Biography
Dr. Dinh Nguyen is currently an Assistant Professor (tenure-track, above the bar) in Networks and Distributed Systems with the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to this position, he was an Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity (2022-2025), a Research Associate with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg (2019-2022), a Postdoc Researcher and a Lecturer with Soongsil University (2018-2019), a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar with the University of Technology Sydney, AUS (July-August 2018) and a Ph.D. Visiting Scholar with Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. (June-July 2015 and August 2016).
Dr. Nguyen received the four best conference paper awards, IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Awards 2019 and 2021, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Exemplary Editor Award 2021 and 2023, IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer Award 2018 and IEEE GLOBECOM Student Travel Grant Award 2017. He has authored or co-authored some 90 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a reviewer for many top-tier international journals on wireless communications, and has also been a Technical Programme Committee Member for several flagship international conferences in the related fields. He is currently a Senior Editor of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY and IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL.
Experience
Trinity College Dublin | College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track, above the bar), Computer Science | 2025–CurrentVinUniversity | Hanoi, Vietnam
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | 2022–2025SnT - University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg
Research Associate, SIGCOM - SnT | 2019–2022Soongsil University | Seoul, South Korea
Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering | 2018–2019
Professional Activities
IEEE Communications Letters (COMML)
Senior Editor | 2024–Current
Associate Editor | 2019–2023IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS)
Associate Editor | 2020–2025Mobile Networks and Applications - Springer
Guest Editor | 2020Technical Program Committee (TPC)
TPC Chair/Member, Session Chair, and Reviewer for 20+ Conferences (e.g. IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, INFOCOM, VTC, WCNC, PIMRC, etc.)
Awards
Faculty of the Year Award, VinUniversity for Academic Year | 2023-2024
Researcher of the Year Award, VinUniversity for Academic Year | 2023-2024
Outstanding Contribution Award, VinUniversity for Academic Year | 2022-2023
Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE ATC | 2024
Exemplary Editor Award, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society | 2023
Outstanding Contribution Award, VinUniversity for Academic Year 2022-2023 | 2023
Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop | 2023
Exemplary Editor Award, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society | 2021
Exemplary Editor Award, IEEE Communications Letters | 2021
Exemplary Editor Award, IEEE Communications Letters | 2019
Exemplary Reviewer Award, IEEE Transactions on Communications | 2018
Best Conference Paper Award, SigTelCom | 2018
Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) $500 | 2017
Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest $1,000.00 | 2015
Best Conference Paper Award, International Conference on Computing, Management & Telecommunications (ComManTel) | 2015
Education
Soongsil University | Seoul, South Korea
Ph.D. in ICT Convergence - Electronic Engineering | 2015–2018Soongsil University | Seoul, South Korea
M.E. in Electronic Engineering | 2013–2015Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (BKU) - Vietnam National University | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
B.E. in Electrical Engineering | 2007–2012