Dr Phong Le

Dr Phong Le

Reader in Machine Learning

Email
pl200@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research areas

I am a machine learning researcher with extensive experience in both academia and industry, specializing in natural language processing and machine learning. I am passionate about translating cutting-edge research into real-world applications, and I maintain a deep curiosity about fundamental scientific mysteries—particularly the emergence of human language.

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PhD supervision

  • AarushiÌýSharma
  • VictorÌýYuan

Selected publications

  • Siregar, N., Le, P. & G. Alhama, R., 21 Apr 2026, The evolution of language: proceedings of the 16th international conference on the evolution of language (EVOLANG XVI). Hartmann, S., Sibierska, M., Fröhlich, M., Jadoul, Y., Josserand, M., Matzinger, T., Mudd, K., Nölle, J., Pleyer, M., Wacewicz, S. & Å»ywiczyÅ„ski, P. (eds.). Nijmegen: The Evolution of Language Conferences, p. 435-442 8 p. (International conference on the evolution of language).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Golde, J., Jedema, N., Krishnan, R. & Le, P., 2026, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). p. 214–228

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access
    Nguyen, T., Le, P., Doerr, C. & Dang, N., Aug 2025, Proceedings of the 18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. ACM

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Nguyen, T., Le, P., Biedenkapp, A., Doerr, C. & Dang, N., Jul 2025, Proceedings of the genetic and evolutionary computation conference 2025 (GECCO '25). New York: ACM, p. 1162 - 1171

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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