Funding and Awards

Below are the list of selected ongoing/completed projects that I am a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I). I have secured research grants  added up to CAD 50M  from NSERC, UKRI-Horizon Europe, EPSRC, ESRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, British Council, Innovate UK, NI Department for Economy, UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), industry partners, and international funding bodies.  

Ongoing Projects:

The research project is "Next Generation Communications Technologies". This is funded by NSERC. 

The research project is "Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network". This is funded by DCMS. Check the news here 

Our research aims at tackling the climate change by using the advanced technology of 5G and AI for detecting and quantifying carbon dioxide and methane gasses in hard to reach areas (Arctic, wetlands). This is funded by UKRI-Horizon Europe | European Commission. 

The research project is "Towards Massive Connectivity to Enable Ultra-Reliable and Near Zero-Latency Communications"

The research project is "SPACE: Supportive environments for Physical and social Activity, healthy ageing and CognitivE health". This is funded by ESRC



Completed Projects:

The research project is "Ultra-Reliable and Near Zero-Latency Communications for Industry Automation". This is funded by DfE.

The research project is "Digital Twin for 6G Virtual Radio Access Networks". This is funded by industry partner.  

The research project is "Digital Twin for 6G ORAN". This is funded by EPSRC

The research project is "Phase 2 - D-Ron: Rogue behaviour detection in the drone swarms using digital twins". This is funded by Innovate UK

The research project is "D-Ron: Rogue behaviour detection in the drone swarms using digital twins". This is funded by Innovate UK

The research project is "Radio access technologies (RAT) for 5G and beyond-5G wireless networks". This is funded by industry partner. 

The research project is "Machine Learning-Enabled Intelligent 6G Networks". This is funded by EPSRC

The research project is "Big Data at the Heart of Preventing Landslides and Flash Floods in the Vietnam Mountainous Region". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Big Data Analytic for Coastal Hazards". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Flood monitoring using drones". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Drought AI: Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Livelihood Resilience in the coastal areas of Vietnamese Mekong Delta". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Building Public Health Resilience in Vietnam: An Early Warning System using Artificial Intelligence". This is funded by British Council

The research project is "Machine Learning-Aided Realtime Optimisation of Fly-by Air Quality Monitoring Systems". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Deep learning models for forecasting dengue fever based on climate data". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Meeting Future Wireless Capacity via Secure and Energy-Efficient Small-Cell Networks"

The research project is "Towards Risk Reduction and Resilience to Coastal Hazards: A Big Data Analytics Approach". This is funded by British Council

The research project is "Fly-by Flood Monitoring". This is funded by British Council

The research project is "Exploring the potential applications of machine learning for the erosion/accretion process of Vietnam beaches". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Machine Learning Paradigms for Massive IoT". This is funded by NI DfE

The research project is "Catastrophe Tolerance in Telecommunications Networks". This is funded by BEIS and won Newton Prize 2017.  

The research project is "IoT-RESA: An Internet of Things based Resilient, Efficient, and Safe Agriculture Ecosystem". This is funded by British Council

The research project is "Modelling, Analysis, and Design of Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks". This is funded by EPSRC. 

The research project is "Wireless Small-Cell Networks: Secure and Energy-Efficient Approach". This is funded by NI Department for the Economy.  

The research project is "Security Enhancement of Wireless Cognitive Radio by Hybrid Relaying and Relay Selection". This is funded by Royal Society.  

The research project is "Securing the Internet of Things from Wireless Channels". This is funded by Royal Society. 

This research is funded by Newton Fund on the project "Building a Foundation for Sustainable Development: Networked Societies for the Cities of Tomorrows"

This research is funded by Royal Academy of Engineering on the project "A Cross-Layer Modelling and Design for Software Defined 5G Networks in Smart Cities" 

This research is funded by Royal Academy of Engineering on the project "Energy Harvesting Enable Two-Way Relay Networks in D2D Communications: "An Optimization Design" 

This research is funded by Royal Academy of Engineering on the project "Modelling, Analysis and Design of 5G Self-Powered Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - A Stochastic Geometry Approach" 

This research is funded by British Council on the project "Self-Powered Multimedia Wireless System: An Application to Smart Cities" 

This research is funded by British Council on the project "Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Using a Cognitive Cooperation Paradigm"

Co-I Projects (outside UK): 

This research is funded by NAFOSTED on the project "Caching and Delivering in 5G Ultra-dense Networks: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization"

This research is funded by NAFOSTED on the project "Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Networks: Protocol Design and Performance Analysis"

This research is funded by NAFOSTED on the project "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Relay Networks under Impact of Hardware Impairment"

This research is funded by NAFOSTED on the project "Trusted Wireless Communications with Physical Layer Security: Design and Performance Analysis"

This research is funded by NAFOSTED on the project "Unified Framework for Performance Analysis on New Frontiers of Cognitive Relay Networks"

Awards:

            ·   Newton Prize 2017 

            ·   Best Paper Award - IEEE International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2019, Tangier, Morocco

           ·  Best Paper Award - IEEE Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 2017, London, UK  

·   Best Paper Award - IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016, Washington, DC  

·   Best Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, Sydney, Australia  

·   Best Paper Award - IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2013, Dresden, Germany  

·   Best Paper Award - 9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom) 2014, Maoming, China

·     Best Student Paper Finalist – 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS-09), Jan, 2009, San Diego, CA, 

·    Best Paper Award (First Class) in 2006 IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest, December, 2006