Professor

Room 550
CISE Building
Email: mythai[at]cise.ufl.edu

Dr. My T. Thai is a UF Research Foundation Professor of Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering and Associate Director of Nelms Institute for the Connected World at the University of Florida. Dr. Thai has extensive expertise in trustworthy AI, billion-scale data mining, and optimization, especially for complex graph data with applications to blockchain, social media, critical networking infrastructure, cybersecurity, and healthcare. The results of her work have led to 7 books and 300+ publications in leading academic journals and conferences, including 2014 IEEE MSN Best Paper Award, 2017 IEEE ICDM Best Papers Award, 2018 IEEE/ACM ASONAM Best Paper Runner Up, and 2023 AAAI Distinguished Paper Award.

In 2009, Dr. Thai was awarded the Young Investigator (YIP) from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and in 2010, she won the NSF CAREER Award. She was also awarded the UF Research Foundation Professorship in 2016. Dr. Thai is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Thai has engaged in many professional activities, including being TPC-chairs of many IEEE international conferences and on the editorial board of several journals. She is presently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO) journal. She is a book series editor of Springer Optimization and its Application.

Ph.D. Student

Nhat X. Hoang received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City in September 2022. He has been pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. My T. Thai at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida since Fall 2023. His research interests lies in deep learning, explainable AI and vision-language learning.

Ph.D. Student

Email: hoang.ngo[at]ufl.edu

Hoang M. Ngo received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University in May of 2020. He has been pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. My T. Thai at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida since Summer 2022. His research interests include optimization algorithms and quantum computing.

Ph.D. Student

Email: t.jeter[at]ufl.edu

Tre’ R. Jeter received both of his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Claflin University in April of 2021. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. under Dr. My T. Thai and has been a student at the University of Florida since the Fall of 2021. His research interest lies at the intersection of security and privacy in AI, specifically in providing a true data privacy guarantee in Federated Learning.

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: minhvu[at]ufl.edu

Minh N. Vu received the B.Eng. degree in electronics and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. His research interest are information theory, wireless communications and approximation algorithms.

• Raed Alharbi, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, College of Computing and Informatics, Saudi Electronic University)
• Truc Nguyen, Ph.D. (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
• Lan Nguyen, Ph.D. (Facebook)
• J. David Smith, Ph.D. (Doseform)
• Tianyi Pan, Ph.D. (Google)
• Huiling Zhang, Ph.D. (Google; MathWorks)
• Alan Kuhnle, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Florida State University)
• Xiang Li, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University)
• Md Abdul Alim, Ph.D. (Optym)
• Huiyuan Zhang, Ph.D. (Amazon; Optym)
• Subhankar Mishra, Ph.D. (Oak Ridge National Lab)
• Dzung T Nguyen, Ph.D. (Microsoft)
• Nam P Nguyen, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Towson University)
• Yilin Shen, Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist, Samsung R&D Center)
• Thang N Dinh, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Sindhura Tokala
• Ying Xuan, Ph.D. (Ebay; IBM Research)
• Ravi Tiwari, Ph.D. (Ebay)
• Incheol Shin, Ph.D. (Mokpo National University, Korea)
• Yu-Song Syu
• Ning Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison; NEC Research Lab)

• Dr. Jung Taek Seo (Institute of Electrical and Telecommunication Research, Korea)
• Dr. Taekyoung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea)
• Dr. Subhankar Mishra (National Institute of Science Education and Research, India) – Fulbright Fellow 2022