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  • 2026 DAAD RISE Scholarship — $5,000
  • 2026 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
  • 2026 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
  • 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship — $7,500
  • 2025 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award (URSA) — $500
  • 2024 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Fellowship (URAP) — $4,500
  • 2024 People’s Choice Award, Association for Computing Machinery Projects
  • 2024 Leland Dillaha MSEE ’97 Undergraduate Scholarship — $1,000
  • 2022 National Merit Scholarship, UT Dallas — $3,000

2026

Extreme Summarization of Worldwide Scientific and Patent Document Clusters for Landscape Analysis
J. V. Le, Rebecca Gelles, Catherine Aiken, Katherine Quinn
Submitted to Scientometrics.
The Effect of Code Obfuscation on Human Program Comprehension
A. H. N. Nguyen†, J. V. Le†, Ilse Lahnstein Coronado, T. N. Nguyen
arXiv:2603.07668 [cs.SE]. † Co-first authors (equal contribution).
Do Machines Struggle Where Humans Do? LLM and Human Comprehension of Obfuscated Code
J. V. Le†, Anh Nguyen†, Tien Nguyen
Submitted to Automated Security Engineering (ASE). † Co-first authors (equal contribution).

2024

Code as Embedding as AI
K. Tanaka Ishii, J. V. Le
Submitted to Minds and Machines.

2026

Hot research topics in AI and cybersecurity: insights from the Map of Science
Emerging Technology Observatory (Substack) · May 19, 2026
New update to the Map of Science: Cluster titles and summaries
Emerging Technology Observatory (Substack) · Apr 27, 2026

2025

Computer Science Student Wins Goldwater Scholarship
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, UT Dallas
Biology, Computer Science Undergrads Win Goldwater Scholarships
UT Dallas News Center · May 28, 2025

2025

UTD CS 1337 — Computer Science I

2024

UTD CS 2336 — Computer Science II
UTD CS 1337 — Computer Science I
ICODE School — Introduction to Web Development

2023

UTD CS 1334 — Programming Fundamentals for Non-Majors
Garland ISD — Various mathematics courses

2025

Head Shape Analysis Using Custom Feature Extraction
UT Dallas Undergraduate Research Scholars Awards Symposium.

2024

Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Research: Practical Applications and Challenges
UT Dallas Summer Platform for Undergraduate Students.

2023

Coding Semantics: Sentiment Analysis for Movie Reviews
[Co-presented.] Association for Computing Machinery UT Dallas Research Conference.

  • Undergraduate Researcher, Dr. Tien Nguyen —
  • DAAD RISE, SprintML, CISPA Helmholtz Center —
  • Research Assistant, Dr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii —
  • Undergraduate Researcher, Dr. Ovidiu Daescu —
  • Research Intern, Hsu Lab —
  • Student Researcher, Dr. Doug DeGroot —

  • CSET, Georgetown University —
  • Onplanetz —
  • Relativity, AI Studio Fellow —

  • UT Dallas Office of Research —
  • Break Through Tech AI —
  • ACM UTD —
  • UTDesign —
  • Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting —

  • UT Design —
  • UTD Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers —
  • UTD Artificial Intelligence Society —