Nguyen Thuy Ngoc
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
- Email: ngocnt[AT]cmu.edu
Hi, I’m currently a postdoc at the Dynamic Decision Making Lab (DDMLab) at Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
Prior to CMU, I received my PhD for research on supporting group decision making process with recommendation techniques at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Previously, I completed my master’s and bachelor’s degrees at Vietnam National University - HoChiMinh City University of Science and HoChiMinh City University of Education, respectively.
My full first name is Thuy Ngoc, which I use for official documents and publications. In all other situations, such as email exchange or day-to-day communications, I simply go by the shorter version, Ngoc.
Research Interests: Recommender Systems, Modeling of Human Behavior, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning
My full first name is Thuy Ngoc, which I use for official documents and publications. In all other situations, such as email exchange or day-to-day communications, I simply go by the shorter version, Ngoc.
Research Interests: Recommender Systems, Modeling of Human Behavior, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and Machine Learning
Research Projects
- A chat-based group recommender system The application domain of this project is point of interests (POIs) recommendations for a group of people. It is a working prototype of group recommender system, an Android mobile application.
- Simulation models for group decision making process Simulation experiments to analyze and gain deeper insights into the interplay between group members’ behavior and the performance of group recommendations.
- Visualization of humans playing a search and rescue mission in Minecraft Collecting data from human participants and visualize it on the map. [Code]
- Navigation goal-seeking task in Gridworld Interactive navigation goal-seeking task. [Code]
- One-step goal-seeking task in Gridworld Interactive one-step goal-seeking task.
- 2D Minimap game Interactive minimap game of search and resue mission. [Code]
Recent Publications
A full list of my publications is available on Google Scholar and DBLP.
Journal articles
- Theory of Mind From Observation in Cognitive Models and Humans, Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS), 2021. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Cleotilde Gonzalez
- Conflict resolution in group decision making: insights from a simulation study, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), pp. 1-47, 2019. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc, Francesco Ricci, Amra Delic, and Derek Bridge
- A chat-based group recommender system for tourism, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT), 18(1-4): 5-28, 2018. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Francesco Ricci
- An observational user study for group recommender systems in the tourism domain, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT), 19(1-4): 87-116, 2018. [PDF] Delic, Amra, Julia Neidhardt, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, and Francesco Ricci
Conference papers
- Cognitive Machine Theory of Mind, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020), pp. 2560-2566, July 29-August 1, Virtual meeting, 2020. [PDF] [Poster] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Cleotilde Gonzalez
- Situation-dependent combination of long-term and session-based preferences in group recommendations: an experimental analysis, In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2018), pp. 1366-1373. ACM, 2018. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Francesco Ricci
- Dynamic elicitation of user preferences in a chat-based group recommender system, In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2017), 1685-1692. ACM, 2017. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Francesco Ricci
- Combining long-term and discussion-generated preferences in group recommendations, In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP2017), pp. 377-378. ACM, 2017. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc and Francesco Ricci
- Conversational group recommender systems, In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP2017, Doctoral Consortium), pp. 331-334. ACM, 2017. [PDF] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc
- Observing group decision making processes, In Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on recommender systems (RecSys2016), pp. 147-150. ACM, 2016. [PDF] Delic, Amra, Julia Neidhardt, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Francesco Ricci, Laurens Rook, Hannes Werthner, and Markus Zanker
PhD Thesis
- Supporting Group Discussions with Recommendation Techniques, Faculty of Computer Science - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 2019. [PDF] [Slide] Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc