Tuan-Anh Bui
Machine Learning Researcher in Generative AI and Trustworthy Machine Learning

Me and two boys
I am Research Fellow at the Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University. My research interest lies in the intersection between Generative AI and Trustworthy Machine Learning. For example, my research focuses on how to ensure that models like ChatGPT do not respond to harmful queries asking to create a bomb, or that models like Stable Diffusion do not generate sexual images. I got my Ph.D. from Monash University in November 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dinh Phung and Dr. Trung Le. My thesis can be found here.
Before that, I had one year working as Research Engineer at Credit AI Lab, Trusting Social, and two years working as Research Assistant at Singapore University of Technology and Design with Prof. Ngai Man Cheung and Dr. Trung Tran.
I am actively looking for an opportunity in both industry and academia. Please refer to my CV and reach out if you think I am a good fit.
news
May 20, 2025 | Proud to be selected as a Notable Reviewer at ICLR 2025! The award is given to those who reviewed four or more papers. In my case, I put considerable effort not only into the initial reviews but also into engaging in discussions with the authors — all with one goal in mind: identifying which aspects of the papers needed to be included or improved. It was neither an easy nor a quick task, requiring several hours just to read and understand each paper, followed by extensive effort during the rebuttal phase (one paper involved a total of 14 back-and-forth exchanges). This all happened while I was also busy in the role of an author myself. In the end, I raised the ratings of 3 out of the 4 papers I reviewed and supported their acceptance and they were indeed accepted! :D I’m glad to see that my efforts were recognized. |
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Mar 21, 2025 | It was a great pleasure for me to present our works about Unlearning Concepts to the Machine Learning team at Canva. The slides are available here. I’m glad to see many interesting and practical/industry-related questions from the audience and see how our research can be applied to their real-world problems. |
Feb 28, 2025 | I’m excited to share that I am officially a Chief Investigator of the Trustworthy Generative AI: Towards Safe and Aligned Foundation Models project, funded by the Department of Defence, Australia with an $800K AUD grant. The project focuses on four key areas of modern foundation models: Certification - Alignment - Multimodality - Personalization, where I am leading the Personalization stream. Our goal is to push the boundaries of safe and aligned generative AI, ensuring its responsible deployment in real-world applications. The project is led by Professor Dinh Phung and co-led by a team of experts from the Faculty of IT, Monash University, where I am honored to be part of. |
Feb 27, 2025 |
I’m excited to share that our paper “Preserving Clusters in Prompt Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation” (led by Long Vuong) has been accepted to CVPR 2025! ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Jan 23, 2025 |
Hooray! I’m thrilled to finally share that our work has been accepted to ICLR 2025! This is more than just an acceptance—I’m truly proud that all reviewers recognized and appreciated the originality and creativity of our approach to concept unlearning, with a clear motivation and comprehensive experiments. The paper can be found here ![]() ![]() ![]() |
latest posts
Mar 15, 2025 | MS-Diffusion - Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance (ICLR 2025) |
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Mar 14, 2025 | Unlearning LLMs |
Mar 8, 2025 | Foundation of Diffusion Models |