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Research

I have research background in social network mining, natural language processing, deep learning, geographic information system, and location based services. My current PhD topic is in the fields of digital cities of intereactions between people, locations, and activities. I am interested in the connections between computer science and social sciences.

Curriculum Vitae

I has been a doctoral student at Idiap and EPFL since January 2016. I graduated with a B.Sc degree in Information Technology from University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCMC) in 2010. I obtained my Master of Engineering in Multimedia and Communication from Telecom ParisTech , France in 2013.

From February 2013 to August 2013, I did my master intern at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Publications

• T. Phan and D. Gatica-Perez #Healthy #Fondue #Dinner: Analysis and Inference of Food and Drink Consumption Patterns on Instagram in In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 327-338. Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
• T. Phan, S. Muralidhar and D. Gatica-Perez #Drink Or #Drunk: Multimodal Signals and Drinking Practices on Instagram (Honorable Paper Award) Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth '19). Paper (.pdf)
• T. Phan, S. Muralidhar and D. Gatica-Perez Drinks & Crowds: Characterizing Alcohol Consumption through Crowdsensing and Social Media In Journal and Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT '19), Vol. 3, No. 2, Article 59 June 2019. Paper (.pdf)

Teaching Assistant

Spring Semester 2018, 2019

• Computational Social Media

Talk

Media4Sec, Barcelona, Spain, 2017

• Cities through the lens of social media: basic insights

News Paper

Food and Drink

• Schweiz: gesundes Essen, ungesunde Postings

Visualization

D4D Project 2015

• Big Mobile Phone Data in Senegal

Local/Non local 2016

• Swiss Cities, Locals and Non-locals

Personal Page

• Idiap
• LinkedIn