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Dr Lan Truong

Lecturer
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
Dr Lan Truong

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Biography

Lan V. Truong (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. in Information Theory from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore in 2018. He was an Operation and Maintenance Engineer with MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation, Hanoi, for several years. He spent one year as a Research Assistant with the NSF Center for Science of Information and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, U.S. in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Information Technology Specialization, FPT University, Hanoi, Vietnam. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, NUS. From 2020 to 2023, he was a Research Associate with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex, U.K. His research interests include deep learning theory, high-dimensional statistics, statistical learning, and information theory.

Qualifications

  • PhD National University of Singapore, (2018)

Appointments

University of Essex

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex (1/9/2023 - present)

Other academic

  • Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (6/1/2020 - 31/8/2023)

  • Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (21/8/2018 - 31/12/2019)

  • Lecturer, Department of Information Technology Specialization, FPT University (1/6/2013 - 31/7/2015)

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Mathematical foundations of deep learning and large language models

Open to supervise

Kernel Methods for Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Open to supervise

Information Theory for Communications, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models

Open to supervise

High-Dimensional Statistics and Algorithms

Open to supervise

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Data analysis and statistics with R (MA334)

  • Databases and data processing with SQL (MA332)

Publications

Journal articles (14)

Truong, LV. and Fàbregas, AGI., (2024). Generalized Random Gilbert-Varshamov Codes: Typical Error Exponent and Concentration Properties. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70 (2), 820-853

Truong, LV., (2023). Fundamental limits and algorithms for sparse linear regression with sublinear sparsity. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 24 (64), 1-49

Truong, LV., Cocco, G., Font-Segura, J. and Guillén i Fàbregas, A., (2023). Concentration Properties of Random Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 69 (12), 7499-7537

Truong, LV., (2023). Replica Analysis of the Linear Model with Markov or Hidden Markov Signal Priors. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 69 (12), 7953-7975

Truong, LV., Aldridge, M. and Scarlett, J., (2020). On the All-or-Nothing Behavior of Bernoulli Group Testing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 1 (3), 669-680

Truong, LV. and Scarlett, J., (2020). Support Recovery in the Phase Retrieval Model: Information-Theoretic Fundamental Limit. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (12), 7887-7910

Truong, LV. and Scarlett, J., (2020). On Gap-Based Lower Bounding Techniques for Best-Arm Identification. Entropy. 22 (7), 788-788

Truong, LV. and Yamamoto, H., (2020). On the Capacity of Symmetric M-User Gaussian Interference Channels With Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 66 (2), 722-741

Truong, LV. and Tan, VYF., (2019). The Reliability Function of Variable-Length Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding With Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (8), 5028-5042

Truong, LV. and Tan, VYF., (2019). Moderate Deviation Asymptotics for Variable-Length Codes With Feedback. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65 (7), 4364-4386

Truong, LV., (2019). Performance of Viterbi Decoding With and Without ARQ on Rician Fading Channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 67 (2), 903-914

Truong, LV. and Tan, VYF., (2018). On Gaussian MACs With Variable-Length Feedback and Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 64 (4), 2333-2346

TRUONG, LV. and YAMAMOTO, H., (2017). Posterior Matching for Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Feedback. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences. E100.A (5), 1165-1178

Truong, LV., Fong, SL. and Tan, VYF., (2017). On Gaussian Channels With Feedback Under Expected Power Constraints and With Non-Vanishing Error Probabilities. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 63 (3), 1746-1765

Conferences (16)

Truong, LV. and Guillén i Fàbregas, A., (2023). Concentration Properties of Generalized Random Gilbert-Varshamov Codes

Truong, LV., (2022). Generalization Error Bounds on Deep Learning with Markov Datasets

Truong, LV., (2022). On Linear Model with Markov Signal Priors

Truong, LV., Font-Segura, J., Cocco, G. and Fabregas, AGI., (2022). Convergence in Distribution of the Error Exponent of Random Codes at Zero Rate

Truong, LV., Cocco, G., Font-Segura, J. and Guillen i Fabregas, A., (2021). Concentration of Random-Coding Error Exponents

Truong, LV., (2021). Linear Models with Hidden Markov Sources via Replica Method

Truong, LV. and Scarlett, J., (2019). On the Information-Theoretic Limits of Noisy Sparse Phase Retrieval

Truong, LV. and F. Tan, VY., (2018). The Reliability Function of Lossy Source-Channel Coding of Variable-Length Codes with Feedback

Truong, LV., (2018). Performance of Viterbi Decoding on Interleaved Rician Fading Channels

Truong, LV. and Tan, VYF., (2017). On the Gaussian MAC with stop-feedback

Truong, LV. and Tan, VYF., (2017). Error exponent of the common-message broadcast channel with variable-length feedback

Truong, LV., Fong, SL. and Tan, VYF., (2016). On second-order asymptotics of AWGN channels with feedback under the expected power constraint

Truong, LV., Fong, SL. and Tan, VYF., (2016). The ∊-capacity region of AWGN multiple access channels with feedback

Truong, LV. and Yamamoto, H., (2015). On the capacity of symmetric Gaussian interference channels with feedback

Truong, LV., (2014). Posterior matching scheme for Gaussian multiple access channel with feedback

Truong, LV. and Szpankowski, W., (2013). Capacity of a Structural Binary Symmetric Channel

Thesis dissertation (1)

Truong, LV., (2018). Refined Asymptotics for the Fundamental Limits of Communications with Feedback

Contact

lan.truong@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 873656

Location:

2.524, Colchester Campus