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• AI/Machine Learning Applications
• Wireless and Network Security and Privacy
• Mobile Computing, Data Analytics
• Wireless Communications, 5G, 6G, Internet of Things
• Network Economics
• Game Theory
• Algorithm and Protocol Design
• Optimization
Selected Projects and Grants
Australia-Vietnam 5G/6G Centre, ($2,115,000 by DFAT, 2024-2025)
6G Security ($315,000 by DSTG, 2024-2025)
5G/6G Security and Its Applications to Defence, ($285,000 by DSTG, 2022-2023)
Digital Transformation for Effective Management of Disaster Responses and Search-and-Rescue, ($440,000 by DFAT, 2021-2023)
UTS Rapido Vietnam: Water Systems with Industry 4.0 Technology Implementation to Enable Sustainable Communities, Aus4Innovation Program, ($997,000 by DFAT, 2019-2023)
Unleashing Opportunities in Vietnam Innovation Ecosystem for Australia’s Technology-based SMEs, ($200,000 by DFAT, 2021-2023)
Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme: Reliable Technologies and Models for Verified Wireless Body-Centric Transmission and Localization, (€1,002,800 by European Commission and others, 2018-2025)
Developing integrated undersea acoustic communications and sensing prototype based on orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) signaling, (A$499,000 by NSW Defence Innovation Network, 2022-2023)
Google PhD Fellowship, ($15,000 by Google 2020)
Ubiquitous Communications or 5G Networks, ($245,000 by Intel, 2018-2019)
Massive MIMO for Tactical Communications between Army Vehicles, ($550,000 by Australia Defence Science and Technology Group, 2018-2021)
Miniaturised Active Radar with Integrated Communication, ($76,000 by NSW Defence Innovation Network, 2019-2020)
Cyber-Attack Detection and Information Security for Industry 4.0", ASEAN IVO 2018 Projects ($147,000 by NICT Japan, 2018-2021)
User-based Radio Spectrum Harvesting System: Enabling a Real-time Map of Spectrum Opportunities", Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), ($421,000, by Australian Research Council (ARC), Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2018)
High Reliability Communication over 5G Unlicensed ($95,000 by Huawei, 2017-2018)
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in B4G Networks ($203,500 by Intel, 2016-2017)
Research Impacts and Systems
User-based Radio Spectrum Harvesting System
sponsored by Australian Research Council (ARC)
Real-time Seawater Monitoring System and Tech Transfer,
sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Remote Sensing and Drone Technologies for Search and Rescue (SAR)
sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Research Sponsors
Special thanks to sponsors for their generous support
ARC
DFAT
DST
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
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 Award by Australian IoT Alliance, 2024
HDR Supervisor of the Year, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, 2024
Nominated by UTS Vice Chancellor for the Social Justice and Inclusion (Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Australia), 2023
UTS Distilling Research Impact, 2023
Finalist for Supervisor of the Year Award (UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence), 2022
Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2021
Supervisor, Google PhD Fellowship, PhD student (Nguyen Van Huynh) received Google PhD Fellowship (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
Best Paper Runner-up Award at International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, (WiOpt), 4 finalists selected from 167 submissions, 2014
"Outstanding Graduate Student" award, College of Engineering, The University of Arizona, 2012
Nominated for "Outstanding RA of the Year" award, The University of Arizona, 2011
Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant (2011, 2012), The University of Arizona
US NSF Travel Grant, 2011
Vietnam Education Foundation Fellow, US Congress, 2006
University of Arizona Graduate Fellowship, 2009
Endeavour Postgraduate Award, Australian Government, 2009
University of California, San Diego Graduate Fellowship, 2006
Research Fellowship from LG Electronics, 2005
First Laureate Award by Hanoi People’s Committee, 2004
Awards and Recognition of my Students (PhD and undergraduate)
Md Arif Hassan, Student Travel Grant, IEEE GLOBECOM 2024.
Bui Duc Manh, UTS Tech Festival 2024 - Cybersecurity Showcase: Macquarie Cloud Service's Best Choice Award, June 2024
Nguyen Quang Hieu, SEDE Outstanding HDR Student, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Nov 2023.
Chu Hoai Nam, SEDE Outstanding HDR Student, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Nov 2023.
Hieu Q. Nguyen, Honorary Mention Award, IEEE ComSoc Student Competition "Communications Technology Changing the World", 2023
Cong Nguyen, Outstanding HDR Student Award, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Dec 2022
Best Student Paper Award (Do Hai Son and Tran Viet Khoa), 2021 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC)
Nguyen Van Huynh, UTS FEIT Post-Thesis Award, 2021
Yuris Saputra, UTS FEIT Post-Thesis Award, 2021
Nguyen Van Huynh, Student Travel Grant, IEEE GLOBECOM 2021
Yuris Mulya Saputra, Student Travel Grant, IEEE GLOBECOM 2021
Yuris Mulya Saputra, PhD Post-Thesis Scholarship, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, UTS, 2021
Nguyen Van Huynh, Student Travel Grant, IEEE ICC 2021
Nguyen Thanh Cong, VinIF Scholarship Award 2020, 2021
Vu Dinh Phai, VinIF Scholarship Award 2021
Nguyen Van Huynh, Google PhD Fellowship in Systems and Networking 2020
Yuris Mulya Saputra, Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2020
Nguyen Van Huynh, Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2019 and 2020
Nguyen Van Huynh, Higher Degree Research Director's Commendation for outstanding potential and an excellent individual project, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Dec 2019
Qingqing Cheng, UTS FEIT Post-Thesis Award, 2019
Nguyen Van Huynh, SEDE Outstanding HDR Student, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Nov 2019
Jordan Henry, Nominated Alan Chappel Award 2020
Kha Vo, Second Place Winner in HDR Competition, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, 2017
Anthony Quan, Jackie Cheung, Finalists for FEIT Dean's Capstone Awards for "BEATING GOOGLE SPECTRUM DATABASE: REAL-TIME RADIO SPECTRUM MAP", 2017
Keynotes, Tutorials, and Invited Talks
“Unleashing Generative AI: Addressing Scalability, Security, and Cyberinfrastructure Challenges”, Tutorial at IEEE Globecom Conference, Taiwan, December 2025
“Unleashing Generative AI Potential: Tackling Scalability, Security, and Communications/Networking Challenges”, Tutorial at IEEE PIMRC Conference, Istanbul, September 2025
“Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure”, Tutorial at IEEE Globecom Conference, Cape Town, Dec 2024
“Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure”, Keynote, IEEE ISCIT Conference, Thailand, Sept 2024
“Advanced Generative AI for Sustainable Cities and Communities”, Keynote at AI Summer School, Binus University, Indonesia, 2024
"Communications and Networking in Generative AI Era", Hon Hai Research Institute (HHRI), Foxconn, 2024
"Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure", National Taiwan University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2024
"Generative AI Models for Wireless, IoT, and Cloud Security", National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2024
"Security Threats in 5G and Beyond: Challenges and Countermeasures Towards Agile and Resilient Cyber Physical Systems", New South Wales Investment in Indonesia, Jakarta, 2023
AI-empowered Communications: Evolution from Optimization Tools to "AI as a Service" and "Native AI", 2023, Intel Munich, Germany
Enabling Metaverse with Secure and Smart Network Resource Slicing, 2022 NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), Ho Chi Minh city
“Secure and Efficient Distributed Learning for Wireless Edge Networks”, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (IEEE LANMAN)
"AI-empowered Edge Computing with Efficient and Secure Distributed Learning", SCSE Symposium on Computer Science & Engineering, 2021
“Coping with Cyber Security Threats using Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Challenges” 2018 International Winter Symposium on Big-Data, Cybersecurity and IoT (Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University)
"In-band Full-duplex Radios: Networking and Security Issues", International Conference on Recent Advances on Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom), Danang, Jan 2017
“In-band Full-duplex Radios: Networking and Security Issues”, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2017
Invited speaker at 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Melbourne, 2016
“Network Economics in Resource Allocation Strategies for Cognitive MIMO Networks”, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Oct, 2013
“Prolonging Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks with Cooperative Communications”, (with Marwan Krunz) Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, 2011
“System Level Verification of ASICs for 3G Devices”, Broadcom Corporations, California, 2008
“Threshold Behavior of MIMO Broadcast Channel’s Capacity”, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD, San Diego, California, 2007
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