Office: Room B3.09, Chesham Building, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
Email: v.mai@bradford.ac.uk or m.v.vuong@ieee.org
UoB link: https://www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/vmai/
Vuong Mai is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Engineering and a member of the Centre for Space AI at the University of Bradford, UK. He was formerly a Research Assistant Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. His research interests include optical wireless communications and space technologies.
Technical Program Committee Member, Optical Networks & Systems Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026
UK Co-lead, Grant from UK–Vietnam iTechPath Programme funded by British Council, 2025
Member of International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) Peer Review College, 2025
Global Talent endorsed by Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), 2025
Speaker at Innovation Programme Spotlight, TNC (co-funded by Europe’s NRENs and European Union), 2025
Fellow of Advance HE, 2025
Technical Program Committee Member, Selected Areas in Communications: Satellite and Space Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024, 2025
Technical Program Committee Member, International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 2024, 2025
Program Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Aerial Access and Applications (IAAA), 2025
Best Paper Award, IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks, and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2024
PI, Grant from GÉANT (Gigabit European Academic Network) Innovation Programme, 2024
PI, Grant from Space Placements in Industry (SPIN) Programme funded by UK Space Agency, 2024
Technical Program Committee Member, Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications: Energy Efficiency, Resilience, and Pervasive Coverage, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024
Local Chair, SatNEx (European Space Agency’s Satellite Network of Experts) School, 2023
Invited Speaker, IEEE Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2023
Invited Speaker, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2023
Session Chair and Technical Program Committee Member, International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 2023
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023
STEM Ambassador, UK, 2023
Technical Program Committee Member, Selected Areas in Communications: Satellite and Space Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023
Technical Program Committee Member, Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023
Technical Program Committee Member, Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2023
Invited Speaker, Optica Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom), 2022
Invited Speaker, Conference on Optoelectronics and Optical Communications (COOC), 2022
Invited Paper, IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021
Invited Paper, APL Photonics, 2021
Invited Speaker, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2021
Invited Speaker, NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), 2019
Invited Speaker, Photonics Conference (PC), 2019
First Best Paper Award, International Conference on Telecommunication (ICT), 2019
Best Paper Award, International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), 2018
GCORE Postdoctoral Fellowship, KAIST Global Center for Open Research with Enterprise, Korea, 2018 ~ 2019
BK21+ Postdoctoral Fellowship, KAIST BK21 Plus Foundation, Korea, 2017 ~ 2018
Founding Member/Vice President, IEEE Student Group at UoA, 2015 ~ 2016
Young Researcher Encouragement Award, IEEE VTS Tokyo Chapter, Japan, 2016
Student Excellent Research Award, IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter, Japan, 2015
IEEE GLOBECOM Travel Grant Award, National Science Foundation, USA, 2015
IEEE/IET CSNDSP Travel Grant Award, IEEE UK Communications Chapter, UK, 2014
President's Award of Excellence for Masters Study, UoA, Japan, 2014
IEEE Sendai Section Student Award, IEEE Sendai Section, Japan, 2013
Japanese Government Scholarships for Graduate Study, UoA, Japan, 2012 ~ 2017
Distinguished Student Award for Undergraduate Study, PTIT, Vietnam, 2012
Vietnamese Government Scholarships for Undergraduate Study, PTIT, Vietnam, 2007 ~ 2012