Bio

Le-Nam Tran received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2003 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in radio engineering from Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, Ireland. From 2010 to 2014, he held postdoc positions at the Signal Processing Laboratory, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2010-2011), and at Centre for Wireless Communications and the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland (2011-2014). 

His research interests are primarily on applications of optimization techniques in wireless communications design. Some recent topics include energy-efficient communications, physical layer security, cloud radio access networks, cell-free massive MIMO, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. He has published more than 130 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. 

 Dr. Tran is an Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and IEEE Communications Letters. He was the Symposium Co-Chair of Cognitive Computing and Networking Symposium of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC 2016) and was the Co-Chair of the Workshop on Scalable Massive MIMO Technologies for Beyond 5G at IEEE ICC 2020. He is also a reviewer for many top-tier international journals on signal processing and wireless communications, and has also been a Technical Programme Committee Member for several flag-ship international conferences in related fields.  He is a co-recipient of an IEEE PIMRC 2020 Best Student Experimental Paper Award and an IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 Best Paper Award.

Research Interests

My research interests are on general signal processing techniques for wireless communications. I currently work on the following  categories

• Applications of (convex and nonconvex) optimization techniques for wireless communications

• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (a.k.a. Intelligent Reflecting Surface)

• Massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO

• Full-duplex transmit design

• Physical layer security

• Energy-efficient communications

• Cloud radio access networks (CRANs)

Current PhD students

• Duc-Tung Bui (Sep. 2022 - present)

• Zhe Cui (Sep. 2022 - present)

Current Postdoctoral Researchers

• Eduard Elias Bahingayi

Past PhD Students

• Muhammad Farooq (2019 - 2023, primary supervisor, UCD)

• Anshu Mukherjee (2018 - 2023, primary supervisor, UCD)

• Nam-Tran Le (2017 - 2020, co-supervised with Dr. Dhammika Jayalath, Queensland University of Technology)

• Minh-Thuy Pham (2015 - 2019, co-supervised with Prof Ronan Farrell, Maynooth University)

• Kien-Giang Nguyen (2014 - 2019, co-supervised with Prof Makku Juntti, University of Oulu)

• Oskari Tervo (2014 - 2018, co-supervised with Prof Makku Juntti, University of Oulu)

• Ganesh Venkatraman (2014 - 2018, co-supervised with Prof Makku Juntti, University of Oulu)

• Phuong Luong (2015 - 2018, co-supervised with Prof Francois Gagnon, École de technologie supérieure)

• Quang-Doanh Vu (2012 - 2015, co-supervised with Prof Een-Kee Hong, Kyung Hee University)

Past Postdoctoral Researchers

• Van Thang Nguyen (2018 - 2020)

• Quang-Doanh Vu (2019, visiting postdoc)

• Vaibhav Kumar (2020 - 2022)