PhD in Telecommunications Systems (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden), FIEEE, FAAIA

• Canada Excellence Research Chair in Next Generation Communications Technologies and Full Professor

Contact Information

Ph: 709-864-2391
Em: tduong[at]mun.ca
Office: CSF4121

Areas of Expertise

Wireless communications, Quantum communications, Quantum machine learning, Quantum optimization. 

Personal Profile

He is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and a Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. His current research focuses on quantum machine learning, signal processing, real-time optimization, quantum optimization, 5G/6G wireless communications, Internet-of-Things (applied to healthcare, disaster management, energy, agriculture, environment, and smart cities). Currently, his main research interests in 5G/6G include:

• Joint optimal design for communications and computing
• Digital twin networks
• Integrated satellite and terrestrial networks
• Quantum machine learning for dynamic radio resource allocation in wireless networks
• Real-time optimisation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
• Semantic communications
• Integrated sensing and communications
• Physical layer security

He has established a strong record in these areas with 500+ publications (Google Scholar: 20,000+ citations, h-index of 76). He was the only UK-based researcher to have received both prestigious awards from the Royal Academy of Engineering: i) the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (2015–2020) and ii) Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020-2025). He has received $54+ million in research grants from Canada NSERC, EU Horizon, UK funding bodies (EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, DfE, British Council), international funding bodies, and industry. He has served as an Editor for major technical journals including IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and a recipient of the prestigious Newton Prize awarded in 2017 by the UK Government.

 Honours / Awards

2024       Best Paper Awar, 20^th International Conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC)

2024       Best Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters  

2023       Best Paper Award, the IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks

2023       Canada Excellence Research Chair, supported by the Government of Canada

2023       Best Paper Award, the 19^th International Conf. on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC)

2023       Visiting Professor at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, appointed by Taiwan National Science and Technology Council

2023       Distinguished Visiting Professor (through the Eminent Scholar program), Kyung Hee University, South Korea

2023       Distinguished Professor, Thuyloi University, Vietnam

2022       Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) – 2 awards

2022       Fellow of IEEE (class of 2022) – top 0.1% voting members of the world's largest technical professional organization with 423,000 members

2022       Fellow of AAIA – Fellows of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) include academicians from US National Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, etc., to bring together scientists and entrepreneurs related to AI applications to develop AI industries.

2020       Royal Academy of Engineering - Research Chair (only 4 awardees in all Engineering disciplines), UK

2019       Best Paper Award, the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

2019       Best Paper Award International Conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (IWCMC)

2018       Queen’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Prize for Innovation

2017       Distinguished Advisory Professor, Inje University, South Korea

2017       Newton Prize (prestigious research award from the UK government for the research that supports the economic development and social welfare, and to develop their research and innovation capacity for long-term sustainable growth)

2017       Best Paper Award, the 20^th Digital Signal Processing Conference (DSP)

2016       Queen’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Prize for Early Career Researcher

2015       Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (only 8 awardees in all Engineering disciplines), UK

2014       Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

2014       Best Paper Award, the 9^th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM)

2013       Best Paper Award, the IEEE 77^th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring)

2012       IEEE Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, 2012

Grant Reviewer and Funding Evaluation Panel Member

• Panel Member, Poland National Science Foundation, 2024
• Grant Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation, 2024
• Grant Reviewer for Canada MITACS, 2024
• Grant Reviewer for Research Office of United Arab Emirates University, 2024
• Grant Reviewer for Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, 202
• Grant Reviewer for Canada NSERC, 2018, 2019, 2024
• Panel Member for Irish Research Council, STEM Outer Board for the Government of Ireland Schemes, 2024
• Grant Reviewer for Kazakhstan National Research Funding, 2023
• Grant Reviewer for Dutch Research Council, 2022
• Grant Reviewer for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, 2022
• Grant Reviewer for European Research Council (ERC), 2022
• Grant Reviewer for UK EPSRC (2015 – present)
• Grant Reviewer for the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (other funding schemes) 2020 – present
• Panel Member, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering, Multidisciplinary Research Panel, 2022
• Panel Member, Academy of Finland, Natural Sciences and Engineering, ICT Panel, 2022
• Panel Member, Poland National Science Foundation, 2022
• Panel Member, Poland National Science Foundation, 2021
• Panel Member, Joint FWO-NAFOSTED Evaluation Panel Bilateral Research Projects FWO (Flanders) - NAFOSTED (Vietnam), 2020
• Grant Reviewer for Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, 2020
• Panel Member, EPSRC Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Prioritisation, UK, 2020
• Full college member, EPSRC Peer Review College, UK, (2017 – present)
• Grant Reviewer for UK Newton Prize, 2020 (6 proposals)
• Grant Reviewer for UK Newton Prize, 2019
• Grant Reviewer for Dutch Research Council, 2020
• Grant Reviewer for Swedish Research Council, 2016 and 2018
• Grant Reviewer for Kazakhstan National Research Funding, 2017, 2018
• Grant Reviewer for Poland National Science Foundation, 2019
• Grant Reviewer for Australian Research Council, 2017
• Grant Reviewer for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) Competitive Research Funding program, 2021
• Independent Reviewer for Macquarie University Research Fellowship, 2017