Manh Khanh Ngo Huu

School of Computing and Information Systems

Singapore Management University

Singapore

I am a PhD student (2025 intake) at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, supervised by Prof. Hady W. Lauw. My PhD studies are fully funded by the Vingroup Young Talent Scholarship.

My current research focuses on Large Language Models and Generative Recommendation Systems.

Previously, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Honors) from the University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (2019–2023), under the supervision of Dr. Vinh-Tiep Nguyen.

news

Aug 01, 2026	Awarded the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship for AY2026.
Jul 20, 2026	Attending SIGIR 2026 to present our work.
Apr 03, 2026	Our paper “Verbalizing LightGCN: Direct Learning of Textual Representations from User-Item Interaction Graph via LLMs” was accepted at SIGIR 2026!
Jan 01, 2025	Started my PhD at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, supervised by Prof. Hady W. Lauw. Funded by the Vingroup Young Talent Scholarship.

selected publications

SIGIR

Verbalizing LightGCN: Direct Learning of Textual Representations from User-Item Interaction Graph via LLMs

Manh Khanh Ngo Huu and Hady W. Lauw

In Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2026

To appear

Bib

@inproceedings{ngohuu2026verbalizing,
  title = {Verbalizing LightGCN: Direct Learning of Textual Representations from User-Item Interaction Graph via LLMs},
  author = {Ngo Huu, Manh Khanh and Lauw, Hady W.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
  pages = {1393--1403},
  year = {2026},
  note = {To appear},
}

IEEE MM

STERR-GAN: Spatiotemporal Rerendering for Facial Video Restoration

Manh Khanh Ngo Huu, Vinh Ngo, Bich-Nga Pham, and 2 more authors

IEEE MultiMedia, 2025

Bib

@article{ngohuu2025sterrgan,
  title = {STERR-GAN: Spatiotemporal Rerendering for Facial Video Restoration},
  author = {Ngo Huu, Manh Khanh and Ngo, Vinh and Pham, Bich-Nga and Luu, Duc-Tuan and Nguyen, Vinh-Tiep},
  journal = {IEEE MultiMedia},
  volume = {32},
  number = {4},
  pages = {45--57},
  year = {2025},
}

MTAP

Abstraction-perception preserving cartoon face synthesis

Sy-Tuyen Ho, Manh Khanh Ngo Huu, Thanh-Danh Nguyen, and 5 more authors

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023
MAPR

Antique Photo Restoration and Colorization via Generative Model

Manh Khanh Ngo Huu, Vinh Quang Ngo, Thanh-Danh Nguyen, and 2 more authors

In 2022 International Conference on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition (MAPR), 2022
MAPR

Multilingual-GAN: A Multilingual GAN-based Approach for Handwritten Generation

Manh Khanh Ngo Huu, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Vinh-Tiep Nguyen, and 1 more author

In 2021 International Conference on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition (MAPR), 2021