VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Nguyen Thach
dblp:383/7066 · also Nguyen T. Thach
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Health and well-being technologies · 77% Ubiquitous computing and smart environments · 23% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
generative adversarial network |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | A Novel GAN Approach to Augment Limited Tabular Data for Short-Term Substance Use Prediction · IJCAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › synthetic data generation
tabular data augmentation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | A Novel GAN Approach to Augment Limited Tabular Data for Short-Term Substance Use Prediction · IJCAI 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
generative adversarial network · 1.5multi-label classification · 0.9large language model prompting · 0.9boosting · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MuHBoost: Multi-Label Boosting For Practical Longitudinal Human Behavior ModelingabstractLongitudinal human behavior modeling has received increasing attention over the years due to its widespread applications to patient monitoring, dietary and lifestyle recommendations, and just-in-time intervention for at-risk individuals (e.g., problematic drug users and struggling students), to name a few. Using in-the-moment health data collected via ubiquitous devices (e.g., smartphones and smartwatches), this multidisciplinary field focuses on developing predictive models for certain health or well-being outcomes (e.g., depression and stress) in the short future given the time series of individual behaviors (e.g., resting heart rate, sleep quality, and current feelings). Yet, most existing models on these data, which we refer to as ubiquitous health data, do not achieve adequate accuracy. The latest works that yielded promising results have yet to consider realistic aspects of ubiquitous health data (e.g., containing features of different types and high rate of missing values) and the consumption of various resources (e.g., computing power, time, and cost). Given these two shortcomings, it is dubious whether these studies could translate to realistic settings. In this paper, we propose MuHBoost, a multi-label boosting method for addressing these shortcomings, by leveraging advanced methods in large language model (LLM) prompting and multi-label classification (MLC) to jointly predict multiple health or well-being outcomes. Because LLMs can hallucinate when tasked with answering multiple questions simultaneously, we also develop two variants of MuHBoost that alleviate this issue and thereby enhance its predictive performance. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate MuHBoost and its variants on 13 health and well-being prediction tasks defined from four realistic ubiquitous health datasets. Our results show that our three developed methods outperform all considered baselines across three standard MLC metrics, demonstrating their effectiveness while ensuring resource efficiency. Nguyen Thach, Patrick Habecker, Anika Eisenbraun, Alex Mason, Kimberly Tyler, Bilal Khan 0002, Hau Chan |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2024 | A Novel GAN Approach to Augment Limited Tabular Data for Short-Term Substance Use Prediction
Nguyen Thach, Patrick Habecker, Bergen Johnston, Lillianna Cervantes, Anika Eisenbraun, Alex Mason, Kimberly Tyler, Bilal Khan 0002, Hau Chan |
IJCAI | 1 |