Hi, I'm My Duong

I am an undergraduate researcher at the University of South Florida . My work focuses on data-centric machine learning, particularly data subset and coreset selection. I am interested in understanding which examples are necessary to preserve model behavior, how data should be valued and selected, and how learning can be made more efficient with less data.

Data-Centric ML Subset Selection Optimization
Portrait of My Duong

publications

Journals and Conferences

2026

Which Data Preserves Decisions? Counterfactual Audits of Decision Protocols

M. Duong, P. Chumpitaz-Flores, K. Hua
UAI 2026 CDM Workshop
Workshop
2026

A Benchmark for Large Language Model Question Answering in Hematopoietic Cell and Bone Marrow Transplantation

M. Duong, T. Nguyen, S. Haddadan, T. Thieu, T. Nishihori
Tandem Meetings 2026
Conference
2026

Which Directions Matter? Sparse Design for Affine Robust Optimization

P. Chumpitaz-Flores*, M. Duong*, J. S. Borrero, K. Hua
UAI 2026
* Equal contribution
Conference
2025

qc-kmeans: A Quantum Compressive K-Means Algorithm for NISQ Devices

P. Chumpitaz-Flores, M. Duong, Y. Mao, K. Hua
IEEE BigData 2025
Conference
2025

QIBONN: A Quantum-Inspired Bilevel Optimizer for Neural Networks on Tabular Classification

P. Chumpitaz-Flores, M. Duong, Y. Mao, K. Hua
IEEE BigData 2025
Conference
2025

Curiosity Exploration Styles in Word Association Tasks

S. Steinle, M. Duong, S. Kumar, R. El Brouzi, J. Licato
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 47
Conference

Preprints

2025

A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for Constrained Clustering

P. Chumpitaz-Flores, M. Duong, C. Heredia, K. Hua
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22519
2025

Giving AI Personalities Leads to More Human-Like Reasoning

A. Nighojkar, B. Moydinboyev, M. Duong, J. Licato
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14155

talks

2026

Decision-Preserving Subset Selection for Influence-Based Audits of Machine Learning Systems

INFORMS Annual Meeting · San Francisco, CA · November 2026
2026

A Scalable Global Optimization Algorithm for Constrained Clustering

IISE Annual Conference and Expo · Arlington, TX · May 2026
2025

Quantum-Inspired Bilevel Optimizer for Neural Networks on Tabular Classification

INFORMS Workshop on Data Science · Atlanta, GA · October 2025

projects

some projects I worked on besides my labs

Benchmarking Knowledge Editing Methods

Benchmarked knowledge-editing methods on Llama and Qwen models using EasyEdit, analyzing their trade-offs in edit accuracy, generalization, knowledge preservation, and computational efficiency.

Knowledge Editing LLMs

HVIPrediction

Modeled Florida temperature trends and predicted Heat Vulnerability Index (HVI) using geospatial analysis, robust linear regression, and clustering to assess community-level heat risk.

Robust Linear Regression Clustering

HumanAI Crisis Analysis

Developed an AI-powered behavioral analysis pipeline that classifies crisis-related Reddit posts by sentiment and risk severity, extracted contextual location signals with NLP, and mapped regional distress patterns through geospatial visualization.

Crisis Geolocation Information Extraction Crisis Risk Classification

FinPortOpt

Designed a multi-model equity forecasting pipeline for portfolio optimization, comparing ARIMA, LSTM, and XGBoost across statistical, deep-learning, and gradient-boosting approaches. Performed time-series diagnostics and out-of-sample forecasting to generate predictive signals for downstream portfolio allocation.

Portfolio Optimization Time Series Prediction

hobbies

art n craft

I enjoy drawing in my free time. Here are a few selected pieces.