Bui Thanh Tuong Thuy

Bui Thanh Tuong Thuy, PhD

UNESCO Chair, VinUniversity

Scientific Advisor — Linguistics

Agile Innovation Center

Project Director

College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Professional Profile

Dr. Thuy Bui leads initiatives at the Agile Innovation Center while maintaining an active role within the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity. With advanced degrees from prestigious institutions including the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota, she combines global experience with local impact in her scholarly pursuits.

Her research focuses on unraveling complex linguistic phenomena through interdisciplinary methods spanning syntax, semantics, and computational analysis. By investigating how humans process and generate language, her work directly informs advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language technologies.

Explore her full academic journey and contributions via her comprehensive ORCID profile linked here.

Core Research Areas

• Specializations: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Focus Topics: Pronoun resolution, Temporal reference

Notable Publications

1. Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui, Tran Phan, and Dien Dinh. 2026. Building a Corpus for Teaching Vietnamese to Foreigners. Journal of Language, 1, 13—22.
2. Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui, and Dien Dinh. 2026. Text-Type Variation in Vietnamese: Corpus Mining for Linguistic Features in Narrative and Non-Narrative Genres. Proceedings of the 7th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science, 221—225.
3. An-Vinh Luong, Diep Nguyen, Dien Dinh, and Thuy Bui. 2026. Assessing Vietnamese Text Readability Using Multi-Level Linguistic Features. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 11(8), 100—111.
4. Rudmila-Rodica Ivan and Thuy Bui. 2019. Vietnamese Anaphora: Binding Principles and the Lack Thereof. Proceedings of TripleA: Fieldwork Perspectives on the Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages, 5, 47—61.
5. Thuy Bui. 2019. Temporal Reference in Vietnamese. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics. Studies in Language Companion Series, 211, 115—140.
6. Thuy Bui. 2018. The Vietnamese Perfect. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 21(1), 249—266.
7. Thuy Bui. 2018. A Unified Account for Number Agreement in Algonquian Languages. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 52(1), 87—100.
8. Thuy Bui and Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, eds. 2016. SULA 9: Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. Amherst: GLSA.
9. Thuy Bui. 2016. Menominee Agreement: Two Probes for Two Hierarchies. ConSOLE XXIV: Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 414—427.
10. Thuy Bui and Deniz Özdemir, eds. 2015. NELS 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 1—3. Amherst: GLSA.

Academic Background

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2019)
• BA in English & Linguistics, University of Minnesota (2014)

Prestigious Recognitions

• Cognitive Science Society Initiative on Broadening Participation (2026)
• Ho Chi Minh City Science & Technology Program (2026)
• Hoa Sen University Research Grant (2026)
• UMass Research Fellowship (2018-2019)
• Doctoral Research Support, UMass (2015-2018)
• Graduate School Scholarship, UMass (2014-2015)
• UMinn Undergraduate Research Exchange (2013-2014)