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Thao Le

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales. I am working on developing skilled AI companions (ARC Discovery Project) with Prof. Michael Thielscher, Prof. Jill Bennett and her team at fEEL lab. My current research focuses on language models and knowledge representation and reasoning.

Prior to this position, I completed my 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. My PhD project focused on designing explainable AI systems that aim to help users make better decisions. My PhD advisors were Prof. Tim Miller (primary), Prof. Liz Sonenberg, and Dr. Ronal Singh.

During my research career, I have published papers in top AI venues as the first author, such as AAAI, ECAI, and JAIR. My research interests include:

  • explainable AI
  • language models
  • human-AI interaction
  • knowledge representation and reasoning
Students at UNSW: I am available to supervise undergraduate and Master's students at UNSW. Students will work on the topic of explainable AI and declarative programming. If you are interested in doing a research thesis with me, please feel free to email me your brief CV with research interests and UNSW transcript. I currently do not have fundings for PhD/MPhil/Research Assistant positions.


News

  • 12/2025: I will continue to serve as a reviewer at FaccT 2026.
  • 08/2025: Please check out our paper on Evaluative AI (under review) [Preprint] [Code]
  • 04/2025: I started a Postdoc position at UNSW Sydney
  • 02/2025: I gave a talk at CSIRO's Data61