An Vo

I am a Senior Research Scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Prior to this, I was a research scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe (now NAVER LABS Europe), France. Previously, I was a System Analyst and Software Engineer in Singapore.

I obtained a PhD in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) from University of Trento and research center Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

My research interests lie in Agentic AI, AI4Code, AI for IT Automation, and NLP topics (e.g. Information Extraction, Semantic Similarity/Relatedness, Textual Entailment, Paraphrasing, Question Answering, Natural Language Interface to Databases, Sentiment Analysis).

Professional Services

1. Member of IBM Invention Development Team (IDT)
2. Member of IBM Open Innovation Community (OIC)
3. Regular Program Committee and Reviewer for:

• Conferences: ARR, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, EACL, iSEC@FDSE, BigDML.
• Journals: Knowledge-based Systems, Computer Speech and Language, Applied Intelligence.
• Workshops: SemEval, Natural Language Processing meets Journalism (NLPJ).
• Session Chair: KDIR 2016.

Honors and Awards

• IBM Tech (San Diego) 2025 Invitee
• IBM Special Accomplishment for Watsonx Code Assistant (WCA) for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed (2023)
• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) (2023)
• IBM Research Accomplishment (2022)
• IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Award (2022)
• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) (2021)
• IBM Research Accomplishment (2020)
• Best Long Paper Award finalist at KDIR 2016
• Google Grant for Google NLP PhD Summit 2015
• The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Grant for NAACL 2015
• ICT Doctoral Grant (2012 - 2016) from University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
• High Distinction Master (2011) in Information Technology, James Cook University (Singapore)