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Abstract. We present Duong Vu, a master's student in Computer Science at VinUniversity and research scholar at the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC). The subject investigates how machine learning systems can understand human cognition well enough to support mental health — responsibly, and on time. Preliminary findings indicate a persistent tendency to turn research problems into design problems. Code and coffee available upon request.

My research lives at the intersection of AI and computational cognitive science — building responsible AI systems and timely, technology-driven mental-health interventions. I'm interested in how machines can understand minds well enough to help them, without pretending to have one.

Previously: Sorbonne Université (LIP6 · Paris Brain Institute · ISIR) and VNU-UET. I play with UX/UI to deal with brain fog.

responsible AI · computational cognitive science · digital mental health · affective computing · human–AI interaction

_{fig. 01 (right) — the author, printed in 1,626 bits. every pixel of the photo became a 0 or 1 sized by its darkness.}

VISHC at PsyDefDetect: Mitigating Data Scarcity in Psychological Defense Classification with Context-Aware Synthetic Augmentation
_{Hoang-Thuy-Duong Vu, Quoc-Cuong Pham, Huy-Hieu Pham · BioNLP Shared Task @ ACL 2026 · [acl] [pdf] [code]}

@inproceedings{vu-etal-2026-vishc,
  title     = "{VISHC} at {P}sy{D}ef{D}etect: Mitigating Data Scarcity in Psychological
               Defense Classification with Context-Aware Synthetic Augmentation",
  author    = "Vu, Hoang-Thuy-Duong and Pham, Quoc-Cuong and Pham, Huy-Hieu",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the {B}io{NLP} 2026 (Shared Tasks)",
  year      = "2026",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
  doi       = "10.18653/v1/2026.bionlp-2.12",
  pages     = "77--86"
}

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
_{Vivek Chavan, et al. (incl. Hoang Thuy Duong Vu) · arXiv preprint · 2025 · [arXiv] [pdf]}

@misc{chavan2025feelingmachines,
  title         = {Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI},
  author        = {Chavan, Vivek and others},
  year          = {2025},
  eprint        = {2506.12437},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.HC}
}

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
graph LR
    HM(("human minds")) --- ME{"duong vu"}
    AM(("artificial minds")) --- ME
    ME --> RA["responsible AI"]
    ME --> CCS["computational<br>cognitive science"]
    ME --> DMH["digital<br>mental health"]
    RA --> GOAL(["timely mental-health<br>interventions"])
    CCS --> GOAL
    DMH --> GOAL

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