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Dr. Nhien-An Le-Khac

 

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Brief Biography

Dr. Nhien-An Le-Khac received a PhD degree in Computer Science (2005) from the Institute National Polytechnic Grenoble, France. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD). Since 2008, he is also a Research Fellow in the Research and Development Centre of Citibank, Ireland. Since September 2012, he has been working in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD, where he currently holds a Lecturer position. His research interest spans the area of Data Mining for Security, Fraud and Criminal Detection, Cloud Security and Privacy, Grid and High Performance computing, Distributed Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering. He has published over 40 scientific papers in prestigious journal and conferences in related disciplines. 

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Book Chapters:

  1. N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi"Toward Distributed Knowledge Discovery on Grid systems", Chapter in the Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing book series, published by Springer Verlag, April 2010, ISBN: 978-1-84996-076-2
  2. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, " Knowledge Discovery on Grid Systems", Chapter in “Data Mining: From Data to Knowledge" I-Tech publisher, October 2008
  3. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, "Towards a new Data Mining-based approach for Anti Money laundering in an international investment bank", Chapter in the “Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime”, LNICST series, Goel S. Ed. vol.31, Springer Verlag, April 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-11533-2 (based on ICDF2C paper)

International Peer-Reviewed Journals:

  1. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, “A Tree-based Approach for Detecting Redundant Business Rules in Very Large Financial Datasets”, IGI Global International Journal of Business Intelligence Research, ISSN 194703605-4059, Vol.3, No.4, 2012
  2. N-A. Le Khac and Kechadi, M-T., "Comparing Two approaches of disguising transaction data applied in detecting suspicious cases of money laundering in an investment bank", Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, Science Direct, 2012
  3. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, “The Feasibility of using an automated Net Asset Value Validation”, Journal of Technology and Investment, ISSN 2150-4059, Vol.1, No.3, August, 2010
  4. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi. “Performance Study of Distributed Apriori-like Frequent Itemsets Mining”, Knowledge and Information Systems Journal KAIS, Springer Verlag, April2009 ISSN 0219-1377
  5. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-T. Kechadi “An efficient Knowledge Management Tool for Distributed Data Mining”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009, ISSN 0974-1259, 2009
  6. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi. "Grid-based Approaches for Distributed Data Mining Applications", In Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology, ISSN 1748-3018, Multi-Science Publishing. Vol.3 No.4, 2009.
  7. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-T. Kechadi, "Knowledge Map Layer for Distributed Data Mining”", ISAST Transactions on Intelligent Systems, Vol . 1, No. 1 , January 2008
  8. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi. “Distributed Frequent Itemsets Mining in Heterogeneous Platforms”, Journal of Engineering, Computing and Architecture Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2007 ISSN 1934-7197.
  9. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-T. Kechadi “Distributed Knowledge Map for Mining Data on Grid Platform”, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, Vol. 7, No 10, 2007 ISSN 1738-7906.

International Peer-Reviewed Conferences:

  1. N-A. Le-Khac, F. Cai, M-T. Kechadi, “An Integrated Classification Model for Financial Data Mining”, 6th Multi-disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligent, Springer-LNAI, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam, Dec 26-28, 2012
  2. N-A. Le-Khac, F. Cai, M. Tahar Kechadi, “: Clustering Approaches for Financial Data Analysis”, The 8th International conference on Data Mining (DMIN 2012), July 16-19, Nevada, USA
  3. Aouad, L., LeKhac N-A. and Kechadi, M-T. "Cloud An Open Architecture for Digital Evidence Acquisition on Smart Phones", the 8th Annual Workshop on Digital Forensics(IFIP’12),Pretoria, South Africa, January 3-5, 2012
  4. N-A Le Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, "On a Distributed Approach for Density-based Clustering", IEEE 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'11), Dec 18 - 21, Hawaii, USA
  5. N-A. LeKhac, Whelan, M., and Kechadi, M-T. ."A New Hybrid Clustering Method for Reducing Very Large Spatio-temporal Dataset", 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011),Beijing, China, December 17-19 2011
  6. N-A Le Khac, M. Whelan and M-Tahar Kechadi, “Performance Evaluation of a Density-based Clustering Method for Reducing Very Large Spatio-temporal Dataset”, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2011), July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
  7. Michael Whelan, N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi, "Comparing two density-based clustering methods for reducing very large spatio-temporal dataset ", IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services (ICSDM 2011) June 29 - July 1, 2011, Fuzhou, China
  8. N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi, " Efficient Distributed Approach for Density-Based Clustering ", IEEE International conference On Cooperative Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2011 (WETICE 2011), June 28 - 30, 2011, France
  9. N-A. Le-Khac, M. Bue and M-T. Kechadi, “The Impact of Data Reduction Partitioning on Large Spatio-Temporal Data Mining”, The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, (DBKDA 2011), January 23-28, 2011 St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles
  10. N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi, "Apply data mining and natural computing in detecting suspicious cases of money laundering in an investment bank: A case study", The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), December 14-17, 2010, Sydney, Australia
  11. N-A. Le-Khac, M. Bue, M. Whelan and M-T. Kechadi, "A knowledge-based data reduction for very large spatio-temporal datasets", The 6th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2010), Springer Verlag LNAI, November 19-21, 2010, ChongQing, China
  12. N-A. Le Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, “Comparing Two Approaches of Disguising Transaction Data Applied in Dectecting Suspicious Cases of Money Laundering in an invesment Bank”, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE 2010), 16-18, November 2010, Chengdu, China
  13. N-A Le Khac, Sammer Markos and M-Tahar Kechadi, “Performance Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based Solution for Detecting Money Laundering in an Investment Bank”, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2010), July 11-14, 2010, Las Vegas, USA (acceptance rate: ~ 27%, impact factor: 0.8/1)
  14. Michael Whelan, N-A. Le-Khac and M-T. Kechadi, " Data Reduction in Very Large Spatio-Temporal Data Sets", IEEE International Workshop On Cooperative Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2010 (CDKDD-WETICE 2010), June 28 - 30, 2010, Larissa, Greece
  15. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, "A data mining-based solution for detecting suspicious money laundering cases in an investment bank", The Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA 2010), published by IEEE Xplore, April 11-16, 2010, French Alps, France
  16. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, "A heuristics approach for fast detecting suspicious money laundering cases in an investment bank", International Conference on Software and Knowledge Engineering(ICSKE 2009), Dec 25-27, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand,
  17. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, "Towards a new Data Mining-based approach for Anti Money laundering in an international investment bank", International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C 2009), Springer Verlag LNICST 31, September 30 - October 2, Albany, New York, USA
  18. N-A Le Khac, Sammer Markos, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon and M-Tahar Kechadi, “An Efficient Search Tool for an Anti-Money Laundering Application of an Multi-National Bank's Dataset”, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2009), July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA (acceptance rate: ~ 26%, impact factor: 0.8)
  19. N-A. Le-Khac, Sammer Markos and M-T. Kechadi, “An Investigation into Data Mining Approaches for Anti Money Laundering”, International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (ICKD 2009), June 6-8, 2009, Manila, Philippine (acceptance rate: ~40%)
  20. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-T. Kechadi, “Handling large volumes of mined knowledge with a self-reconfigurable topology on distributed systems”, IEEE Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA 2008), December 11-13, 2008, CA, USA (acceptance rate: ~22%)
  21. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, “Persistent Workflow on the Grid”, IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008) December 9-12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan
  22. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, “A Multi-Stage Clustering Algorithm for Distributed Data Mining Environments”, Colloque sur l’Optimisation et les Systeme d’Information (COSI’08), June 8-10 2008, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria (acceptance rate: 25%)
  23. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-T. Kechadi "An Efficient Support Management Tool for Distributed Data Mining Environments" 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (IEEE ICDIM'07), in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr, Computer society Press, October 28-31, 2007, Lyon, France. (acceptance rate 37%)
  24. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, “Grid-based Approach for Distributed Frequent Itemsets Mining using Dynamic Workload Management”, 2nd International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 2007 (IEEE ICAIT 2007), IEEE/ACM sponsors, November 1-2, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.
  25. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, "Grid-based Approaches for Distributed Data Mining applications", International Conference on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business, Engineering and Sciences (DCABES 2007), August 14-17, Hubei, China
  26. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, "Lightweight Clustering Technique for Distributed Data Mining Applications", 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007), Springer LNAI 4597, July 14-18, 2007, Leipzig, Germany. (acceptance rate 26%)
  27. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-Tahar Kechadi "A new approach for Distributed Density Based Clustering on Grid platform", The 24th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'07), Springer LNCS 4587, July 3-5, 2007, Glasgow, UK. (acceptance rate 26%)
  28. Lamine M. Aouad, N-A. Le-Khac and M-Tahar Kechadi, "Variance-based Clustering Technique for Distributed data mining Applications", The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07),June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA. (acceptance rate 28%)
  29. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-Tahar Kechadi, "Knowledge Map: Toward a new approach supporting the knowledge management in Distributed Data Mining", KUI track, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (IEEE ICAS 2007), Computer Society Press, June 19-25, 2007, Athens, Greece. (acceptance rate 27%)
  30. E. Edi, N-A. Le-Khac and J-M. Vicent "Task Granularity for computations caches" International Computer Science Congress (CICC'06), October 2006, Mexico.
  31. N-A. Le-Khac, M-Tahar Kechadi and J. Carthy, "ADMIRE framework: Distributed Data Mining on Data Grid platforms", International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2006), September 11-14, 2006, Setubal, Portugal. (acceptance rate 34%)
  32. N-A. Le-Khac, "Studying the performance of overlapping communication and computation by active message: Inuktitut case", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Network (PDCN'06), February 12-14, 2006, Innsbruck, Austria. (CORE Ranking: C)
  33. N-A. Le-Khac and E. Edi, "Performance evaluation of Inuktitut: an efficient interface for asynchronous parallel programming environment Athapascan", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'05), November 14-16, 2005, Phoenix, USA. (CORE Ranking: C)

Reviewed Abstracts:

  1. N-A. Le-Khac, Lamine M. Aouad and M-Tahar. Kechadi, "An Efficiently Knowledge Map layer for Distributed Data Mining on Grid platform", The 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering Stream), (Euro XXII 2007), July 8-11, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
  2. N-A. Le-Khac, H. Fu, M-Tahar Kechadi, "ADMIRE: A new framework for Distributed Data Mining on Grid Computing environments", International Marie Curie Conference (MC2'06), April 10-13, 2006, Manchester, UK.

Textbooks:

  1. N-A. Le-Khac, "An introduction to Operating System", Textbook, Vietnam National University-HoChiMinh City, 2000, Vietnam
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