Trung Q. Duong (Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of EIC, Fellow of IET, Fellow of CAE, Fellow of AAIA) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and a Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has received the two prestigious awards from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), including: 1) RAEng Research Chair and 2) RAEng Research Fellow. In 2017, he was awarded the Newton Prize from the UK government. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (IF=34.4 and CiteScore=80).
His current research interests include:
quantum machine learning and quantum optimization
wireless communications and networks,
physical layer security and privacy
machine learning and realtime optimisation,
disaster management, smart agriculture, healthcare, air-quality, finance, climate change, and pharmacy.
As a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I), he has secured research grants added up to $63M+ (CAD). He has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2013, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016, 2019, 2022, IEEE Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 2017, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2019, 2023, 2024, and IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) 2023, 2024. He is listed as one of most-cited authors across all scientific fields by Scopus (all-time career).
Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (2025-present)
Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021 - present)
Editor of IEEE Communications Survey & Tutorials (2022 - 2024)
Editor of IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology (2021 - 2024)
Executive Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2020 - 2023)
Editor of IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications (2016 - 2022)
Editor of IEEE Trans on Communications (2015 - 2020)
Editor, Senior Editor, Lead Senior Editor, Executive Editor of IEEE Communications Letter (2013 - 2022)
He has 21,000+ citations with a h-index of 80 (Google Scholar). His citation profile in Google Scholar and in Web of Science ISI and in Scopus