Office: Room D4.12, Horton Building, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
Email: v.mai@bradford.ac.uk
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 Space AI Centre at the University of Bradford, UK. Previously, he held the position of Research Assistant Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, after completing his PhD in Japan under a Japanese Government scholarship. His research focuses on optical wireless communications and space technologies.
Invited Online Lecture: Free-Space Optical Communications: Advanced Channel Modelling, Simulation, and Mitigation Techniques, IET, 2027
TPC Member, Optical Networks & Systems Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2027
TPC Member, SAC: Satellite and Space Communications, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2027
TPC Member, Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2027
TPC Member, Track: Space, Airborne, and Maritime Mobile Systems and Services, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2027
Academic Adviser of Bradford Student Team, Winner of Best Satellite and Best Outreach Awards at UKSEDS Satellite Design Competition, 2026
Academic Adviser of Bradford Student Team, One of Five Global Winners of IEEE GRSS Student Grand Challenge, 2026
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue: Advances in Free-Space Optical Communications and Emerging Applications for Non-Terrestrial Networks, IET Communications, 2026
TPC Member, Optical Networks & Systems Symposium, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2026
Member of International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) Peer Review College, 2025
Fellow of Advance HE, 2025
TPC Member, Selected Areas in Communications: Satellite and Space Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023, 2024, 2025
TPC Member, International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 2024, 2025
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future (RIVF), 2023, 2024, 2025
Programme Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Aerial Access and Applications (IAAA), 2025
TPC Member, Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications: Energy Efficiency, Resilience, and Pervasive Coverage, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2024
Session Chair, Special Session on Revolutionizing Connectivity of 6G Wireless Communications from Connected Things to Connected Intelligent, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2024
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE), 2018, 2020, 2024, 2026
Local Chair, SatNEx (European Space Agency’s Satellite Network of Experts) School, 2023
Session Chair and TPC Member, International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), 2023
TPC Co-Chair, Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2023
TPC Member, Workshop on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023
TPC Member, Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2023
TPC Member, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
TPC Member, International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023
TPC Member, International Conference on Optical Communication and Optical Information Processing (OCOIP), 2023
TPC Member, International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEE), 2021, 2023
TPC Member, Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT), 2022, 2023
TPC Member, International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems and Aerospace (ICUASA), 2018, 2019, 2023
TPC Member, Biennial Colloquium on Optical Wireless Communications, IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2018, 2020, 2022
Session Chair, NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), 2019
TPC Member, NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), 2016, 2021
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2018, 2019, 2020
TPC Member, International Conference on Systems (ICONS), 2020
TPC Member, International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEE), 2019
TPC Member, International Conference on Recent Advances on Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom), 2017, 2018
Session Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2016
TPC Member, International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (CommanTel), 2015
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2014
Teaching
Internet Technologies (May, 2026)
Earth Observation Satellite Systems (SEM2, 2023-4, 2024-5, 2025-6)
Telemedicine & E-Health (SEM1, 2024-5, 2025-6, 2026-7)