Office: Room D4.12, Horton Building, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
Email: v.mai@bradford.ac.uk or m.v.vuong@ieee.org
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 Centre for Space AI at the University of Bradford, UK. He was formerly a Research Assistant Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. His research interests include optical wireless communications and space technologies.
UK Co-Lead, Grant from UK–Vietnam iTechPath Programme funded by British Council, 2025
Co-I, Grant from International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) funded by British Council, 2025
Best Paper Award, IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks, and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2024
PI, Grant from GÉANT (Gigabit European Academic Network) Innovation Programme, 2024
PI, Grant from Space Placements in Industry (SPIN) Programme funded by UK Space Agency, 2024
PI, Grant from National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2022
First Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication (ICT), 2019
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), 2018
GCORE Postdoctoral Fellowship, KAIST Global Center for Open Research with Enterprise, Korea, 2018 ~ 2019
BK21+ Postdoctoral Fellowship, KAIST BK21 Plus Foundation, Korea, 2017 ~ 2018
Young Researcher Encouragement Award, IEEE VTS Tokyo Chapter, Japan, 2016
Student Excellent Research Award, IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter, Japan, 2015
IEEE GLOBECOM Travel Grant Award, National Science Foundation, USA, 2015
IEEE/IET CSNDSP Travel Grant Award, IEEE UK Communications Chapter, UK, 2014
President's Award of Excellence for Masters Study, UoA, Japan, 2014
IEEE Sendai Section Student Award, IEEE Sendai Section, Japan, 2013
Japanese Government Scholarships for Graduate Study, UoA, Japan, 2012 ~ 2017
Distinguished Student Award for Undergraduate Study, PTIT, Vietnam, 2012
Vietnamese Government Scholarships for Undergraduate Study, PTIT, Vietnam, 2007 ~ 2012
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 International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2026
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
Membership
Member of International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) Peer Review College, 2025 – now
Fellow of Advance HE, 2025 – now
STEM Ambassador, 2023 – now
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2012 – now
Member of Optica (formerly known as Optical Society of America), 2017 – now
Teaching
Module Leader, Earth Observation Satellite Systems (SEM2, 2023-4, 2024-5, 2025-6)
Module Leader, Telemedicine & E-Health (SEM1, 2024-5, 2025-6)