Nguyen

Professor Nguyen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), leading the Wireless and Sensor Systems Laboratory (WSSL). His research focuses on Sustainable Autonomous Things (SATs), including medical devices, living sensors, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), emphasizing energy efficiency and unobtrusive data collection. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder (2018), an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (2014), and a BS in Electronics and Telecommunications from Vietnam National University (2010).

• Education:
• PhD, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)
• MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (2014)
• BS, Electronics and Telecommunications, Vietnam National University (2010)

Research interests span mobile computing, wireless communication, embedded systems, and IoT applications. His team develops innovative hardware-software systems for healthcare monitoring (e.g., ear-worn seizure detectors), environmental sensing (battery-free tree health systems), and drone technology (solar-powered UAVs). Key contributions include privacy-preserving wearable devices and quantum state discrimination frameworks.

Awards include the SONY Faculty Innovation Award, multiple ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights, and NSF funding. He actively reviews for flagship conferences like ACM MobiCom and serves on NSF panels.

Grants and collaborations involve National Science Foundation projects on sustainable wearable sensing systems and medical IoT. His lab emphasizes interdisciplinary work, combining signal processing, machine learning, and hardware design.

Labs/Teams: Wireless and Sensor Systems Laboratory (WSSL), collaborating on cross-scale human sensing systems and autonomous device innovation.