Long H. Vu           

Long Vu received his Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois. His research interests include Automated Machine Learning, Automated AI for Decision Making, and Machine Learning System Design and Implementation.

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HONOR and AWARD

• 2020: Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation for research and development contribution.
• 2020: Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation for research and development contribution
• 2019: Bronze Medal, Kaggle LANL Earthquake Challenge
• 2017: Major Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation for research and development contribution
• 2012: Vietnam Education Foundation Fellow Association (VEFFA) Scientific Award
• 2011: Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2011, acceptance rate 11%, http://www.percom.org/?q=markweiser)
• 2008: First prize in Computing Habitat Programming Competition, awarded by the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2007: Student Travel Grant awarded by Military Communications Conference. Orlando, Florida, US.
• 2006: Best project (CS598IG: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - graduate level course at UIUC)
• 2004: Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship for Ph.D. study in United States
• 2001: Second prize at Students' Scientific Research Conference, awarded by College of Technology
• 2000: An Exemplary of Vietnam National University (VNU) at Hanoi awarded by the President of VNU for the excellent academic results
• 1999: Diploma of Merit for excellent results in the studies and social activities, offered by the President of College of Technology
• 1999: Scholarship for the best student of Physics Department, Hanoi University of Natural Science, sponsored by HASEBE, Japanese Bank Foundation
• 1998: Scholarship for the best student of Physics Department, Hanoi University of Natural Science, sponsored by HASEBE, Japanese Bank Foundation
  
  
  MEDIA COVERAGE
  
  1. New Scientist Magazine, "'Pre-social network' finds you friends in your hang-outs",( http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228405.900-presocial-network-finds-you-friends-in-your-hangouts.html and http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228403.300-taking-the-chance-out-of-chance-encounters.html)
  
  2. London Daily Mail, "Phone app which tells you where to find a new love or people who share your interests" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065489/Phone-app-tells-new-love-people-share-interests.html)
  
  3. Yahoo News,"'Minority Report' style pre-social network finds you friends in your hangouts" (http://in.news.yahoo.com/minority-report-style-pre-social-network-finds-friends-122735722.html)
  
  4. Crazy Engineers,"Pre-Social Network ‘Jyotish’ Predicts Where You Are Going" (http://www.crazyengineers.com/pre-social-network-jyotish-predicts-where-you-are-going-1356/)
  
  SOFTWARE & TRACE RELEASE
  
  1. PPCrawler Live source code and trace have 5000+ downloads from 50+ countries, http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/downloads. 
  
  2. University of Illinois Movement (UIM) Trace (Wifi and Bluetooth traces of Google Android phones), 1000+ downloads from 40+ countries, http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/downloads.