Annual PhD monitoring committee of Hoang Long NGUYEN

On October 1st, the PhD committee meeting was held for Long Nguyen, a first-year PhD student in the RFAI group (https://www.rfai.lifat.univ-tours.fr/) and as well a lecturer of HDU-FET faculty (https://ktcn.hdu.edu.vn/)

Long is pursuing a PhD on the topic of “Multimedia, Multimodal and Explainable Fact-Checking.” The PhD committee is a mandatory process in French universities to evaluate a student’s progress and ensure they meet the requirements to continue their PhD. The evaluation was conducted by two reviewers: Petra Gomez (L3i Laboratory, La Rochelle, France) in the field of computer science and Gustavo Gomez-Mejia (PRIM, Tours, France) in communication and information.

​Long’s PhD is off to a great start with a first paper already published at ROMCIR 2026. He now has a second paper accepted for publication entitled “CrossTrans-MFC: An Effective Cross Transformer Approach for Multimedia Fact-Checking,” which will be presented at the international multimedia conference CBMI 2026, taking place this October in Toulouse, France.

​Future research perspectives for his work will cover various aspects, including scalability and explainability, incorporating user feedback from media experts.

​We wish Long Nguyen all the best as he continues his PhD, which covers cross-disciplinary fields at the intersection of computer vision, artificial intelligence, and data journalism.