DrHung Le

Senior Lecturer

Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative/Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Geelong)

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative/Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Geelong)
  • +61 3 522 72425 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Dr. Hung Le is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia. He is a senior member of Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (A2I2), where he currently supervises several PhD students in research areas focused on machine learning (ML) and reinforcement learning (RL). He specializes in deep learning and is dedicated to pioneering new agents equipped with artificial neural memory. His extensive work includes multi-modal, adaptive, and generative memory, efficient policy optimization, and memory-based reinforcement learning agents. With applications spanning health, dialogue agents, robotics, reinforcement learning, machine reasoning, and natural language processing, Dr. Le consistently publishes in premier ML/RL/AI conferences and journals, including ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, TMLR, KDD, NAACL, ECCV, and AAMAS. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) from Hanoi University of Science and Technology and completed his PhD in Computer Science at Deakin University in 2015 and 2020, respectively

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Geelong)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Lecturer
    Deakin University, AustraliaApr 2022 - Dec 2025
  • Associate Research Fellow
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia2 Sep 2019 - 1 Apr 2022
  • Teaching Assistant
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia2017 - 2018

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Engineer
    Viettel R&D, Viet Nam30 Jun 2015 - 30 Apr 2017

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science
    Hanoi University of Technology, Viet Nam5 Sep 2010 - 19 Aug 2015
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
    Deakin University, Australia28 Aug 2017 - 24 Jun 2020

LANGUAGES

  • Vietnamese
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Reinforcement learning

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Research and Innovation

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative