Doan Nam Long Vu

I am a doctoral researcher at NLP for Expert Domains (ExpNLP) group affiliated with UKP lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt, working on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing for Mental Health.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025-present
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
M.Sc. in Informatik (Computer Science), 2021-2024
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
B.Sc. in Informatik (Computer Science), 2018-2022
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

07/2025: Starting from October 2025, I will be moving to NLP for Expert Domains (ExpNLP) group lead by Simone Balloccu Ph.D. and continue working on AI and NLP for Mental Health.
09/2024: The paper “Granularity is crucial when applying differential privacy to text: An investigation for neural machine translation” from my Master thesis has been accepted at EMNLP 2024 Findings.
09/2024: Starting from January 2025, I will be joining AI and NLP for Mental Health group lead by Dr. Shaoxiong Ji affiliated with Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at Technical University of Darmstadt as a Full-Time Research Assistant and Ph.D student.
06/2024: A paper accepted at ACL 2024 workshop on teaching NLP describing a course shared task that we organized at the Foundations of Language Technology (FoLT) course in 2023/2024 at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The shared task focuses on evaluating the output of LLMs in generating harmful answers to health-related clinical questions.
05/2024: I got my Master degree and officially graduated!
01/2024: Our paper “DP-NMT: Scalable Differentially-Private Machine Translation” has been accepted at EACL 2024 System Demonstration.
10/2022: I got COLING 2022 Outstanding paper award!
08/2022: The paper “Layer or Representation Space: What Makes BERT-based Evaluation Metrics Robust?” from my Bachelor thesis has been accepted at COLING 2022.
06/2022: I got my Bachelor degree and officially graduated!