Phi Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
Phi Le Nguyen is a lecturer at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). She is also the managing director of the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (BKAI), HUST. She received her B.E. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 2007 and 2010, respectively. She got her Ph.D. in informatics from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, in 2019. Her research interests include network architecture (WSN, SND, and MEC), Machine learning (Federated learning, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning), and applied AI (environmental monitoring and healthcare).
Short Abstract: Vietnam is in a severe shortage of physicians, with the ratio of doctors and nurses per population being much lower than the average of low- and middle-income countries. This situation necessitates the development of systems that help Vietnamese be proactive in taking care of their health, monitoring risks in the pre-disease stages, and thereby improving healthcare quality in general. One obvious solution is to digitize healthcare information and deliver it to every citizen. The VAIPE project aims to build an intelligent healthcare system to assist users in collecting, managing, and analyzing their health-related data. Our system enables users to collect heterogeneous data captured from multiple sources using a convenient smartphone camera, provides visualizations of analytical and predicted results, and includes functions to support users, for example, reminding of medication schedules and warning of early-disease risks. Our system is AI-assisted and involves original research and development of several key modules: (1) representation, storage, and processing of multi-source multi-type data, (2) training, learning, and mining on data for clinical insights and disease risk prediction with supporting evidence, (3) enhancement of user privacy and engagement in sharing their health-related data, and (4) optimized resource allocation to reduce deployment cost while guaranteeing QoS constraints. In this talk, I would like to share our recent findings on trustworthy AI in VAIPE. Specifically, I will focus on pill detection with reliability and explainability, and Federated learning under non-ideal and uncontrollable clients’ data.