh and Hai-Dang Nguyen and Minh-Triet Tran},   title = {{HCMUS at Medico Automatic Polyp Segmentation Task 2020: PraNet and ResUnet++ for Polyps Segmentation}},   booktitle = {MediaEval2020},   year = {2020},   note = {* equal contribution}, }




• Narrow Band Active Contour Attention Model for Imbalanced-Class and Weak Boundary in Medical Segmentation; IEEE TIP 2020 (journal); Ngan Le, Khoa Luu, Bui Toan, Kashu Yamazaki, Gia-Han Diep, Than Tran, Minh-Triet Tran


@inproceedings{TIP2020,   author = {Ngan Le, Khoa Luu, Bui Toan, Kashu Yamazaki, Gia-Han Diep, Than Tran, Minh-Triet Tran},   title = {{Narrow Band Active Contour Attention Model for Imbalanced-Class and Weak Boundary in Medical Segmentation}},   booktitle = {IEEE TIP},   year = {2020}, }




• Generating and selecting resilient and maintainable locators for Web automated testing; STVR 2020 (journal); Vu Nguyen, Thanh To, Gia-Han Diep
Note: This was the first research work I had done relating to Artificial Intelligent

@inproceedings{STVR2020,   author = {Vu Nguyen, Thanh To, Gia-Han Diep},   title = {{Generating and selecting resilient and maintainable locators for Web automated testing}},   booktitle = {STVR},   year = {2020}, }




• SiVOS: Simulated Interactive Video Object Segmentation; The 2020 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation - CVPR Workshops, 2020 (The Unsupervised task, 4th place) Tan-Cong Nguyen †, Gia-Han Diep †, Hung V. Tran and Minh-Triet Tran;
(† equal contribution)

@inproceedings{SiVOS,   author = {Tan-Cong Nguyen and Gia-Han Diep and Hung V. Tran and Minh-Triet Tran},   title = {{SiVOS: Simulated Interactive Video Object Segmentation}},   booktitle = {CVPRW},   year = {2020},   note = {† equal contribution}, }




• iTASK - Intelligent Traffic Analysis Software Kit; AI City Challenge Workshop, CVPR, 2020 (10th place on Track 1 and 26th place on Track 2 and 5th place on Track 4); Minh-Triet Tran, Tam V. Nguyen, Trung-Hieu Hoang, Trung-Nghia Le, Khac-Tuan Nguyen, Dat-Thanh Dinh, ..., Gia-Han Diep, Minh Do;
Note: I worked on task 4 (the last task - ranked 5th) ~ the anomaly detection using GAN.


• Gia-Han Diep, Duc-Tuan Luu, Son-Thanh Tran-Nguyen and Minh-Triet Tran. HCMUS at Eyes and Ears Together 2019: Entity Localization with Guided Word Embedding and Human Pose Estimation approach; MediaEval 2019 Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 27-30, 2019. (Eyes and Ears Together Task, 1st place)


@inproceedings{HCMUSEnEMediaEval2019,   author = {Gia-Han Diep, Duc-Tuan Luu, Son-Thanh Tran-Nguyen and Minh-Triet Tran.},   title = {{HCMUS at Eyes and Ears Together 2019: Entity Localization with Guided Word Embedding and Human Pose Estimation approach}},   booktitle = {MediaEval},   year = {2019}, }




• Monocular Image Based 3D Model Retrieval; 12th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 3DOR 2019, Genoa, Italy, May 5-6, 2019. Eurographics Association 2019, ISBN 978-3-03868-077-2 , ISSN 1997-0471, pp. 103-110.; Li, Wenhui et. al.
Note: Participants of Team HCMUS-Junior: The-Anh Vu-Le, Huy-Hoang Chung-Nguyen, Gia-Han Diep, Duc-Tuan Luu, Son-Thanh Tran-Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran. Additional authors: organizers and other team members. Our method is named (by the organizers) as CLA, our runs ranked both highest and second-highest F-score, and in top 10 teams.

@inproceedings{MIDOR3,   author = {Li, Wenhui and Liu, Anan and Nie, Weizhi and Song, Dan and Li, Yuqian and Wang, Weijie and Xiang, Shu and Zhou, Heyu and Bui, Ngoc-Minh and Cen, Yunchi and Chen, Zenian and Chung-Nguyen, Huy-Hoang and Diep, Gia-Han and Do, Trong-Le and Doubrovski, Eugeni L. and Duong, Anh-Duc and Geraedts, Jo M. P. and Guo, Haobin and Hoang, Trung-Hieu and Li, Yichen and Liu, Xing and Liu, Zishun and Luu, Duc-Tuan and Ma, Yunsheng and Nguyen, Vinh-Tiep and Nie, Jie and Ren, Tongwei and Tran, Mai-Khiem and Tran-Nguyen, Son-Thanh and Tran, Minh-Triet and Vu-Le, The-Anh and Wang, Charlie C. L. and Wang, Shijie and Wu, Gangshan and Yang, Caifei and Yuan, Meng and Zhai, Hao and Zhang, Ao and Zhang, Fan and Zhao, Sicheng},   title = {{Monocular Image Based 3D Model Retrieval}},   booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval},   year = {2020}, }




• Automatic translation from Nom Vietnamese to Latin Vietnamese (Chuyển tự tự động từ chữ Nôm sang chữ Quốc ngữ); 100-year Nôm-Vietnamese Colloquium (Hội thảo 100 năm chữ Quốc Ngữ);Đinh Điền, Nguyễn Thị Kim Phượng, Diệp Gia Hân, Trần Nguyễn Sơn Thanh
Note: This is my chosen project for the introduction to NLP course, which we submitted at the 100-year Nôm-Vietnamese Colloquium. The method used here is based on the statistical machine translation related to the Makov Chain. And for reference, Nôm-Vietnamese is the Chinese-like character Vietnamese used in the old days...)

@inproceedings{dghan_nlp,   author = {Đinh Điền, Nguyễn Thị Kim Phượng, Diệp Gia Hân, Trần Nguyễn Sơn Thanh},   title = {{Chuyển tự tự động từ chữ Nôm sang chữ Quốc ngữ}},   booktitle = {Hội thảo 100 năm chữ Quốc Ngữ},   year = {2019},   note = {this is an in class project}, }

ACTIVITIES

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• 2021 (Expected – March) Representative speaker – will present one of our work at the first “Fellow neuroscientists gathering” in Vietnam, held in Fulbright University Vietnam.
• 2021 Consultant at STEAM Club at High School for the Gifted, VNU-HCM
• 2020 Representative speaker of the HCMUS Team to present our work at CVPRW 2020 (The DAVIS Challenge – Unsupervised task), MediaEval 2020 (Medico task)
• 2020 Secretary at the 3rd National Vietnam Youth Talent Congress’s forum
• 2019 Attended School of Electrical Engineering Camp (in August) and attended School of Computing Camp (in January) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• 2020 Passed 1st round of the Honda Yes Award, expected to attend the 2nd round in Dec. 2020
• 2020 Teacher assistance for CM101 class (Communication Management)
• 2020 Mentor of class android development with App Inventor (at Robotics-IOT Club)
• 2020 Representative student as ‘advisors for enrolling student’ for faculty of IT at HCMUS
• 2020 Representative student speech at graduation day, as well as for teacher day at HCMUS
• 2020 Help to run laboratory demo for faculty of IT – HCMUS, at ‘a day as CS student’ event
• 2020 AI application demo for The AI Challenge day 2020
• 2019 TOP 189 application at Start-up innovation challenge – ‘Lead the change 2019’
• 2019 Finished the Advanced Machine Learning Class at VIetAi, Fresher Program at VNG-GSN
• 2018-2019 Founder of the Tutoring Club for APCS, aiding other students in studying
• 2017 2nd Prize at the 3rd The Amazing Race organized by Banking University HCMC, for better understanding Vietnamese traditional trade village.
• 2017-2018 Member of Kc97ble free contest, organize weekly competitive programming contests
• 2011-2018 Founder of 123 Patin Club (nonprofit), teaching young children inline roller skating
• 2013-2015 Core member at Dumbledore English Chamber (nonprofit) for the 1st&2nd term of office
• 2016-2019 Help to organize yearly event at the Lutheran Church in Vietnam – Joy congregation, aiming to create an amiable atmosphere as well as connect young children in the area
• 2013-2016 Term member of various nonprofit organization such as Viet Children’s Aegis or Project Sugar, helping to teach English and Maths or organize yearly events for children at the orphanages
• 2013-2020 Join different clubs or participate in multiple events at school and university e.g. member of the Harmonica, English Speaking, Unnamed Glee Club, welcoming enrolling students events, etc.

Collaborators

Professor Minh-Triet Tran (Prof., University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam)
Professor Thi Hoang Ngan Le (Prof., University of Arkansas)
Bro. Tan-Cong Nguyen

Acknowledgements