Welcome to my university page !

• I hold a Ph.D, an M.Phil (Cantab), and a B.Sc (Hons) at Royal Holloway University and University of Cambridge.

• I am a Fellow of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway University, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation.

• I was awarded "The Most Outstanding Vietnamese Student in the UK" title by Vietnam Embassy in 2014, "The Golden Globe Computer Science Award" (at the age of 15) by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, and was among 100 scientific advisers for Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. I have acquired over £210,000 scholarship and research grants as Principal Investigator.

Visit my personal page for the latest projects.

Recent news:

• September (2020): Joined Brighton as a Lecturer in Computer Science.

• December (2020): Awarded Brighton's Radical Futures grant.
• January (2021): Julia & Xu joined me as PhD students.
• February (2021): Awarded Brighton's Connected Futures grant.
• March (2021): Journal article "A review of smartphones based indoor positioning: challenges and applications", published by Wiley.
• April (2021): Khuong & Julia were one of the 7 winners of the Global Challenges Research Initiative, funded by Santander.
• May (2021): Winner of the "Inspirational and Motivational Teaching Award", from the Brighton Students' Union.

• July (2021): Book chapter "Coreset-based data compression for Logistic Regression", published by Springer.
• September (2021): Chairing the COPA 2021 conference.
• October (2021):
  
  • Awarded (£4,000) QR start-up investment fund from School of Architecture, Technology, and Engineering.
  • Awarded (£24,000) QR REF capacity building fund from School of Architecture, Technology, and Engineering (joint work with Dr. Yan Wang, Dr. Konstantina Vogiatzaki, and Prof. Mohammed Arif).
• January: 3 Research Officers to be recruited.
  • One on "Transfer Learning for cough-based COVID-19 detection": https://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=8344&forced=2
  • Two on "Machine Learning for Remanufacturing": https://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=8378&forced=2

• March: Guest Editor of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Springer).
• April: Winner of the "Rising Stars" Research Initiative (£10,000).
• May:
  • Nominated for the "Most inspirational lecturer of the year 2022" award (two years in a row).
  • Winner of the One Brighton "Outstanding Research Supervisor" award.
• June: Julia won the "3 Minute Thesis" competition, and will progress to the UK national competition.
• July: Completed a 6-month joint-project with the NHS (England), AMDR (America), and Innovative Health (America), to build green carbon footprint models of hospital equipment.
• August: Chairing and hosting the COPA 2022 conference.
• September: Deadline for a 3-year fully funded PhD studentship (~£50,000) in Artificial Intelligence for SME.

"If you must choose one single idea to work on for the rest of your life, what will that be ?"

In 2003, my grandma passed away with severe dementia. At the time, there was no existing technology to help communicating her daily needs, or her whereabouts for the carer to attend to swiftly. It was a struggle for my family to provide her the end-of-life care that she deserved.

For the past decade, my research has been around navigation and tracking, with an emphasis on contact tracing and healthcare monitoring. I have developed novel, practical systems combining the ubiquitous mobile sensors with machine learning.

Since 2017, I have published on average 3 papers, journals a year, most of them as the lead author. See here for a full list of my publications.

The nature of my high impact, practical research, and being a young lecturer (am still coding, and collecting data myself) will benefit enthusiastic students who would like to apply their ideologies in the real world.

I have had the pleasure to supervise the following Ph.D students.