Awards

• [Jan 2026]: Commendation from the Minister of Education of South Korea  [2025 Phase 4 BK21 Project Outstanding Participants].

• [Oct 2025]: 최우수상 (Top Prize): “Multimodal Driver Drowsiness Detection Using Facial Expressions and Ear-EEGs With a Lightweight Auto-Denoising Network.”, {Ngoc-Dau Mai, HT Nguyen, and WY Chung} - [국립부경대학교 대학원] 2025 대학원생 우수논문상 ([Pukyong National University Graduate School] 2025 Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award.)

• [Oct 2025]: 최우수상 (Top Prize): “On-chip mental stress detection: Integrating a wearable behind-the-ear eeg device with embedded tiny neural network.” {Ngoc-Dau Mai and WY Chung} - [국립부경대학교 대학원] 2025 대학원생 우수논문상. ([Pukyong National University Graduate School] 2025 Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award.)

• [March 2025]: Selected as a featured article (Sensor Informatics) in the IEEE J-BHI (Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2025): "On-Chip Mental Stress Detection: Integrating a Wearable Behind-the-Ear EEG Device with Embedded Tiny Neural Network." {Ngoc-Dau Mai and Wan-Young Chung}. 

• [July 2024]: Best Paper Award: "A Wearable BTE-EEG Embedded Device for Emotion Monitoring with Quantum Machine Learning" {Ngoc-Dau Mai, Hika Barki, and Wan-Young Chung} - 2024 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Communications and Electronics (IEEE ICCE 2024). 

• [Dec 2023]: Best Paper Award: "BTE EEG-Based BCI System with Attention-Enabled CNN for Early Detection of Harmful Content on Social Media Platforms" {Ngoc-Dau Mai, HT Nguyen, and WY Chung} - The Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing Conference - KICSP 2023 Fall. 

• [Nov 2023]: Second Runner-up Award: "Ear-EEG based-Driver Fatigue Detection System Augmented by Computer Vision"  {Ngoc-Dau Mai, HT Nguyen, and WY Chung} - 15th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction - IHCI 2023. 

• [Dec 2020]: Best Paper Award: "Identification of Harmful News on Social Media Sites Utilizing a Custom-designed EEG System and a Multi-channel CNN"  {Ngoc-Dau Mai, TH Nguyen, and WY Chung} - The Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing Conference - KICSP 2020 Fall. 

• [Aug 2020]: Best Paper Award: "A Hybrid CNN-LSTM for Emotion Recognition using Topographic Mapping of EEG Spectral Power" {Ngoc-Dau Mai, TH Nguyen, and WY Chung} - The Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing Conference - KICSP 2020 Summer. 

Invited Referee for Journals

• npj Flexible Electronics

• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

• IEEE Sensors  Journal

• IEEE Access

• Measurement

• Biomedical Materials & Devices

• Signal, Image and Video Processing

• Expert Systems With Applications

• Scientific Reports

• Discover Psychology

• Cognitive Neurodynamics