Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name
Khoa Ho Viet Vo
Contact
khoavoho@uark.edu
Language
Vietnamese (native), English (fluent)
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Research Areas

My research interests lie at the junction of deep learning and computer vision. Some representatives of the projects that I have been working and had publications on are image captioning, video dense captioning, and temporal action proposals.

I am also developing my research in 3D vision, in which I specifically work on 3D object reconstructions and tracking.

Education

  • 2020 - now
    University of Arkansas - Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Advised by Asst. Prof. Ngan Le
    2018 - 2021
    Ho Chi Minh University of Science - M.Sc in Computer Science
    Co-advised by Assoc. Prof. Minh-Triet Tran and Asst. Prof. Ngan Le
    Thesis: Agent-Environment Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation
    Thesis Grade: 10.0/10.0
    2014 - 2018
    Ho Chi Minh University of Science - B.Sc. in Honors Program of Information Technology
    Advised by Assoc. Prof. Minh-Triet Tran
    GPA: 8.17/10.0
    Thesis: Image Captioning with Attention Mechanism and Concepts Augmentation
    Thesis Grade: 10.0/10.0

Work Experience

  • 2020 - now
    Graduate Research Assistant at University of Arkansas
    :round_pushpin:Fayetteville, AR, USA
    Research on videos understanding topics i.e. temporal action proposal, video dense captioning
    Work on project in 3D objects reconstruction
    10/2019 -
    03/2020
    Research Internship at National Informatics Institute
    :round_pushpin:Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
    Research under the advisory of Prof. Akihiro Sugimoto
    Initiate research on temporal action proposals in untrimmed videos
    2018 - 2020
    Research Fellow at Ho Chi Minh University of Science
    :round_pushpin:District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Research on anomaly detections in traffic surveillance
    06/2017 -
    10/2017
    Research Internship at Ho Chi Minh University of Science
    :round_pushpin:District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Research on abnormal internet traffic detection using machine learning methods

Honors and Awards

  • Fellowships
    Graduate Fellowship from Rodger S. Kline Chair, CSCE Department, University of Arkansas (Spring 2023).
    W.R. Thomas Endowed Graduate Fellowship (Fall 2022).
    Reginald R. 'Barney' & Jameson A. Baxter Graduate Fellowship (Spring 2022).
    Scholarships
    Vietnam Domestic Master/PhD Scholarship of Vingroup Innovation Foundation (2019).
    Awards
    1st prize in Information Technology, Eureka, Vietnam Nation-wide Awards for Student Scientific Research 2018.
    Best Paper Award at The 9th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (Dec. 2018, Da Nang, Vietnam).
    8th place in NVIDIA AI City Challenge 2019 Track 3 - Anomaly detection.

Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2022
    Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning (CSCE5563)
    Introduction to deep learning for graduate students
    Summer 2021
    Teaching Assistant for NACME-Google Summer Bootcamp in Applied Machine Learning Intensive
    Entry-level introduction to machine learning
    Aims to expose under-represented minority (URM) undergraduate students to advanced concepts and applications in AI/ML.
    Summer 2021
    Teach Assistant for Arkansas Summer Research Institute
    Introduction to deep learning and its application in video understanding

Computer Skills

  • Programming languages: Python, C++, Matlab.
  • Frameworks: Pytorch, Tensorflow, OpenCV, Open3D, Numpy etc.

Other Interests

I love stand up paddling, traveling and watching movies with my family.