Le-Nam Tran Personal Webpage

Associate Professor,

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

University College Dublin,

Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Office Room: 152, Engineering Building

Email: nam.tran(at)ucd.ie

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Bio

Le-Nam Tran received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2003 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Radio Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at 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 leading institutions: first at the Signal Processing Laboratory, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2010-2011), and then at Centre for Wireless Communications and the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland (2011-2014).

His research focuses on the application of optimization techniques to wireless communications design. Recent topics of interest include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, stacked intelligent metasurfaces, energy-efficient communications, cloud radio access networks, and cell-free massive MIMO. He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 papers published in top-tier journals and flagship conference proceedings. He has secured more than €1.7M in research funding.

Dr. Tran serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and 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. Dr Tran is a Senior Member of IEEE and a regular reviewer for several leading international journals in signal processing and wireless communications. He has also been a Technical Programme Committee Member of several flagship international conferences in the field. Dr. Tran received the Science Foundation Ireland Career Development Award in 2018. 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)
Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM)
Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)
Massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO
Full-duplex transmit design
Physical layer security
Energy-efficient communications
Cloud radio access networks (CRANs)

Current PhD students

Meng Li (May. 2024 - present)
Thu-Trang Do (May. 2024 -present)
Duc-Tung Bui (Sep. 2022 - present)
Zhe Cui (Sep. 2022 - present)
Shuying Lin (visiting student: Sep 2024-Aug-2025)

Current Postdoctoral Researchers

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)