Rate My Professor Thach-Thao Duong

Dr. Thach-Thao Duong serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Griffith University, completed in 2014 with a thesis titled 'Improving Diversification in Local Search for Propositional Satisfiability,' along with an MSc and BSc. Her research focuses on search heuristics, computer vision, data analytics, machine learning, and data. During her doctoral studies at the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, and in collaboration with NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, she contributed to advancements in stochastic local search techniques for satisfiability (SAT) problems. Notable early publications include 'Trap Avoidance in Local Search Using Pseudo-Conflict Directed Backjumping' (2012, AAAI Conference), co-authored with Duc-Nghia Pham and Abdul Sattar; 'A Switching Criterion for Intensification and Diversification in Local Search for SAT' (2012); and 'A method to avoid duplicative flipping in local search for SAT' (2013, Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence). She received the Best Paper Award at the Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013) for her work in this area.