Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previous: Indiana State University, UC San Diego. PhD from University of Chicago.
Joined May 2014
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Jun 10
Our paper has been accepted at BIOKDD 2026.
Congratulations to my PhD student Duy Nguyen, who is supported by the Wu-Johnstone PhD Fellowship at UAB and co-advised by Prof. John Johnstone.
Special thanks to Prof. Johnstone for his guidance, support and collaboration.
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🇻🇳🇺🇸 Excited to share that our paper "DiFlow-TTS" has been accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026!
A UAB and FPT Software AI Center collaboration to advance speech AI and strengthen US-Vietnam research ties.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09631
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Apr 30
Excited to share that our HySonLab paper "Topology- and Gradient-Guided Knowledge Distillation for Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation" has been accepted as is by Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)!
Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=lP2phG…
Code: github.com/HySonLab/PointDis…
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Apr 28
Our project on AI for protein, molecule, and biomedical modeling has been awarded 200,000 compute credits from NSF ACCESS.
This will accelerate large-scale model training at HySonLab and complements HPC resources like Cheaha (UAB) and the Alabama Supercomputer Authority.
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Apr 11
A wonderful moment at the Alabama AI Summit today with my two PhD students together with Prof. Yuliang Zheng, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UAB, and Prof. Amber Wagner. I am grateful to be part of a vibrant AI community at UAB and in Alabama.
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Honored to officially join Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) as an Editor. Scientific Reports is a Q1 journal with a 2024 impact factor of 3.9 and is currently the 3rd most-cited journal in the world.
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Mar 20
🚀 New publication from HySonLab!
"EquiHGNN: Scalable Rotationally Equivariant Hypergraph Neural Networks" is accepted at Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP).
Presented at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop (San Diego).
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.05650
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Our published manuscript at JCP: pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article…
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Mar 31
One of the final works from my PhD thesis has been accepted at Machine Learning: Science and Technology (Q1, IF = 4.6).
Grateful to my PhD advisor Prof. Risi Kondor for his guidance. Glad to publish once again with #UChicago affiliation nearly 4 years after graduation.
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Accepted manuscript: iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
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Mar 30
HySonLab would like to sincerely thank the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Department of Computer Science for the support. We look forward to continuing our contributions to AI and scientific discovery.
uab.edu/cas/news/faculty/fac…
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Prof. Truong-Son Hy retweeted
Mar 29
This paper took us 13 years and is one of the longest papers ever in Cell. Check it out & judge for yourself
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Just because epigenetic drift follows a predictable pattern doesn't necessarily mean it's causal in aging. Predictable patterns can form from stochastic reactions. Also you cannot fix all extracellular damages with cellular rejuvenation. More here: olafurpall.substack.com/p/wh…
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Pleased to share that a paper from HySonLab has been accepted to Communications Chemistry, a prestigious journal of Nature. We propose generative AI combined with evolutionary algorithms for multi-target drug discovery, improving synthesizability.
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24 Nov 2025
After 2 months of training again to prepare for the Alabama High School Programming Contest and to lead Team UAB to compete in the ICPC North America Regional, I have just reached 500 solved LeetCode problems. Keep pushing forward!
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Mar 15
800 problems accepted on LeetCode. Consistent training will keep our mind sharp.
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