Ph.D. candidate Tran Luong Quoc Dai successfully defended a doctoral dissertation at the Faculty-level in Computer Science

On July 29, 2023, Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) held an examining committee for the doctoral dissertation at the Faculty-level for Ph.D. candidate Tran Luong Quoc Dai (Ph.D. candidate code: 186205002) in Computer Science (Program code: 9480101).

This is the first Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science that has successfully defended a doctoral dissertation at the Faculty-level with the topic "Reinforcement Learning for Conversational Agent" under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Le Anh Cuong (TDTU).

Tran Luong Quoc Dai was recruited to the Ph.D program in 2018. He has completed 11 credits for specialized courses, 06 credits of doctoral research topics, 04 credits of literature review, and published 03 articles in SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded), including:

• Tran, Q.-D.L.; Le, A.-C. Exploring Bi-Directional Context for Improved Chatbot Response Generation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 5041. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13085041 (SCIE, Q2, IF 2.7)
• Quoc-Dai Luong Tran, Dinh-Hong Vu, Anh-Cuong Le and Ashwin Ittoo, Contextual Modeling in Context-Aware Conversation Systems, in KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 17, 5, (2023), 1396-1412. (SCIE, Q3, IF 1.5)
• Q. -D. L. Tran, A. -C. Le and V. -N. Huynh, Enhancing Conversational Model with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Adversarial Learning, in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 75955-75970, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3297652. (SCIE, Q1)

The doctoral dissertation of Ph.D. candidate Tran Luong Quoc Dai was approved with 05 votes from 05 committee members.

There are some photos of the doctoral dissertation examining committee:

Dr. Thi Ngoc Bao Dung - Assistant Head of the Department of Graduate Studies (TDTU) announced the Decision to establish the committee.

Assoc.Prof. Dinh Dien (Ho Chi Minh City University of Science), Chairman of the Committee.

Ph.D. candidate Tran Luong Quoc Dai defends his doctoral dissertation in English.

Assoc.Prof. Nguyen Dang Tuan (Sai Gon University), first reviewer commented on the thesis.

Assoc.Prof. Quan Thanh Tho (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology), second reviewer, commented on the doctoral dissertation.

Dr. Pham Van Huy (TDTU), commissioner, commented on the doctoral dissertation.

Dr. Nguyen Chi Thien (TDTU), member and secretary, commented on the doctoral dissertation.

Assoc.Prof. Le Anh Cuong, the supervisor, commented on the scientific and practical significance of the dissertation topic.

The Committee took souvenir photos with Ph.D. candidate Tran Luong Quoc Dai.