Professional experience

Doctor of Philosophy – Chung–Ang University (CAU)                                                                        Sep 2020 – Sep 2024

• CGPA: 4.50/4.50 (100/100)

• Major: Microwave and Optics

• Dissertation: Millimeter-wave Aerodynamic Antennas with High-Performance Specialized
    Conical-Coverage for Hierarchical Non-Terrestrial Networks

Master of Engineering – Chung–Ang University (CAU)           Sep 2018 – June 2020

• CGPA: 4.38/4.50 (98.63/100)

• Major: Microwave and Optics

• Thesis: High-gain and Wideband Metasurfaced Magnetoelectric Antenna
        for 60 GHz WiGig Applications

Degree of Engineer – Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)                               Sep 2012 – June 2017

• CGPA: 3.31/4.00 (8.275/10) - Top 5%

• Major: Instrumentation and Industrial Informatics (3I)

• Thesis: Dual-band Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting at WiFi 802.11ac band

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Sep 2024 - Present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  - University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

Research on Microwave, Millimeter-wave antenna, Reconfigurable-Intelligent-Surface (RIS),
and RF sensors.

Research Associate       Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Micro-Millimeter-Wave Laboratory – CAU

Research on Millimeter-wave, Sub-terahertz antenna and Reconfigurable-Intelligent-Surface
(RIS) technologies for 5G, 6G wireless communications.

Projects:

1.  Millimeter-wave antenna/metasurfaced antenna for 5G/6G and vehicle communications.

2.  High gain and wideband antenna for sub-terahertz and millimeter-wave applications.

3.  Reconfigurable-intelligent-surface for 5G, 6G communications.

4.  Purely self-reconfigurable RF components and devices.

Collaboration with Smart Sensor Laboratory       Feb 2022 - Present
School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering – HUST

Collaboration on EM-based smart sensors for industrial and smart house applications.

Research Assistant     Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
Micro-Millimeter-Wave Laboratory – CAU

Research on mm-wave beam-forming technology, RIS, and battery-free wireless biosensor.

Projects:

1.  High gain and wideband antenna for millimeter-wave applications.

2.  Battery-free wireless biosensor for wearable health tracking devices.

3.  Self-reconfigurable RF components and devices.

Research Associate         Jul 2017 - Jul 2018  
RF3I Laboratory – School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering – HUST

Collaboration on millimeter-wave, sub-terahertz antenna, metasurface for industrial applications.

Teaching Assistant       Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
Instrumental & Industrial Informatics Department – HUST

Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Courses:

1.  Digital Fundamentals.

2.  Electronic Instrumentation And Measurement.

Student Researcher     Feb 2015 - Jun 2017  
RF3I Laboratory – HUST

1.  High frequency circuits (Antenna, Rectifier, DC Filter, Matching Network) in project:
   “Rectenna for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting at 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz band”.

2.  High frequency circuits (Oscillator, Mixer, Matching Network) in project: “Radar Motion Detector”.

3.  RF circuits (Transmitter, Receiver, Detector) in project: “Motion Detector using Ultrasonic Wave".