Supervision & Mentoring

Supervision & research mentoring

I actively mentor and supervise students across mathematical statistics and AI for science, from bachelor honours theses to PhD co-supervision, in Australia, France, Vietnam, and Singapore. Students, topics, and co-supervisors are named below.

Supervision

Formal supervision of PhD, master, and bachelor honours theses and capstone projects, with co-supervisors and students named below.

04/2026-09/2026 · Funded research supervision: "Uncertainty Quantification and Scalable Methods for Large Language Models and Multimodal Data Fusion"

Chief Investigator: Dr TrungTin Nguyen. Co-Investigators: Professor Chris Drovandi, Professor Richi Nayak, and Dr Md Abul Bashar. Research Assistant: Mr Thanh Long (Oliver) Vu. Supported by DataSparks, the QUT Centre for Data Science early-career researcher grant scheme. Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

2026- · PhD thesis: "Modèles génératifs frugaux multimodaux pour les données industrielles" (Frugal multimodal generative models for industrial data)

Associate supervisor with Professor Faïcel Chamroukhi. PhD student: Mr Rayen Ben Masseoud. Université Paris-Saclay, France.

08/2025- · PhD thesis: "Robust Bayesian Inference for Differential Equation Models with Applications in Biology"

Associate supervisor with Professor Christopher Drovandi. PhD student: Ms Jiamin Xu. Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

07/2025- · Bachelor honours thesis: "Adaptive Multivariate Density Estimation for Clustering with Gaussian Mixtures"

Co-supervisor with Professor Dang Duc Trong. Student (Honours Program in Mathematics and Computer Science): Mr Phi Khoa Nguyen. University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: Master 2 "Research and Innovation" in Applied and Pure Mathematics, Université de Toulouse, France.

02-06/2025 · Data Science Capstone Project 2B (DATA7903), academic supervision and assessment

Four students: Ms Ruth Simtim Rebecca, Mr Patrick Cashman, Mr Ishan Chandrashekhar Patle, and Mr Venkatesh Athikulam Muthusamy. Responsible professor: Dr Nan Ye. Postgraduate coursework, The University of Queensland, Australia.

09/2024- · Master thesis: "Model-Based Clustering with Variable Selection for Missing Data"

Co-supervisor with Dr Van Ha Hoang. Master student: Mr Binh H. Ho. University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: PhD in Statistics (scholarship) at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, with Professor Lizhen Lin.

09/2024- · Bachelor honours thesis: "Revisiting Model Selection and Parameter Estimation for Gaussian-gated Gaussian Mixture of Experts Using Dendrograms of Mixing Measures"

Co-supervisor with Professor Dang Duc Trong. Student (Honours Program in Mathematics and Computer Science): Mr Tuan Thai. University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (MATHS-DISC) at Università degli Studi di Verona (Italy) and Université Grenoble Alpes (France).

09/2024- · Bachelor honours thesis: "Model Selection in Mixture of Experts Models via Penalized Likelihood Approach"

Co-supervisor with Professor Dang Duc Trong. Student (Honours Program in Mathematics and Computer Science): Mr Son Hai Nguyen. University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: Franco-Vietnamese Master in Applied Mathematics (Academic Merit Scholarship), with Dr Thomas Bonis (Université Gustave Eiffel), Professor Pham Ngoc Thanh Mai (Sorbonne Paris Nord), and Professor Tran Viet Chi (Centre Inria de l'Université de Lille), France.

09/2024- · Bachelor honours thesis: "Revisiting and Empirical Validation of the Convergence Rates of Variational Posterior Distributions"

Co-supervisor with Professor Dang Duc Trong. Student (Honours Program in Mathematics and Computer Science): Mr Tien Dung Do. University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: Franco-Vietnamese Master in Applied Mathematics (Academic Merit Scholarship), with Professor Olivier Ley and Dr Othmane Jerhaoui (IRMAR, INSA de Rennes), France.

07-11/2024 · Data Science Capstone Project 1 (DATA7901), academic supervision and assessment

Four students: Ms Ruth Simtim Rebecca, Mr Patrick Cashman, Mr Ishan Chandrashekhar Patle, and Mr Venkatesh Athikulam Muthusamy. Responsible professor: Dr Slava Vaisman. Postgraduate coursework, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Research mentoring

Informal research mentoring of motivated students on focused projects, several of whom have gone on to graduate study abroad.

09/2024- · Research mentoring: "Model-Based Clustering with Variable Selection for Missing Data"

Student: Mr Long Nguyen Chi (School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, HUST). Next: Research Assistant, College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam.

09/2024- · Research mentoring: "Model Selection in Mixture of Experts Models Using Dendrograms of Mixing Measures"

Student: Mr Trung Nguyen Mai (Advanced Program in Computer Science). University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.

09/2024- · Research mentoring: "Model Selection in Mixture of Experts Models Using Dendrograms of Mixing Measures"

Student: Mr Tien Hai Do (Honours Program in Mathematics and Computer Science). University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: Master at the Mathematics Institute, LMU Munich, Germany.

05/2024- · Research mentoring: "Revisiting Incremental Stochastic Majorization-Minimization Algorithms with Applications to Mixture of Experts"

Student: Mr TrungKhang Tran (ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship, Computer Science). National University of Singapore, Singapore.

05/2024- · Research mentoring: "A Globally Convergent Minorization-Maximization Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture of Experts Models"

Student: Mr Tung Doan (AI Project Lead, AISIA Research Lab). University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. Next: PhD (scholarship) at the School of Medicine, Griffith University, Australia.