Research
In brief, my scholarship focuses on designing and developing core deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies, as well as specialized DL/AI frameworks for specific tasks in critical application domains such as next generation networks, education, and transformative industrial applications.
SPONSORED PROJECTS, CONTRACTS AND GRANTS
- Equifax Ethics in AI Research Lab (2024-current). Role: PI
- CPRS Research Lab (2024-current). Role: PI
- CCSE Summer Research Fellowship (2024). Role: PI
- Suntrust Research Fellowship (2022-2023) Objective: Enhancing Reliability and Confidentiality for Information Sharing over 5G Radio Access Network Slicing. Role: co-PI
- Cognira Data Science Research Lab (2021-2022) Objective: Detection of Halo effects in retailing; Amount of grants: $40,000; Role: Lead PI
- Motion Intelligence (2020-2022) Objective: Human pose detection and application in cloud edge computing; Amount of grants: $50,000; Role: co-PI
- Alcon Data Science Research Lab (2020-2021) Objective: Anomaly detection in production lines; Amount of grants: $60,000; Role: co-PI
- Equifax Data Science Lab (2016-2018) Objective: Deep learning in biometric verification; Amount of grants: $75,000; Role: Lead Researcher
- Blue Ridge Global Data Science Research Lab (2015-2016) Objective: Graph-based multivariate forecasting model; Amount of Contract: $30,000; Role: Lead Researcher
- Kimberly Clark project (2015-2016) Objective: Challenges of incontinence among elders; Amount: $30,000; Role: Researcher.
PUBLICATIONS
US Patent:
- Xie, Y., Le, L., Dual Deep Learning Architecture for Machine-Learning Systems, U.S. Patent Application No. 16/141,152, Equifax Inc.
Journals:
- Le, L., Tran, D. (2024). Metric Learning for Detection of Large Language Model Generated Contents (under review)
- Le, L., Nguyen, T. (2022). Efficient embedding VNFs in 5G network slicing: a deep reinforcement learning approach. (under review)
- Nguyen, T., Ambarani, K., Le, L., Djordjevic, I., Zhang, Z. (2022). A Multiple-Entanglement Routing Framework for Quantum Networks (under review)
- Le, L., Nguyen, T. (2022). DQRA: Deep Quantum Routing Agent for Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
- Nguyen, T., Le, L. (2021). An Efficient Hybrid Webshell Detection Method for Webserver of Marine Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1-13.
- Le, L., Xie, Y., & Raghavan, V. V. (2021). KNN Loss and Deep KNN. Fundamenta Informaticae, 182(2), 95-110.
- Le, L., Xie, Y. (2019, April), Deep Embedding Kernel, Neurocomputing (pp. 292-302), Elsevier., Volume 339, ISSN 0925-2312, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.02.037.
Chapters in Books:
- Xie, Y., Le, L., Zhou, Y., & Raghavan, V. (2018). Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing. In V. Gudivada & C. Rao, Handbook of Statistics (pp. 317-328). Elsevier. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169716118300026 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.host.2018.05.001
Proceedings:
- Le, L., Hebbar, S., Nguyen, M. (2024). A Low-Resource Framework for Detection of Large Language Model Contents. To appear in ICLR 2024
- Le, L., Nguyen, T., Suo, K., He, J. (2022). 5G Network Slicing and Drone-Assisted Applications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. Mobicom 2022
- Le, L., Nguyen, T. (2022). Entanglement Routing for Quantum Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. In the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications
- Le, L., Xie, Y., Charkravaty, S., Hales, M., Johnson, J., & Nguyen, T., (2021, December). Analyzing Students’ Concentration Levels from Webcam Feed. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE.
- Li, L., Peltsverger, S., Zheng, J., Le, L., & Handlin, M. (2021, October). Retrieving and Classifying LinkedIn Job Titles for Alumni Career Analysis. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 85-90).
- Le, L., Mallapragada, S., Hebbar, S., (2021). One-Class Self-Attention Model for Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing Lines. In proceedings of 2021 Intelligent Systems Conference (to-appear).
- Chakravarty, S., Xie, Y., Le, L., Johnson, J., & Hales, M. (2021, September). Comparison Between Active and Passive Attention Using EEG Waves and Deep Neural Network. In International Conference on Brain Informatics (pp. 287-298). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86993-9_27
- Le, L., Xie, Y., & Alagapan, S., (2020, December). Deep Pose Alignment. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 5366-5372). IEEE.
- Hada, R. J., Jin, M., Xie, Y., & Le, L. (2019, September). Link Prediction Based Minimum Cost and Balanced Partition of Large Online Social Networks. In 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). IEEE.
- Le, L., Xie, Y., & Raghavan, V. V. (2018, December). Deep Similarity-Enhanced K Nearest Neighbors. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 2643-2650). IEEE. doi: https://10.1109/BigData.2018.8621894
- Le, L., & Xie, Y. (2018, December). Recurrent Embedding Kernel for Predicting Stock Daily Direction. In 2018 IEEE/ACM 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) (pp. 160-166). IEEE. doi: https://10.1109/BDCAT.2018.00027
- Le, L., Xie, Y. (2019). Deep Learning with SAS® and Python: A Comparative Study. In Proceedings of SAS Global Forum 2019.
- Le, L., Xie, Y. (2019). Modeling with Deep Recurrent Architectures: A Case Study of Using SAS and Python for Deep Learning. In Proceedings of SAS Global Forum 2019.
- Gadidov, B. & Le, L. (2018). A Case Study of Mining Social Media Data for Disaster Relief: Hurricane Irma, In Proceedings of SAS Global Forum 2018 https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2018/2695-2018.pdfY.
- Xie, Y., Le, L., & Hao, J. (2017, May). Unsupervised deep kernel for high dimensional data. In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 294-299). IEEE. doi: https://10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7965868
- Le, L. Hao, J. Xie, Y., & Priestley J. (2017). Deep Kernel: Learning the Kernel Function from Data Using Deep Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3006312
- Xie, Y., Pooja, C., & Le, L. (2017). Visualization of High Dimensional Data in a Three-Dimensional Space. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3006340
- Le, L. & Priestley, J. (2017, April). Using the OPTGRAPH Procedure: Transformation of Transactional Data into Graph for Cluster Analysis. In Proceedings of SAS Global Forum 2017. http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/1065-2017.pdf