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Istiaque Ahmed; Kentaroh Toyoda; Tadashi Nakano; Shoji Kasahara; Somya R. Goyal; Thi Hong Tran, "A Systematic Review on Blockchain-Enabled eKYC: Leveraging SSI and DID for Secure and Efficient Identity Verification," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 21, pp. 44381-44401, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3597356. Link
Minh Tai Pham Nguyen, Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen, Hoang Viet Anh Le, Minh Khue Phan Tran, Tadashi Nakano , Thi Hong Tran, "Partial feature reparameterization and shallow-level interaction for remote sensing object detection," Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 28629 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-14035-7, August 2025. link
Hoang Viet Anh Le *,Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen, Nakano Tadashi andThi Hong Tran*, "Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management System with AI and Merkle Trees," Computers 2025, 14(7), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers14070289, July 2025. link
Minh Tai Pham Nguyen, Minh Khue Phan Tran, Tadashi Nakano, Thi Hong Tran, Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen*D , "Partial Attention in Global Context and Local Interaction for Addressing Noisy Labels and Weighted Redundancies on Medical Images ," Journal of Sensors 2025, 25(1), 163; DOI: 10.3390/s25010163, Dec. 2024. (30 pages)
Minh Tai Pham Nguyen, Minh Khue Phan Tran, Tadashi Nakano, Thi Hong Tran, Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen*D , "An Approach for Detecting Parkinson’s Disease by Integrating Optimal Feature Selection Strategies with Dense Multiscale Sample Entropy, " Journal of Information, Special Issue: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 16(1), 1; DOI: 10.3390/info16010001, Dec. 2024. (26 pages)
Hironori Tanise, Istiaque Ahmed, Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen, Thi Hong Tran*,"A Reliable and Secure Crowdfunding Platform Using Decentralized Blockchain," REV Journal on Electronics and Communications, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 30 – 38, DOI: 10.21553/rev-jec.365, Sep. 2024.
Vu Trung Duong Le*, Hoai Luan Pham, Thi Hong Tran, Van Duy Tran, Tuan Hai Vu, Yasuhiko Nakashima,"CTFE: A High-Efficient Heterogeneous Cryptographic CGRA for Diverse Security Applications," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3490176, Nov. 2024.
Quoc Duy Nam Nguyen, Hoang Viet Anh Le, Tadashi Nakano, Thi Hong Tran, “Wine quality assessment through lightweight deep learning: integrating 1D-CNN and LSTM for analyzing electronic nose VOCs signals,” Applied Computing and Informatics, DOI: 10.1108/ACI-10-2023-0098, March 1 2024. link
Istiaque Ahmed, Kai Fumimoto, Tadashi Nakano, Thi Hong Tran, “Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Philanthropic Charity for Social Good,” Sustainability Journal, Special Issue: Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), Dec. 2023. Link
Tran, V.D.; Ata, S.; Thi Hong Tran*; Lam, D.K.; Pham, H.L. Blockchain-Powered Education: A Sustainable Approach for Secured and Connected University Systems. Sustainability 2023, 15, 15545. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115545, link (IF = 3.9)
Le Vu Trung Duong*, Hoai Luan Pham, Thi Hong Tran, and Y.Nakashima: "Flexible and Energy-efficient Crypto-Processor for Arbitrary Input Length Processing in Blockchain-based IoT Applications", IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol.E107-A,No.3, DOI: 10.1587/transfun.2023CIP0013, 2023 Sept. 4th (2024), link
H. L. Pham*, T. H. Tran, V. T. Duong Le and N. Yasuhiko, "Flexible and Scalable BLAKE/BLAKE2 Coprocessor for Blockchain-Based IoT Applications," in IEEE Design & Test, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 15-25, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MDAT.2023.3276936. Link
Atsuki Koyama ,Van Chuong Tran, Manato Fujimoto ,Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, and Thi Hong Tran*, "A Decentralized COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking System Using Blockchain Technology," Journal of Cryptography 2023, 7(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography7010013. Link
Van Duy Tran, Duc Khai Lam*, and Thi Hong Tran, "Hardware-Based Architecture for DNN Wireless Communication Models," Journal of Sensors 2023, 23(3), 1302; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031302. Link
H. L. Pham, T. H. Tran*, V. T. D. Le and Y. Nakashima, "Compact Message Permutation for a Fully Pipelined BLAKE-256/512 Accelerator," in IEEE Access, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3181410, June 8th 2022. Link
H. L. Pham, T. H. Tran*, V. T. Duong Le and Y. Nakashima, "A High-Efficiency FPGA-Based Multimode SHA-2 Accelerator," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 11830-11845, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3146148, Jan. 25th 2022. (rank: Q1, IF = 3.75) Link
V. T. Duong Le, T. H. Tran*, H. L. Pham, D. K. Lam and Y. Nakashima, "MRSA: A High-Efficiency Multi ROMix Scrypt Accelerator for Cryptocurrency Mining and Data Security," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 168383-168396, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3131558, Nov. 30th 2021, (rank: Q1, IF = 3.75) Link
NO Lam, D.K.; Le, V.T.D.; T.H. Tran. ”Efficient Architectures for Full Hardware Scrypt-Based Block Hashing System” Electronics Journal 2022, 11, 1068. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071068 , 2022 March.
T. H. Tran*, H. L. Pham, T. D. Phan and Y. Nakashima, "BCA: A 530-mW Multicore Blockchain Accelerator for Power-Constrained Devices in Securing Decentralized Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 4245-4258, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2021.3102618. Link
Thi Hong Tran*, H. L. Pham and Y. Nakashima, "A High-Performance Multimem SHA-256 Accelerator for Society 5.0," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 39182-39192, March 2021, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3063485. (ranking Q1, Impact factor = 3.75) (研究費: JST PRESTO 2020A031) Link
H.L. Pham, Thi Hong Tran*, T.D. Phan, V.T.D. Le, D.K. Lam, Y. Nakashima, “15-Gbps Double SHA-256 Hardware Architecture with Compact Message Expander for Bitcoin Mining,” IEEE Access journal, vol. 8, pp: 139634 – 139646, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3012581, July 2020. (ranking Q1, Impact factor = 3.75) (研究費: JST PRESTO 2019A039 + KYODO-2020) Link
D.L. Hoang, Thi Hong Tran*, Y. Nakashima, “A Low Complexity Join-Encryption-Modulation Method for IoT Sensor Transceivers,” Electronics Journal, 2020, 9(4), 663, DOI: 10.3390/electronics9040663, April 2020. (ranking Q2, Impact factor = 2.41) (研究費: KAKENHI 16K18105) Link
Duc Phuc Nguyen*, Dinh Dung Le, Thi Hong Tran, Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, “Hardware Architecture of Visible Light Communication Transmitter and Receiver for Beacon-based Indoor Positioning Systems,” REV Journal on Electronics and Communications, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.30-44, Dec. 2019, link: https://www.rev-jec.org/index.php/rev-jec/article/view/234 ( 研究費: KAKENHI 16K18105 + KYODO-2018)
Dinh-Dung Le*, Duc-Phuc Nguyen, Thi Hong Tran, Yasuhiko Nakashima, “Log-Likelihood Ratio Calculation using 3-bit Soft-Decision for Error Correction in Visible Light Communication Systems,” Special section on Information Theory and Its Applications, IEICE trans. Fundamentals, Vol.E101-A, No.12, pp.2210-2212, Dec. 2018. (ranking Q3, Impact Factor = 0.47) (研究費: KAKENHI 16K18105) Link
Dinh-Dung Le*, Duc-Phuc Nguyen, Thi Hong Tran, Yasuhiko Nakashima: "Joint Polar and Run-length Limited Decoding Scheme for Visible Light Communication Systems", IEICE Communications Express Letter, Vol.7, Issue 1, pp.19-24, Jan. 2018. (ranking Q3, Impact Factor = 1.4 ) (研究費: KAKENHI 16K18105 + KYODO-2018) Link
Duc Phuc Nguyen*, Thi Hong Tran, Yasuhiko Nakashima: "A Multi-mode Error-Correction Solution based on Split-Concatenation for Wireless Sensor Nodes", Journal of Communication, ISSN 1796-2021, vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 130-136, DOI: 10.10720/jcm.12.2.130-136. (研究費: KAKENHI 16K18105 + NAIST START-UP)
Thi Hong Tran*, Yuhei Nagao, and Hiroshi Ochi，“Algorithm and Hardware Design of A 2D Sorter-based K-best MIMO Decoder,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.2014, 2014:93, DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2014-93, Jun. 2014. (ranking Q2, Impact Factor = 1.83) Link
Thi Hong Tran*, Leonardo Lanante JR., Yuhei Nagao, and Hiroshi Ochi, “Hardware Design of Multi Gbps RC4 Stream Cipher,” 2013 IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E96-A, No. 11, pp. 2120 – 2127, Nov. 2013. (ranking Q3, Impact factor = 0.47) Link