Linh Thai Nguyen

Ph.D., Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616

 

Office: 312-567-5330
Home: 773-847-9357
Email: nguylin@iit.edu
Web: http://www.iit.edu/~nguylin/

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Biographical Sketch

I was a Ph.D. candidate in the Information Retrievel Lab. at Illinois Institute of Technology. My research is on Scalable, Distributed/Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval systems. My advisor are Prof. Wai Gen Yee, and Prof. Ophir Frieder. I graduated in May, 2009. I am member of the ACM and IEEE.

I got my M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science, both from Hanoi University of Technology (Vietnam), in 2002 and 1993, respectively. My M.S. thesis is about index structures for temporal databases, and my B.S. thesis is about digital signal processing based on Fast Fourier Transformation.

Before joining the IR Lab. at IIT, I have been working as a project manager/technical lead/software engineer for 10 years in Finance/Banking industry.

News
  • May 15, 2009: I just finished my PhD. I will join Orbitz Worldwide soon.
  • July 15, 2008: Our paper, "Adaptive Distributed Indexing for Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks", has been accepted as a full paper for The 17th AMC Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08).
  • June 09, 2008: We have another paper accepted for The Eighth Int'l Conf. on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'08).
  • June 06, 2008: Our paper, "Efficient Query Routing by Improved Peer Description in P2P Networks", won the Best Paper Award at The Third Int'l Conf. on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), 2008.

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Areas of interest

Information Retrieval: Inverted list compression, static/dynamic index pruning, document pruning, query optimization, web crawling, text summarization, query result ranking, language modeling, semantic search.

Peer-to-peer and Distributed Computing: Distributed inverted list indexing, distributed top-K query processing, peer-to-peer query routing, document collection representation, peer-to-peer self-organizing overlay networks.

Other:Data mining, machine learning, graph analysis, matrix decomposition, probabilistic data structures.

Selected Publications
  1. Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir Frieder: A View of the Data on P2P File-Sharing Systems. Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2009 (to appear).
  2. Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Ophir Frieder: Adaptive Distributed Indexing for Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks. The ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'08), 2008. slides
  3. Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Ophir Frieder: Query Workload Driven Summarization for P2P Query Routing. The Eighth Int'l Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'08), 2008.
  4. Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Dongmei Jia, Ophir Frieder: Efficient Query Routing by Improved Peer Description in P2P Networks. The Third Int'l ICST Conference on Scalabe Information Systems (INFOSCALE'08), 2008 (Best Paper Award).
  5. Linh Thai Nguyen, Dongmei Jia, Wai Gen Yee, Ophir Frieder: An Analysis of Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System Queries. Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR'07), 2007.
  6. Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir Frieder: A Tool for Information Retrieval Research in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), 2007.

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Services
  • External reviewer: HPCC 2008, INFOSCALE 2008, MobiDE 2008, INFOSCALE 2007, P2P 2007, ICPP 2007, CIKM 2006, NCA 2006, OSIR 2006, OSWIR 2005.
  • Volunteer: CIKM'08, KDD'05, Second Midwest Database Research Symposium, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005.

Courses

CS595 - Distributed Search Engines (Seminar course)

CS525 - Advanced Database Organization

CS535 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms

CS538 - Combinatorial Optimization

CS584 - Machine Learning

CS550 - Advanced Operating Systems

CS530 - Theory of Computation

 

Personal

I have been living in Chicago with my family since 2004. My wife graduated from Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology in May, 2007. We have two daughters, Cammy, and Anny . Originally, we are from Hanoi, Vietnam. We love Chicago, and we miss Hanoi. We wish if Hanoi wouldn't be half a globe away from Chicago.