MSc. Tam T.

Le
(Vietnamese name: L Thanh Tm)
Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant Department of Computer Vision & Robotics Faculty of Information Technology University of Science, Vietnam National University HCMC 227 Nguyen Van Cu Str., Dist. 5, HCMC, Vietnam Website: http://www.fit.hcmus.edu.vn

P ER SON A L I N FO R M A TI 0 N
Interesting research fields: Computer vision: o Object categorization, recognition and detection. o Image representation, sparse coding for feature descriptor. Machine learning: o Kernel methods, kernel design. o Learning by optimization methods. Phone: (+84) 938.144.808 Email: lttam@fit.hcmus.edu.vn or lttam.vn@gmail.com Homepage: http://www.fit.hcmus.edu.vn/~lttam Research page: http://sites.google.com/site/lttamvn/

ED U CA TI ON A L P R O FI LE
Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Faculty of Information Techonology, University of Science, VNU-HCMC, 2008 2011 (direct transfer) o GPA: 8.64/10 (GPA for courses: 8.26/10 & Thesis: 9.4/10) (Rank: 1/100) o The master thesiss title is Image categorization using kernel methods Defense marks: 9.4/10 Bachelor of Science degree in the honor program of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, VNU-HCMC, 2004 2008 o GPA : 8.55/10 (Rank: 3/36) o GPA(only Computer Science courses) : 9.11/10

RESEARCH EX P ER I EN CE
Internship in National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2010 January, 2011 o Project: Image categorization using kernel methods o Supervisors: Professor Akihiro Sugimoto, PhD Yousun Kang Internship in Toyota Technological Institute of Nagoya, Japan, April June, 2009 o Project: Autonomous driving system (Module: Real-time traffic signs classification). o Supervisors : Professor Seiichi Mita, PhD Son T. Tran.

TEA C H I N G EX P ER I EN C E
Teaching assistant at University of Science, VNU-HCMC, 2008 present. Introduction to Optimization Computer Graphics Computational Structures Statistics and Applications in Computer Science Graph Theory Data Structure

SPECIAL COURSES & SUM M ER SCHOOL

Achieving the scholarship to participate Machine Learning Summer School (in MLSS series), Singapore, June 2011. Introduction to Optimization, L. El Ghaoui (UC Bekerley), 2010 Optimization & Kernel Method, Marco Cuturi (Priceton University), 2010 Machine Learning, David McAllister, Greg Shakhnarovich, Nathan Srebro, Karen Livescu, Ambuj Tewari (Toyota Technology Institute, Chicago), 2009 Digital Signal Processing Summer School, Minh N. Do (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Douglas Jones (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Truong Q. Nguyen (University of California, San Diego), Trac D. Tran (The John Hopkins University), Vietnam, 2008.

SKILLS
Strong background in Mathematics (Probability, Linear Algebra) Programming language: C/C++/C#, Matlab

P U B L I CA TI ON International Conference
Tam T. Le, Yousun Kang, Akihiro Sugimoto, Son T. Tran, Thuc D. Nguyen, Hierarchical Spatial Matching Kernel for Image Categorization, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), LNCS 6753, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 2011. (accepted) Tam T. Le, Son T. Tran, Seiichi Mita, Thuc D. Nguyen, Realtime Traffic Sign Detection Using Color and Shape-Based Features, The 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, LNAI 5991, Hue, Vietnam, 2010. Le Thanh Tam, Tran Thai Son, Seiichi Mita, Realtime Traffic Sign Dectection and Classification using SVM, ICTFIT, HCMC, Vietnam, 2009 (in Vietnamese).

Dom estic Conference

REFER EN CES
Prof. Duong Nguyen Vu Director of John von Neumann Institute - Vietnam National University - HCMC Email: vu.duong@jvn.edu.vn or vu.duong@eurocontrol.int GSM : +84 902.831.958 or +33 617.902.872

Associate Prof. Nguyen Dinh Thuc Vice Dean of Faculty of Information Technology University of Science, Vietnam National University - HCMC 227 Nguyen Van Cu Street, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tel: (+84) 903339944 Email: ndthuc@fit.hcmus.edu.vn Prof. Seiichi Mita Head of Information and Communication Lab Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tempaku ku, Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan. Tel: 81-52-8091823 Fax: 81-52-8091822 Email : smita@toyota-ti.ac.jp Associate Prof. Minh N. Do Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: 115 Coordinated Science Laboratory Tel: (217) 244-4782 Fax: (217) 244-1642 Email: minhdo@illinois.edu