Nguyen Ha Thanh

Nguyen Ha Thanh is a researcher specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and law, with a focus on legal text processing and natural language processing (NLP). Based in Tokyo, he has made significant contributions to the AI and Juris Informatics community.

Education

• Ph.D. in Information Science: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), April 2019 – March 2022. Graduated as valedictorian.
• M.Sc. in Information Technology: University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University (VNU), December 2015 – November 2017. Graduated with distinction.
• B.A. in Business Law: School of Law, VNU, September 2014 – June 2017. Graduated with distinction.
• B.Sc. in Information Technology: University of Engineering and Technology, VNU, September 2011 – June 2015. Graduated as salutatorian.

Research Interests

• AI and Law
• Deep Learning
• Legal Text Analytics
• Long Document Processing
• Explainability/Interpretability of NLP Models
• Game Theory
• Logical Reasoning
• Fairness and Robustness of NLP Models
• Information Retrieval
• Low-resource Legal AI
• Legal Information Extraction
• Legal Knowledge Representation
• Smart Contracts
• Regulatory Technology (RegTech)

Professional Activities

• Reviews papers for top-tier conferences and journals in AI, NLP, and Legal Informatics.
• Organizes academic workshops and conferences in the field of AI and Law.
• Conducts research collaborations with international partners.
• Mentors graduate students and junior researchers.
• Participates in academic committees and research groups.
• Advises startups on AI and state-of-the-art technology.
• Participates in investments.
• Engages in content creation.

Achievements

• Honda Y-E-S Award: Received in 2015, honoring exceptional achievements in engineering and science.
• COLIEE Competition: Contributed to the JNLP team’s first-place wins in both Task 2 and Task 4 at the 2020 Competition on Legal Information Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE).

Publications

Nguyen Ha Thanh has authored numerous papers in the field of AI and law. Notable publications include:

• “A Brief Report on LawGPT 1.0: A Virtual Legal Assistant Based on GPT-3”: Introduces LawGPT 1.0, a virtual legal assistant built on GPT-3, fine-tuned for the legal domain.
• “Transformer-based Approaches for Legal Text Processing”: Discusses the use of Transformer-based models for various legal text processing tasks.
• “Toward Improving Attentive Neural Networks in Legal Text Processing”: Explores enhancements in attentive neural networks for automatic legal document processing.
• “Beyond Logic Programming for Legal Reasoning”: Examines challenges and opportunities in leveraging deep learning techniques for improving legal reasoning.

For a comprehensive list of his publications, refer to his Google Scholar profile.

Online Presence

• Personal Website
• GitHub
• Hugging Face
• ResearchMap
• LinkedIn

References

1. Applying AI in Legal Practice (written in Vietnamese)
2. Degree Conferment Ceremony of March FY2021 (written in Japanese)
3. Meeting the Team Behind the Vietnamese Math Chess on iOS and Android (written in Vietnamese)
4. Student Scientific Research Published in International Journals (written in Vietnamese)
5. Vietnamese Math Chess: A Product of Intelligence with Vietnamese Philosophy (written in Vietnamese)
6. Students Develop Unbeatable Vietnamese Chess Software (written in Vietnamese)
7. The Creator of the Vietnamese Math Chess (written in Vietnamese)
8. Scholarships for Young Vietnamese Engineers and Scientists (written in Vietnamese)
9. Impressive Finale of the FameLab Science Presentation Contest (written in Vietnamese)