Dr Thao Le
Research Associate
PhD in Engineering and IT (Artificial Intelligence), The University of Melbourne.
Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Thao Le is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, working on an ARC Discovery Project on developing skilled AI companions. Her current research focuses on language models, knowledge representation and reasoning.
She completed her PhD in 2025 with a specialisation in AI at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, fully funded by Melbourne Research Scholarship. Her PhD project focused on designing explainable AI systems that aim to help users make better decisions.
During her research career, she has published papers in top AI venues as the first author, such as AAAI, ECAI, and JAIR. Her research interests include:
- explainable AI
- language models
- human-AI interaction
- knowledge representation and reasoning
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- Teaching and Supervision
- Melbourne Research Scholarship: Full fee offset and stipend (2021-2025)
- Google Conference Grant (2023)
- Melbourne Centre for Data Science (MCDS) Top Up Scholarship (2022)
ARC Discovery Project - Harnessing AI to reduce loneliness (ARC-DP 2025-2027)
My Research Supervision
I am available to supervise undergraduate and Master's students. If you are interested in doing a research thesis with me, please feel free to email me your brief CV with research interests. I currently do not have fundings for PhD/MPhil/Research Assistant positions.