Tuan Minh Dang

Tuan Minh Dang

PhD Student in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Arlington
txd0904@mavs.uta.edu

About

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington, focusing on machine learning, natural language processing, and animal computational linguistics. My supervisor is Dr. Kenny Zhu, who leads our research lab, the Arlington Computational Linguistics Lab (ACL^2). Previously, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Data Science from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Timeline

2024- Phd in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington, with a focus in Artificial Intelligence.
(2025-2026) Graduate Mentor for the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program: Animal Language Processing and Understanding.
(2025-2026) Web Developer for the CSE department at UT Arlington, responsible for developing and maintaining our department’s internal web applications.
2019-2024 BSc at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois) with a double major in Computer Science and Data Science.
(2020-2024) Teaching Assistant and Tutor in Computer Science and Math.
(Summer 2022) Data Scientist Intern at The Home Depot.
(Summer 2023) Software Engineer Intern at Centene Corporation.

Publications

Audio-Visual Dog Identification and Tracking in Real-World Videos
Aryahvishwa Babu, Kingsley Jin, Lillian Wang, Tuan M Dang, Theron S Wang, Jeorge Joshi, Annie Cao, Kenny Q Zhu
arXiv 2026
A Preview of Computational Animal Linguistics
Tuan M. Dang, Atrey Desai, Hridayesh Lekhak, Tirza Panunto, Lindsay Pike, Theron S. Wang, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACM Computing Surveys 2026
Towards Distance-Aware Synthetic Audio Mixtures for Universal Sound Separation
Wonjun Park, Tuan M. Dang, Kenny Q. Zhu
ICASSP 2026
Unsupervised Discovery and Analysis of the Vocal Repertoires and Patterns of Select Corvid Species
Nitin Sudarsanam, Sahla Kader, Isaac Fernandezlopez, Sophie Huang, Tuan M. Dang, Theron S. Wang, Hridayesh Lekhak, Kenny Q. Zhu
ICASSP 2026
EmotionalCanines: A Dataset for Analysis of Arousal and Valence in Dog Vocalization
Tuan M. Dang, Theron S. Wang, Hridayesh Lekhak, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACM Multimedia 2025
DogSpeak: A Canine Vocalization Classification Dataset
Hridayesh Lekhak, Theron S. Wang, Tuan M. Dang, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACM Multimedia 2025
A Data-driven Approach to the Longitudinal Study of Canine Vocal Pattern Development
Hridayesh Lekhak, Tuan M. Dang, Theron S. Wang, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACM Multimedia 2025
Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet
Theron S. Wang, Xingyuan Li, Hridayesh Lekhak, Tuan M. Dang, Mengyue Wu, Kenny Q. Zhu
ACL 2025

Miscellaneous