About Me

I am a PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park working with Prof. Furong Huang. Previously, I earned a Master's degree from the Singapore University of Technology and Design advised by Prof. Ngai-Man Cheung; and a Bachelor from the University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City working with Dr. Tiep Nguyen and Prof. Tam Nguyen.

I’m deeply interested in building trustworthy and reliable AI for multimodal and agentic systems.

Personal Interests

Ping Pong Cooking Hiking

Beyond research, I'm always up for a friendly ping pong match, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen or exploring scenic trails on a hike!

News

Sep, 2025 Started my PhD in CS at University of Maryland, College Park
Previous news
Sep, 2024 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024. Embedding dimension is key for ViT Out-of-Distribution generalization
Jul, 2024 One paper accepted to ECCV 2024. Skip connection reinforces adversary
Mar, 2024 One paper accepted to CVPR 2024. Transfer learning prevents data leakage
Jan, 2024 Started my Master of Engineering at SUTD

Education

Experience

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer (2025-now) NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACM MM, AAAI, CVPR
Journal Reviewer (2024-now) TMM

Selected Publications (First/Joint-First/Leading Author)

Selected: First/Joint/Leading-author works. Others: Works with my wonderful collaborators

SoundnessBench teaser
SoundnessBench: Can Your AI Scientist Really Tell Good Research Ideas from Bad Ones?

Sy-Tuyen Ho, Minghui Liu, Huy Nghiem, Furong Huang

Under Review
Memory Makes The Poison teaser
Memory Makes The Poison: Over Memorization Drives Visual Poisoning in LVLMs

Sy-Tuyen Ho, Y.R.A. Epa, K. Liu, X. Jiang, A. Kot, F. Huang, N.M. Cheung

Under Review
Model Inversion Evaluation teaser
Revisiting Model Inversion Evaluation: From Misleading Standards to Reliable Privacy Assessment

Sy-Tuyen Ho, K.J. Hao, N.B. Nguyen, A. Binder, N.M. Cheung

CVPR 2026 Findings
Vision Transformer NAS teaser
Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Sy-Tuyen Ho*, T.V. Vo*, S. Ebrahimkhani*, N.M. Cheung

NeurIPS 2024
Skip Connections teaser
On the Vulnerability of Skip Connections to Model Inversion Attacks

K.J. Hao*, Sy-Tuyen Ho*, N.B. Nguyen, N.M. Cheung

ECCV 2024
Model Inversion Robustness teaser
Model Inversion Robustness: Can Transfer Learning Help?

Sy-Tuyen Ho, K.J. Hao, K. Chandrasegaran, N.B. Nguyen, N.M. Cheung

CVPR 2024