Thao Le
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Sydney, Australia
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-tier AI venues (CORE A*/A conferences and Q1 journals) as the first author, such as EMNLP, AAAI, ECAI, and JAIR.