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Tri Hong Nguyen

  • Nguyen [wɪn] (English), or [ŋwiə̯n˧ˀ˥] (Northern Vietnamese) or [ŋwiə̯ŋ˧˩˧] (Southern Vietnamese).
  • Hong /ˌhɒŋ/ or [hœ́ːŋ] (pronounce as Hong in Hong Kong)
  • Tri /tríː/ (pronounce as tree or three in English)

When studying at the University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (UIT, VNU-HCMC), I found my interest topics which related to information security with my friends. At that time, we formed a CTF team and played together. Then, I stepped forward to an advanced class to change my idea follow the academic path until now.

Fun fact:

  • Tri (Abbreviation of tohtori) in Finnish means doctor degree/physician
  • Tri means wisdom (智-wisdom in Chinese) in a set of 仁禮礼義义智信
  • Tri is similar to tre (number 3) in Italian
  • Trí (my original Vietnamese first name) means the number three in Irish language

Nickname: 132, Hong3Nguyen, Tri Nguyen, Tri H. Nguyen, bialan etc.

Education

  • 2011-2015 BSc. Computer Science at the University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University (VNU-UIT)
  • 2016-2018 MSc. Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy (Unipi)
  • 2018-present Doctoral student at the University of Oulu, Finland (Center for Ubiquitous Computing - Ubicomp)

Work Experience

  • 2019 TA's Distributed Systems
  • 2020 TA's Distributed Systems

Interested Topic

  • Information security, blockchain technology, distributed ledger technology, distributed system and consensus mechanism.
    • Watermarking - BSc thesis
    • Blockchain technology - MSc thesis