Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name: Bui The Duy

Date of birth: 09/05/1978

Email: duybt_at_vnu_dot_edu_dot_vn

Phone: (84) 904 222 844

Languages: English (excellent in all skills), Vietnamese (mother tongue)

Education

- 2001 � 2004: PhD (Computer Science), University of Twente, the Netherlands

- 1998 � 2000: Bachelor of Science (Computer Science, 90% Weighted Averaged Mark), University of Wollongong, Australia

Work Experience

- 08/2004 � present: Lecturer, University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- 03/2001 � 07/2004: Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Twente, the Netherlands

- 01/2000 � 12/2000: Software project manager (also as developer) � Secure system for transferring medical records, at Southern Pathology, Australia.

- 05/1999 � 12/1999: Software project manager (also as developer) � Automatic Paint Mixing System, at Fluid Lmt., Australia

- 01/1996- 11/1996: Software developer � Financial Management System for Hospitals, at Bach Mai hospital, Hanoi.

Professional Activities

- Co-Director, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Vietnam Site (2006, 2007, 2008)

- Scientific Committee Member, Vietnam Collegiate Olympiad in IT / Vietnam High school Olympiad in IT / Vietnam Amteur Olympiad in IT

- Conference Paper Review: ICTACS 2006, ICMOCCA 2006, SIRI 2006, PRIMA 2007, ICMOCCA 2007

- Conference Organization: ICTAC 2006, SIRI 2006, PRIMA 2007

Teaching

- Computer Graphics (undergraduate)

- Image Processing (undergraduate)

- Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate)

- Advanced Topics in Computer Science (undergraduate)

- Human Computer Interaction (postgraduate)

- Machine Vision (postgraduate)

- Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (postgraduate)

- Multimedia Communication (postgraduate)

Projects/Grants

- 2007-2008: Buiding Friendly Intelligent-Agent-based User Interfaces

- 2005-2006: Building 3D model of the Hanoi National University with hand-held camera and applications on this 3D model

- 2004-2006: Building Vietnamese talking faces for human-computer interaction

Students

PhD students

- L� Th? H?i

- Ng� Th? Duy�n

Graduated Master students

- ��o Minh Thu

- Phan Nguy�n B�nh

- Ma Th? Ch�u

- Nguy?n Anh �?c

- Duong L� Minh

Honours and Award

- �Golden Globe IT Prize� by Vietnam Youth Union, 2007.

- First prize (as coach), Asia ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Site Danang, 2007 � Reaching World Final.

- First prize (as coach), Asia ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Site Hanoi, 2006 � Reaching World Final.

- Honours Research Scholarship for Honours degree

- Top 5% undergraduate student�s list, 1998,1999, 2000

- Fifth place, South Pacific ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 1999

- AusAid scholarship for top Vietnamese students to study undergraduate degree in Australia

- Bronze Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics, Hungary, 1995

- Bronze Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics, The Netherlands, 1994

- First prize, Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics, 1995

- Second prize, Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics, 1994

Skills

- Programming languages: C/C++, Java, Pascal, Basic, Tcl, Perl, Python, php

- Platforms: Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS, IBM OS/2

- Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Publications

Book/Book Chapter

- The Duy Bui, Emotion and Facial Expressions in Creating Embodied Agents, Neslia Paniculata, Enschede, ISBN 90-75296-10-X, July, 2004.

- The Duy Bui (2006). Chapter 11: Applying AI techniques for transferring 3D facial animation, ICTACS2006, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-270-063-6.

In Vietnamese

- ��o Ki?n Qu?c, B�i Th? Duy, Tin h?c co s?, Nh� xu?t b?n �?i h?c Qu?c gia H� n?i.

- H? Si ��m, Nguy?n Vi?t H�, B�i Th? Duy (2007), C?u tr�c d? li?u v� gi?i thu?t, Nh� xu?t b?n Gi�o d?c.

Papers

- Thi Duyen Ngo and The Duy Bui. When and How to Smile: Emotional Expression for 3D Conversational Agents. In: Proceedings of PRIMA2007, Lecture Note of Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2007.

- Da Phuc Phan, Thi Nhat Thanh Nguyen and The Duy Bui. A 3D Conversational Agent for Presenting Digital Information for Deaf People. In: Proceedings of PRIMA2007, Lecture Note of Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2007.

- The Duy Bui (2007). Classifying Online Handwriting Characters under Cosine Representation. In: Proceedings of ALPIT 2007, IEEE Computer Society, August 2007.

- The Duy Bui and Long Thang Nguyen (2007), Recognizing postures in Vietnamese Sign Language with MEMS accelerometers, IEEE Journal of Sensors (to appear).

- Long Thang Nguyen and The Duy Bui (2006), A mobile sign language recognition system for vocally disabled people, IEEE Conference in System Integration and Reliability Improvements.

- The Duy Bui and Le Minh Ngo (2006), Towards building up an m-World, In Proceeding: Japan - Vietnam workshop on software engineering 2006.

- Trung Kien Dang and The Duy Bui (2006). Toward building 3D model of Vietnam National university from video sequences. VNU Journal of Science.

- Hong Khiem Vu, The Duy Bui (2006). A PDA-based Traveling Assistant Agent. In: Proceedings of ICMOCCA2006, August 2006, Korea.

- The Duy Bui & Thi Nhat Thanh Nguyen (2006). Multimedia enabled 3D learning environment to enhance electronic lessons. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future, Vietnam.

- The Duy Bui (2005). Probabilistic Multi-agent Planning. In: Proceedings of CIRAS 2005, Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Singapore.

- The Duy Bui & Long Thang Nguyen (2005). Recognition of Vietnamese sign language using MEMS accelerometers. In: Proceedings ICST 2005, 1st International Conference on Sensing Technology, New Zealand.

- The Duy Bui (2005). Facial Behaviour for Embodied Conversational Agents. YVSM�05 - The first �Young Vietnamese Scientists Meeting 2005�, Nha Trang.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen, A. Nijholt & M. Poel (2005). On combining the facial movements of a talking head. In: Proceedings Measuring Behavior 2005, 5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, L.P.J.J. Noldus, F. Grieco, L.W.S Loijens & P.H. Zimmerman (Eds.), Wageningen, The Netherlands.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen & A. Nijholt. Building embodied agents that experience and express emotions: A football supporter as an example. In: Proceedings 17th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004), Geneva, July 2004, Computer Graphics Society.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen & A. Nijholt. Combination of facial movements on a 3D talking head. In: Proceedings Computer Graphics International 2004 (CGI 2004), Crete, Greece June 2004, IEEE Computer Society.

- The Duy Bui & D. Heylen (2003), How an Emotional Agent Acts in a Multi-Agent Environment, Second Int. Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15-18 December 2003, Singapore.

- The Duy Bui, M. Poel, D. Heylen & A. Nijholt (2003), Automatic face morphing for transferring facial animation, In: Proceedings 6th IASTED International Conference on Computers, Graphics, and Imaging (CGIM 2003), Honolulu, Hawai, USA, August 13-16, 2003, ACTA Press, Anaheim/Calgary/Zurich, ISBN 0-88986-376-8, 19-24.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen, M. Poel & A. Nijholt (2003), Exporting vector muscles for facial animation, In: Proceedings International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2003, A. Butz, A. Kr�ger & P. Olivier (eds.), Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin.

- The Duy Bui and Wojciech Jamroga (2003), Multi-Agent Planning with Planning Graph. proceedings of eunite 2003, 10-12 July 2003 in Oulu, Finland.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen & A. Nijholt (2003), Improvements on a simple muscle-based 3D face for realistic facial expressions, In: Proceedings 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA'2003), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamos, CA, ISBN 0-7695-1934-2, 33-40.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen, M. Poel & A. Nijholt (2002), ParleE: An adaptive plan-based event appraisal model of emotions, In: KI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, M. Jarke, J. Koehler, G. Lakemeyer (eds.), Proceedings KI 2002, 25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aachen, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2479, Springer,ISBN 3-540-44185-9, 129-143.

- The Duy Bui, D. Heylen, M. Poel & A. Nijholt (2001), Generation of facial expressions from emotion using a fuzzy rule based system, In: Proceedings 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2001), Adelaide, Australia, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2256, M. Stumptner, D. Corbett & M. Brooks (eds.), Springer, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-42960-3, 83-94.