Tam Le (Assistant Professor @ISM)
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(a.k.a. Lê Thanh Tâm) |
Research interests: Optimal transport, tree-Wasserstein geometry, geometric machine learning, Riemannian manifold, topological data analysis, kernel methods, robust algorithms.
Contact
10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan
Email: tam[at]ism.ac.jp (or lttam.vn[at]gmail.com)
Room: A506B. Access to ISM
My CV is here - Updated September, 2022.
News
21-Jan-2023, Our paper, entitled “Scalable Unbalanced Sobolev Transport for Measures on a Graph” has been accepted to AISTATS’23! This is joint work with Kenji Fukumizu, and Truyen Nguyen.
01-Dec-2022, I am officially appointed as a visiting scientist at Functional Analytic Learning Unit, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP).
01-Sep-2022, I officially join in The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) as Assistant Professor. I am also an Assistant Professor at The Graduate School for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI).
26-Jul-2022, I give an invited talk at Kyoto Machine Learning workshop.
27-May-2022, I give an invited talk at Asia Pacific Seminar on Applied Topology and Geometry (APATG). [SLIDE]
01-Mar-2022, I give an invited talk at the AAAI workshop (OT-SDM: International Workshop on Optimal Transport and Structured Data Modeling). [SLIDE]
Research Support
04/2020 - 03/2023, JSPS KAKENHI Grant number 20K19873, Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists as PI (4.2M JPY).
04/2017 - 03/2020, JSPS KAKENHI Grant number 17K12745, Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) as PI (4.1M JPY).
Education
10/2012 - 09/2015, PhD program, Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan.
Supervisors: Professor Marco Cuturi, Professor Akihiro Yamamoto.
I completed my PhD program in September, 2015 and officially received my PhD degree in January, 2016.
Research Experience
09/2022 - present, Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM).
09/2022 - present, Assistant Professor, The Graduate School for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI).
12/2022 - present, Visiting Scientist, Functional Analytic Learning Unit, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP).
08/2021 - 08/2022, Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP).
Mentor: Professor Makoto Yamada
This position requires at least 5-year research experience after Ph.D.
09/2017 - 07/2021, Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP).
Mentor: Professor Makoto Yamada
02/2016 - 08/2017, Postdoctoral Researcher, Nagoya Institute of Technology & National Institute for Materials Science, Japan.
Mentor: Professor Ichiro Takeuchi.
01/2016, Associate Researcher, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mentor: Professor Ichiro Takeuchi.
10/2015 - 12/2015, Associate Researcher, Kyoto University, Japan.
Mentors: Professor Akihiro Yamamoto, Professor Marco Cuturi.