I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer  Science (EECS) and the Institute for Information Sciences (I2S) at the University of Kansas (KU). Before joining KU, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University and University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Contact: vanly.nguyen@ku.edu

Research Interests:

I am particularly interested in

• Future Wireless Communication Systems and Networks (5G, 6G-and-Beyond), IoT Networks and Applications;

• Machine Learning and Signal Processing for Wireless Communications and Networking;

• Machine Learning Theory and Applications, Signal Processing, Data Processing;

• Information Theory and Coding Theory.

Biography:

I received the Ph.D. degree in Computational Science from University of California, Irvine (UCI) and San Diego State  University (SDSU), CA, USA, in 2022; the M.Sc. degree degree in wireless communications from CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, France in 2016; and the B.Eng. degree in electronics and telecommunications from VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam, in 2014.

I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI) from 8/2022 to 1/2025 and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University from 2/2025 to 8/2025. My research interests lie in the areas of wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. I received a Best Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).