Teaching

2025-Present

DAAN-862: Analytics Programming in Python, AI-879: Machine Vision (Penn State Great Valley, USA)

2024-2025

COSC2531: Programming Fundamentals (RMIT University, Australia)

Public Lectures

Supervision

I am very fortunate to be working with the following group of students and collaborators:

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

Y Huynh (Deakin University, Australia, 2025-Present) - Advancing Image Generation: Unsupervised Learning, Efficient Generation, and Fine-Grained Precision in Diffusion Models

Quang Hung Le (Deakin University, Australia, 2023-Present) - Unified Vision-Language Grounded Learning and Reasoning

Masters Students

Abdulla Aloufi, Mallikanrjun Channappagoudar, Elochukwu Egeonu, Christan Clarke, Renusree Bandaru (Penn State, 2025-Present)

Alumni (Past Advisees, Collaborators)

Ph.D. Students

Xuan Tuyen Tran (Deakin University, Australia, 2022-2025) - Structured Reasoning on Videos.

Nikolaj Normann Holm (Technical University of Denmark, External Adviser, 2024) - Machine Learning for Multimorbidity Clustering. Now a Postdoc at DTU.

Hoang Long Dang (Deakin University, Australia, 2021-2024) - Learning to Reason in Vision. Now a Lecturer at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam.

Masters Students

Hoang Anh Pham (Deakin University, Australia, 2022-2024) - Video Dialog. Now a Senior Applied Scientist at Speechify.

Johnathon Toh (Internship, Deakin University, Australia, 2020-2021) - Visual Reasoning

Ninad Wadekar (Internship, Deakin University, Australia, 2020-2021) - Visual Reasoning

To prospective students: Students at all levels interested in doing research in Machine Learning and Computer Vision are strongly encouraged to reach out to me at thaoyd2@gmail.com for more information.