An Vo

An Vo is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Prior to this, he was a research scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe (now NAVER LABS Europe), France. Previously, he was a System Analyst and Software Engineer in Singapore.

Dr. Vo obtained a PhD in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning) from University of Trento and research center Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

His research interests lie in Agentic AI, AI4Code, AI for IT Automation, and NLP topics (e.g. Information Extraction, Semantic Similarity/Relatedness, Textual Entailment, Paraphrasing, Question Answering, Natural Language Interface to Databases, Sentiment Analysis).

Professional Services

1. Member of IBM Invention Development Team (IDT)
2. Member of IBM Open Innovation Community (OIC)
3. Regular Program Committee and Reviewer for:

• Conferences: ARR, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, NAACL, EACL, iSEC@FDSE, BigDML.
• Journals: Knowledge-based Systems, Computer Speech and Language, Applied Intelligence.
• Workshops: SemEval, Natural Language Processing meets Journalism (NLPJ).
• Session Chair: KDIR 2016.

Honors and Awards

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards (OTAA) (2026, 2023, 2021)
• IBM Research Accomplishments (2025, 2022, 2020)
• Best Paper Award Finalist (Agentic AI for Financial Services, AAAI 2026)
• IBM Council for Innovation Leadership Award for essential contributions to IBM's patent process and support of inventor community (2025)
• IBM Tech (San Diego) 2025 Awardee
• IBM Special Accomplishment for Watsonx Code Assistant (WCA) for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed (2023)
• IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards
• Best Long Paper Award Finalist (KDIR 2016)
• Google Grant for Google NLP PhD Summit (2015)
• US National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Grant (NAACL 2015)
• ICT Doctoral Grant from University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) (2012 - 2016)
• High Distinction Master in Information Technology, James Cook University in Singapore (2011)