The-Anh Ta

The-Anh Ta

About me

Hello, my name is The-Anh Ta (Tạ Thế Anh in Vietnamese). Since 8/2023, I have been working as a Research Scientist at Data61, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Marsfield, NSW, Australia. I do research in Machine Learning (Continual Learning, Backdoor Learning, Decision Making) and Cryptography (Zero-knowledge Proof, Digital Signature, Data Privacy), and problems at the intersection of these areas. This is the link to my GoogleScholar page.

Before moving to Australia, I was a researcher at the Information Security Division, KDDI Research Institute, Inc. in Saitama, Japan, from 11/2022 until 5/2023; and an AI Scientist at AI Center, FPT Software, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 05/2021 to 07/2023.

I obtained my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France on 09/2020. (Link to my thesis). Before moving to France in 2016, I did my undergraduate studies (BSc and MSc) in Mathematics at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, from 2011 to 2016.

I grew up in Vinh Phuc, Viet Nam.

Machine Learning:

I am interested in building robust algorithms and agents which can adapt to ever changing working environments.

Publications:

  1. Nam Phuong Tran, The-Anh Ta, Debmalya Mandal, Long Tran-Thanh, Symmetric Linear Bandits with Hidden Symmetry, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Poster, 2024. arxiv

  2. Nam Phuong Tran, The Anh Ta, Shuqing Shi, Debmalya Mandal, Yali Du, Long Tran-Thanh, Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Poster, 2024. arxiv

  3. Hoang Pham, The-Anh Ta, Anh Tran, Khoa Doan, Flatness-aware Sequential Learning Generates Resilient Backdoors, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral presentation, 2024. arxiv

  4. Hoang Pham, The-Anh Ta, Shiwei Liu, Lichuan Xiang, Dung Le, Hongkai Wen, Long Tran-Thanh, Towards Data-Agnostic Pruning At Initialization: What Makes a Good Sparse Mask?, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Poster, 2023. paper

  5. Minh Hieu Phan, The-Anh Ta, Son Lam Phung, Long Tran-Thanh, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Class Similarity Weighted Knowledge Distillation for Continual Semantic Segmentation, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Poster, 2022. Paper

Cryptography:

I am mainly interested in zero-knowledge proof, digital signature and data privacy.

Publications:

  1. Duy Tung Khanh Nguyen, Dung Hoang Duong, Willy Susilo, Yang-Wai Chow, The Anh Ta, HeFUN: Homomorphic Encryption for Unconstrained Secure Neural Network Inference, Future Internet, Volume 15, Issue 12, 12/2023.

  2. Thanh Xuan Khuc, Anh The Ta, Dung Hoang Duong, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, Kazuhide Fukushima, Shinsaku Kiyomoto, Logarithmic-Size (Linkable) Ring Signatures From Lattice Isomorphism Problems, International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, 12/2023.

  3. Ngoc Tuong Nguyen, Anh The Ta, Huy Quoc Le, Dung Hoang Duong, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, Kazuhide Fukushima, Shinsaku Kiyomoto, Efficient Unique Ring Signatures From Lattices, 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 09/2022.

Mathematics:

I work on the equivalence of differential geometric strutures.

  1. The-Anh Ta, On the distributions of quadratic residues and primitive roots over finite fields, Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica 54(4) (2017), 426–435.

  2. Wei-Guo Foo, Joel Merker, The-Anh Ta, Parametric CR-umbilical locus of ellipsoids in C2, Comptes Rendus Mathematique 356(2) (2018), 214-221.

  3. Zhangchi Chen, Wei-Guo Foo, Joel Merker, The-Anh Ta, Normal forms for rigid C21 hypersurfaces M5 in C3, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics 25(2) (2021), 333-364.

  4. Wei-Guo Foo, Joel Merker, The-Anh Ta, Rigid equivalences of 5 dimensional 2 nondegenerate rigid real hypersurfaces M5 in C3 of constant Levi rank 1, Michigan Mathematical Journal, Advance Publication, 1-26, (2021).

  5. Joel Merker, The-Anh Ta, Degrees $d \geq \big( \sqrt{n}\, \log\, n\big)^n$ and $d \geq \big( n\, \log\, n\big)^n$ in the Conjectures of Green-Griffiths and of Kobayashi, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, Volume 47, 305–358 (2022).

  6. Wei-Guo Foo, Joel Merker, The-Anh Ta, On Convergent Poincaré-Moser Reduction for Levi Degenerate Embedded 5-Dimensional CR Manifolds, New York Journal of Mathematics, Volume 28, (2022), 250-336.

  7. Zhangchi Chen, Wei Guo Foo, Joël Merker and The-Anh Ta, Lie-Cartan Differential Invariants and Poincaré-Moser Normal Forms: Confluences, Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica (2023).

Teaching:

  • CS330: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2022, Tan Tao University.
  • MATH210: Multivariable Calculus 2, Summer 2022, Tan Tao University.
  • Linear algebra for Machine learning, Fall 2022, FPT Software AI Residency program.