Dr. Diep N. Nguyen is currently the Director of Agile Communications and Computing group, Director of Transnational Education (Associate Dean T&L), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia  and holding adjunct positions at other universities in US, Vietnam, Japan. He received M.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and The University of Arizona (UA), respectively. 

His recent research interests are in the areas of computer networking, mobile computing, cyber security, wireless communications (5G/6G), and machine learning/AI application, with emphasis on systems' performance and security/privacy. His work, appeared in more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 5 filed patents, 7 technical reports, 5 book chapters, 7 books (published and in production), has attracted more than  $7 millions of funding from US National Science Foundation, Raytheon Missile Systems, Australian Research Council, Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Intel, US Air Force Research Lab, Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG). Nguyen also contributed to the founding of Food Agility CRC, a $150 million initiative with 30 private sector, government, and research partners to empower Australia's food industry through digital transformation. 

He has supervised/mentored to completion 15 PhDs who are working as academics and holding senior industry positions in Australia, US, Europe, China, Vietnam and Indonesia (e.g., Samsung, Qualcomm,  Imperial College of London, Monash University, UNSW, Huawei). 

Before the current position, he was a DECRA Research Fellow, a member of technical staff at Broadcom (California), ARCON Corporation (Boston), consulting on fast detection of UAVs/aircrafts, air traffic control for FAA. He has received several awards from Australian Research Council, US National Science Foundation, University of Technology Sydney, LG Electronics, University of California San Diego, The University of Arizona, including the iAward by Australian Information Industry Association (2024), IoT Award by Australian IoT Alliance (2024), UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence (2021, 2025), Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA, 2015), outstanding Early Career Researcher Award (2018, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney). He co-founded and serves as a member of the executive board of UTS Joint Technology and Innovation Research Centers that foster research/technology exchange and collaboration of mutual interest between UTS and its partners (e.g., 5/6G, IoT, cybersecurity, AI,  industry 4.0, environmental engineering, sea monitoring systems). Dr. Nguyen also served in the International Advisory Board for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment, proposing economy: United States, Department of Labor). 

He has co-organized several IEEE and international conferences (e.g., IEEE VTC, INFOCOM, ISMICT, ISCIT, BODYNETS) as TPC chairs, co-chairs, track, session chairs. He has been invited to give keynotes, invited talks, and serve in the TPC committees of various IEEE and international annual flagship conferences, e.g., IEEE LANMAN, ICC, Globecom, WCNC. Dr. Nguyen is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials  (COMST), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Access, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), Sensors journal, and Scientific Reports.

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

• UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence (Supervisor of the Year Award, 2024)

• Featured on IEEE News on Consumer Technology, NCT: Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Agile Communications and Computing Group, 2024

• iAward by Australian Information Industry Association (2024)

• IoT Impact Award by Australian IoT Alliance (2024)

• HDR Supervisor of the Year, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, 2024 

• Highly Commended HDR Supervisor of the Year, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, 2023

• Finalist for Supervisor of the Year Award, UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence, 2022, 2023 

• UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence, 2021

• Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2021

• Supervisor, Google PhD Fellowship, PhD student Nguyen Van Huynh (1 out of 50 worldwide), 2020

• Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, 2018

• Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) by Australian Research Council, 2015

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Professional Service

Editorial Board 

• Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials  (COMST), 2022-present 

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2018-2023

• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), 2020-present

• Editor, Nature's Scientific Reports, 2021-present

• International Advisory Board member, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment, United States, Department of Labor)

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 Assessor and Panelist for Research Funding Agencies 

• US National Science Foundation

• Australian Research Council (Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Linkage Program)

• Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) 

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Service at University of Technology Sydney

• Member of UTS Academic Board

• Member of UTS Promotion Panel

• Member of UTS Courses Accreditation Committee

• Counselor of UTS IEEE Student Branch

• Co-founder of UTS Joint Technology and Innovation Research Center

• Founder and Chair of UTS Research School (2017-present)

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UTS site: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Diep.Nguyen/

The University of Arizona site (not maintained/updated since 2015): http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dnnguyen/index.htm