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Biography

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Previously, I worked as a Senior Research Fellow and a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. I received a BEng degree (9/2006-6/2011) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam, and a PhD degree (9/2011-12/2015) in Computer Engineering from University of Ulsan, South Korea. My research focuses on leveraging advanced sensing, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), optimization, and control techniques to enhance the design, operation, and security of networked cyber-physical systems with direct applications in smart cities, autonomous driving, intelligent building control, and advanced manufacturing systems. 

Research Interest

• AIoT (AI + IoT), Edge/Cloud Computing

• Networked Sensing and Learning-based Control in Cyber-Physical Systems

• Thermal and Energy Management in Green Data Centers

• Self-Adaptive AIoT for Smart Manufacturing

Employments

• School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia 

  • Postdoctoral Fellow (4/2025-now)

• College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

  • Senior Research Fellow (7/2023 - 9/2024) 

  • Research Fellow (4/2018 - 6/2023) 

• Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Research Fellow (1/2016 - 3/2018)

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, South Korea

  • Research Assistant (9/2011 - 12/2015)

Award and Recognition

• ACM/IEEE ICCPS'23 Best Paper Award (HP-NTU Corp Lab News, NTU CCDS News)

• IEEE Senior Member

• Selected as an Outstanding Young Scientist to Attend Heidelberg Laureate Forum in 2020 and 2021

• Brain Korean 21 (BK21) Scholarship from 2013 to 2015

• University of Ulsan's Full Scholarship for Combined MS&PhD Program from 2011 to 2015. 

Funding and Projects

1. Air-Cooled Tropical Data Centre 2.0 

Technical Lead. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF). 3/2021 to 10/2024. As part of an NRF IAF-PP Programme (Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed), Reported by The Straits Times. 

2. AIoT for Smart Manufacturing

Technical Lead. Funded by Singapore Government for Industry Alignment Fund-Industry Collaboration Program through HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab. 12/2019 to 10/2023.

3. Development of a Novel Network Intrusion Detection System for Programmable Networking Devices 

Co-PI. Funded by Vietnam’s National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED). 2/2021 to 1/2023.

4. Tropical Data Centre Proof-of-Concept

Technical Lead. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) through Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore. 4/2018 to 12/2019.

5. Distributed Clouds: Peta-Scale Urban Sensing and Data Management

Technical Lead. Funded by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF). 1/2016 to 3/2018. As part of Phase I of NRF NUS-Shanghai Jiaotong University CREATE Programme on Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities (E2S2).

6. Network-based and Bio-Inspired Topology Control of Multiple Sensor Robots for Tracking and Monitoring Toxic Material

Key Member. Funded by National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. 9/2011 to 12/2013.

7. For Disaster Identify UAV Rapid Large-Scale Collaborative Network-based Surveillance Technology

Key Member. Funded by National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. 1/2014 to 12/2015.

Selected Publication (☞ Full List)

Names underlined are students and junior researchers who worked under my direct mentoring for the publication.

1. [ACM TOSN 2025] Siyuan Zhou, Duc Van Le, Linshan Jiang, Zhuoran Chen, Xiaohua Peng, Daren Ho, Jianmin Zheng, Rui Tan. RoboCam: Model-Based Robotic Visual Sensing for Precise Inspection of Mesh Screens. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

2. [IEEE TSUSC 2024] Duc Van Le, Jing Zhou, Rongrong Wang, Rui Tan, Fei Duan, "Impacts of Increasing Temperature and Relative Humidity in Air-Cooled Tropical Data Centers", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. [Data].

3. [ACM TOSN 2023] Duc Van Le, Joy Qiping Yang, Siyuan Zhou, Daren Ho, Rui Tan. Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of an Industrial AIoT System for Quality Control at HP Factories. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

4. [ACM/IEEE ICCPS 2023] Jiale Chen, Duc Van Le, Rui Tan, Daren Ho. BubCam: A Vision System for Automated Quality Inspection at Manufacturing Lines.The 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS). CPS-IoT Week 2023. Best Paper Award (1 out of 21 accepted papers selected from 82 submissions).

5. [IEEE TMC 2023] Jiale Chen, Duc Van Le, Rui Tan, Daren Ho. NNFacet: Splitting Neural Network for Concurrent Smart Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

6. [IEEE TMC 2022] Siyuan Zhou, Duc Van Le, Rui Tan, Joy Qiping Yang, and Daren Ho. Configuration-Adaptive Wireless Visual Sensing System with Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

7. [IEEE TSUSC 2022] Duc Van Le, Yingbo Liu, Rongrong Wang, Rui Tan, Lek Heng Ngoh. Air Free-Cooled Tropical Data Center: Design, Evaluation, and Learned Lessons. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. [Data]. 

8. [Elsevier FGCS 2022] Yingbo Liu, Duc Van Le, Rui Tan. A Data-Assisted First-Principle Approach to Modeling Server Outlet Temperature in Air Free-Cooled Data Centers. Future Generation Computer Systems.

9. [ACM TCPS 2022] Rongrong Wang, Duc Van Le, Rui Tan, Yew-Wah Wong, “Real-Time Cooling Power Attribution for Co-Located Data Center Rooms with Distinct Temperatures and Humidities. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems.

10. [ACM TOSN 2021] Duc Van Le, Rongrong Wang, Yingbo Liu, Rui Tan, Yew-Wah Wong, Yonggang Wen. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tropical Air Free-Cooled Data Center Control. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Internet of Things). 

11. [IEEE TVT 2018] Duc Van Le and Chen-Khong Tham. Quality of Service Aware Computation Offloading in Ad-Hoc Mobile Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

12. [IEEE GLOBECOM 2017] Duc Van Le and Chen-Khong Tham. An Optimization-based Approach to Offloading in Ad-Hoc Mobile Clouds", IEEE Global Communications Conference.

13. [IEEE ICPADS 2017] Duc Van Le and Chen-Khong Tham. Machine Learning (ML)-based Air Quality Monitoring using Vehicular Sensor Networks. IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

14. [IEEE Sensors 2016] Duc Van Le, Hoon Oh, Seokhoon Yoon. Environment Learning (EL)-based Coverage Maximization with Connectivity Constraints in Mobile Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal. 

15. [Elsevier AdHocNet 2015] Duc Van Le, Hoon Oh, Seokhoon Yoon. VirFID: A Virtual Force (VF)-based Interest-driven Moving Phenomenon Monitoring Scheme using Multiple Mobile Sensor Nodes. Ad Hoc Networks.

Standard

1. "Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment", Singapore Standard 715:2025, August 2025. Role: Working Group Member.

2. "Deployment and Operation of Data Centre IT Equipment under Tropical Climate", Singapore Standard 697:2023, June 2023. Role: Working Group Member.

Invited Talks/Seminars

1. "Advanced IoT in Industry", 2024 International Workshop on Intelligent Embedded Security for Internet of Things Systems, 23 July 2024, NTU Singapore.

2. "Impacts of Increasing Temperature and Relative Humidity Setpoints in Air-Cooled Data Centers", 2023 ASHRAE Annual Conference, 26 June 2023.

3. "Tropical Data Centers", TC 9.9 Committee Meeting, 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference, 06 Feb 2023.  

Professional Activities

• For Government and Industry

  • Working Group Member on Development of New Standard on Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment, Green IT Technical Committee, appointed by IMDA, 2023-2025.

  • Working Group Member on Development and Operation of Data Centre IT Equipment under Tropical Climate (Singapore Standard: SS 697:2023), Green IT Technical Committee, appointed by IMDA, 2021-2023. IMDA' News

  • Singapore's Tropical Data Centre Guidelines Working Group Member, appointed by  Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), 2018-2019.

  • Technical Consultant (Remote), Viettel R&D Institute, Viettel High Tech, Vietnam, 2016-2017.

• Conference Chair

  • Registration Chair, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Application (RTCSA 2025)

• TPC Member

  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024

  • ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), 2023, 2024, 2025

  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Artifact Evaluation Committee, 2022, 2023, 2024 

  • The 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2023)

  • IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies, 2021

  • IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Fog/Edge Computing (AFEC) in ICCCN, 2020-2022. 

  • First International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (RLEM) in conjunction with ACM BuildSys, 2020.

• Reviewer (record verified by WoS)

  • Transactions/Journals: IEEE TII, IEEE TVT, IEEE TMC, ACM TOSN, IEEE TCCN, IEEE WCM, IEEE TWC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE IoT-J, IEEE Sensor Journal, IEEE Communications Letter. 

  • Conferences: IEEE INFOCOM (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), IEEE ICC (2019),  IEEE SECON (2022).