[Research Seminar] Immersive Technology and Consumer Experience: Benefits and Perils – Helen Chun, Associate Professor of Service Marketing, Cornell University
Seminar Title: Immersive Technology and Consumer Experience: Benefits and Perils Speakers: Helen Chun – Associate Professor of Service Marketing, Cornell University Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 2:30 – 4:30 PM Venue: I201 – Peace Room, VinUniversity About the Seminar This project aims to examine the benefits and perils of immersive technologies such as virtual
[Research Seminar] Optimization Problems for Clean Energy Transition and Management of Power Systems – Dr. Riadh ZORGATI, Electricité de France
Seminar Title: Optimization Problems for Clean Energy Transition and Management of Power Systems Speaker: Dr. Riadh ZORGATI, Research Engineer, Research & Development Division, Electricité de France Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue: C202, VinUniversity About the Seminar EDF, the main French electricity utility, is one of the European leaders in
[Research Seminar] “What is Creativity? Unpacking Myths, Research, and Definitions” – Dr. Myles Lynch, College of Arts & Sciences
Seminar Title: What is Creativity? Unpacking Myths, Research, and Definitions Speaker: Dr. Myles Lynch, Faculty of College of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | 4 – 5 PM Venue: C204, VinUniversity Introduction This is an active learning seminar (bring a pen!). As part of this workshop, participants will take divergent thinking tasks,
Faculty Seminar: Knowledge, Action, and Social Epistemology – Dr. Michael Clark, CAS
The seminar seeks to unpack Wang Yang Ming’s elusive claim that knowledge is action, and bring this claim into contact with contemporary debates in social epistemology – debates about such crucial topics as disagreement, learning from others, and ‘fake news’.
The Architect: The Rise of the Revolutionary Lê Đức Thọ
Seminar Title: The Architect: The Rise of the Revolutionary Lê Đức Thọ Speaker: Dr. Jason Picard Time: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue: C204, VinUniversity Introduction In the West, Lê Đức Thọ is recalled as Henry Kissinger’s arch-nemisis at the Paris Peace Talks and the only person to have ever refused
35 years of optical remote sensing in Geography
35 years of optical remote sensing in Geography: from Spitsbergen to Vietnam, from melting glaciers to vector-borne diseases, from Small to Big Data… what a story! by Professor Dominique Laffly at the University of Toulouse.
NLP@VinUni: Robust & Low-Resource Natural Language Processing
Despite some empirical successes, natural language processing (NLP) technology remains limited when it comes to practical applications, due to a lack of reliability and robustness, and very high memory and computational footprints. We plan to develop a strong research activity at VinUni centered around NLP, with a focus on three thrusts: a) low-resource and robust
Service Quality Issues in the Triad of Sharing Services: Conceptualization of Issues and Propositions for Solutions
Abstract: Sharing-service business models face their own unique operational issues. The human aspect of the operation is particularly different from traditional service business models, and therefore requires special attention. One in that aspect is “increased role of customers in service production/delivery process” in sharing-service models. The primary goal of this study is to identify such
Lived experiences of sexual violence among trans women of colour in Australia: What can we do for Vietnam?
Research Abstract: Transgender (trans) women are at higher risk of sexual violence than cisgender women. Transwomen of colour face discrimination and violence on the basis of the intersection of their gender and racial identities, and for some, their sexual identities as queer women. However, there is an absence of Australian research investigating the experiences of
Corpus Linguistics – How do computers analyze human language?
Most of us have probably had the experience of using translation software and receiving the wrong message. Why does this happen? And how do these language technologies work? In this seminar, we will discuss the science behind computational linguistics systems and their areas for improvement in the future. About the Speaker: Dr. Bui Thanh Tuong