About me

My name is Anh-Thu Le (Thu, for simplicity). I am a PhD student at the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC), VinUniversity starting Fall 2025. I work under the guidance of Prof. Khoa D. Doan and co-advised by Prof. Wray Buntine and Prof. Hong Chu.

My research focuses on Vision-Language Model (VLM) for medical image diagnosis, including making these model more efficiently (compression/ quantization), more interpretable (mechanistic interpretation) uncertainty-aware, etc…

I received a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh (HCMUS). I got 3.8 GPA with absolute thesis score and graduated earlier than regular program.

Before joining PhD program, I have had experience in Applied AI in Computer Security with 2 years as Research Assistant in the Computer Security lab under guidance of Dr. Minh-Son Dao (NICT, Japan), Prof. Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (University of Bergen, Norway) and Dr. Anh-Duy Tran (Ku Leuven, Belgium). During this time, I published two papers as first/co-first author: one in ACM ICMR 2024 and one in IEEE Access (Q1 journal), focusing on multimedia verification.

Outside of research, I enjoy sports, outdoor activities, and reading.

Please feel free to reach out to me via email for collaboration or simply to connect. I truly love what I do and am always open to meaningful conversations on how we can make a positive impact together.