Scholar
Phuong-Anh (Kem) Nguyen-Le
Google Scholar ID: v93nLsgAAAAJ
University of Maryland, College Park
Citations & Impact
Citations
6
H-index
1
i10-index
0
Publications
5
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Presenting the working paper 'Scaling Interactional Sociolinguistics: An LLM-Facilitated Analysis of Vietnamese Code-Mixing on Threads.net' at the CALD-AI Workshop; 'The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading' accepted for publication at CHI 2025; Volunteered at SIGIR 2024; First time attending ICWSM 2024; Became the first ML Foundations Lead Instructor for Break Through Tech AI at UMD.
Research Experience
- Worked as a teacher and an apprentice software developer in Vietnam. Helped establish UMD as an Instructional Hub to run ML Foundations training for Break Through Tech AI, and teaches Data Science Techniques in INFO at UMD.
Education
- Currently a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College of Information, advised by Dr. Wei Ai, who is jointly appointed in the College of Information and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Graduated from Providence College with a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Econometrics, and a minor in Math, advised by Dr. Leo Kahane.
Background
- Research interests include Teacher-AI Cognitive Alignment and Cultural Computing. Specifically, exploring how to align AI behavior with teachers' preferences, real sequential decision-making, and thought processes; and how to encode cultural knowledge in AI to enhance downstream tasks for linguistically and culturally diverse populations, especially speakers of low-resourced languages like Vietnamese.
Miscellany
- Participated in Hackathons throughout high school and college. Enjoys mentoring undergrads in hacks and side projects.
