Dr. Anh Nguyen is the visionary founder and director of the Mobile Cyber-Physical Intelligence (mCyPhI) Lab at the University of Montana. Her team is at the forefront of innovation, designing and developing cutting-edge sensing and intervention technologies for smart health, the Internet of Things, and human-computer interactions. Driven by a mission to expand the boundaries of cyber-physical systems, her research focuses on multimodal data fusion and interpretation across disciplines, including understanding human activities, augmenting human capabilities, predicting future health issues, and enabling operations in challenging environments.


Dr. Nguyen is committed to bringing her research to real-world application, with four patents filed and a strong emphasis on technology transfer. Her groundbreaking work has earned her numerous accolades, including CACM Research Highlights in 2018 and 2021, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights in 2016 and 2017, and multiple Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences like ACM SenSys and ACM MobiCom. Her research has garnered wide press coverage from outlets such as MIT TechReview and The Children's Hospital Colorado Center for Innovation. In addition to her research achievements, Dr. Nguyen received an Honorable Mention Grad Talk at the RMCWiC ACM Celebration Event in 2018. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, an M.S. in Computer Science from Chonnam National University in South Korea, and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science, VNU-HCMC in Vietnam.


Dr. Nguyen is seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students to join our cutting-edge research projects in Mobile Systems, Smart Healthcare, and Machine Learning. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and innovation, take a look at my “Notes to Prospective Students” to learn more about joining our dynamic team!

News

  • 04/2024: Awarded the Annual Faculty Merit Award for the 2022 - 2023 academic year
  • 09/2023: Our Earable paper is accepted by Nature Scientific Reports.
  • 04/2023: Our paper on an empirical study of 5G is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computings.
  • 10/2022: Serve as a member of the Technical Program Committee of MobiSys 2023
  • 10/2022: Serve as a member of the Technical Program Committee of HotMobile 2023
  • 09/2022: Serve as a member of the Technical Program Committee of CML-IOT 2022
  • 08/2022: Awarded the D. J. Kasik (1972) Scholarship Fund
  • 05/2022: Serve as a member of the Shadow Program Committee of the ACM SenSys 2022
  • 05/2022: Accept the job offer from the Department of Computer Science, University of Montana
  • 04/2022: Give an invited talk at the University of Montana
  • 04/2022: Give an invited talk in the Sleep Medicine Journal Club directed by Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)
  • 02/2022: Awarded NSF Student Travel Grant from ACM MobiCom 2021
  • 01/2022: Serve as a mentor in the N2 Women Mentorship Program in 2022
  • 11/2021: Give an invited Guest Lecture in a graduate NetSys class
  • 04/2021: Successfully propose my Ph.D. dissertation
  • 04/2021: Give an invited Guest Lecture in a graduate NetSys class
  • 04/2020: Awarded Departmental Summer Research Fellowship 2020
  • 03/2020: Our Painometry is accepted to ACM MobiSys 2020.
  • 10/2019: Our eBP is awarded Best Paper at ACM MobiCom 2019.
  • 08/2019: Our Smartphone-Based SpO2 Measurement paper is accepted to TOSN
  • 07/2019: Our eBP paper is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2019
  • 02/2019: Serve as a Committee Member in Grace Hopper Celebration 2019
  • 01/2019: Serve as a Social media Co-Chair in N2 Women Board 2019
  • 11/2018: My Grad Talk in RMCWiC'18 is awarded Honorable Mention
  • 11/2018: Give a Grad Talk on our in-ear sensing (iES) system in Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing (RMCWiC) 2018, ACM Celebration Event
  • 11/2018: Our LIBS paper is published in Communications of the ACM Vol. 61(11)
  • 11/2018: Our CapBand paper won Best Paper Runner-up Award at ACM SenSys 2018
  • 07/2018: Our CapBand paper is accepted to ACM SenSys'18
  • 02/2018: Our LIBS work is awarded in Google Faculty Research Award 2017
  • 02/2018: Our TYTH paper is accepted to ACM MobiSys'18
  • 01/2018: Serve as a Social media Co-Chair in N2 Women Board 2018
  • 10/2017: Our "Android User Privacy Preserving through Crowdsourcing" paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
  • 10/2017: Our PhO2 paper is awarded Best Presentation at ACM MobiCom-S3 workshop 2017
  • 10/2017: Our MobileOx App won the 2nd prize in the MobiCom 2017 App Contest
  • 09/2017: Our LIBS paper is awarded CACM Research Highlights
  • 08/2017: Organize a N2 Women meeting in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2017. Kindly find the flyer here.
  • 08/2017: Awarded N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship
  • 08/2017: Our PhO2 paper is accepted to ACM MobiCom-S3 workshop 2017
  • 07/2017: Our PhO2 paper is accepted to ACM SenSys'17
  • 07/2017: Serve as a Technical Program Committee Member in ACM MobiCom - S3 Workshop 2017
  • 05/2017: Awarded NSF Student Travel Grant from ACM MobiSys 2017
  • 04/2017: Our LIBS paper is awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
  • 04/2017: Our Capacitive Sensing Wirstband is accepted to ACM MobiSys-WearSys workshop 2017
  • 04/2017: Our PaperKey demo is accepted to ACM MobiSys 2017
  • 02/2017: Our Matthan is accepted to ACM MobiSys 2017
  • 11/2016: Awarded Best Paper at ACM SenSys 2016
  • 10/2016: Awarded NSF Student Travel Grant from ACM SenSys 2016
  • 08/2016: Our LIBS paper is accepted to ACM MobiCom-S3 workshop 2016
  • 07/2016: Our In-ear biological signal sensing paper is accepted to ACM SenSys 2016
  • 06/2016: Our "Android Permission Recommendation using Transitive Bayesian Inference Model" paper is accepted to ESORICS 2016
  • 05/2016: Our In-ear biosignal recording system paper is accepted to ACM MobiSys-WearSys workshop 2016
  • 04/2016: Our "Cost-effective RF-based Detection of Drones" paper is accepted to ACM MobiSys-DroNet workshop 2016
  • 04/2015: Awarded NSF Student Travel Grant from CRA-Women Grad Cohort Workshop 2015
  • 02/2015: Our mSleepWatcher paper is accepted to ISSAT MCSE 2015
  • 09/2014: Awarded Student Travel Grant Award from Broadening Participation Workshop hosted by ACM Ubicomp 2014
  • 05/2014: Accept into the Engineering and Applied Science Ph.D. Program in University of Colorado Denver

Publications

  • A Comprehensive Study on the Efficacy of a Wearable Sleep Aid Device Featuring Closed-loop Real-time Acoustic Stimulation [PDF] [Supplement]
    Nature Scientific Reports
    Anh Nguyen, Galen Pogoncheff, Ban Xuan Dong, Nam Bui, Hoang Truong, Nhat Pham, Linh Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen-Huu, Khue Bui-Diem, Quan Vu-Tran-Thien, Sy Duong-Quy, Sangtae Ha, and Tam Vu
  • An Empirical Study of 5G: Effect of Edge on Transport Protocol and Application Performance [PDF]
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    Hyoyoung Lim, Jinsung Lee , Jongyun Lee, Sandesh Dhawaskar Sathyanarayana, Junseon Kim, Anh Nguyen, Kwang Taik Kim, Youngbin Im, Mung Chiang, Dirk Grunwald, Kyunghan Lee, and Sangtae Ha
  • eBP: An Ear-Worn Device for Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring [PDF] [Link]
    Communications of the ACM 2021
    Nam Bui, Nhat Pham, Jessica Jacqueline Barnitz, Zhanan Zou, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Taeho Kim, Nicholas Farrow, Anh Nguyen, Jianliang Xiao, Robin Deterding, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  • Painometry: Wearable and Objective Quantification System for Acute Postoperative Pain [PDF]
    ACM MobiSys 2020 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 2020
    Hoang Truong, Nam Bui, Zohreh Raghebi, Marta Ceko, Nhat Pham, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Taeho Kim, Katrina Siegfried, Evan Stene, Taylor Tvrdy, Logan Weinman, Thomas Payne, Devin Burke, Thang Dinh, Sidney D’Mello, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Tor Wager, Pavel Goldstein, and Tam Vu
  • eBP: A Wearable System For Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring From User's Ear [PDF]
    Best Paper Award
    CACM Research Highlights
    ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
    ACM MobiCom 2019 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, October 2019
    Nam Bui, Nhat Pham, Jessica Jacqueline Barnitz, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Taeho Kim, Anh Nguyen, Zhanan Zou, Nicholas Farrow, Jianliang Xiao, Robin Deterding, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  • Smartphone-Based SpO2 Measurement by Exploiting Wavelengths Separation And Chromophore Compensation [PDF]
    ACM TOSN 2020 - The ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2020
    Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding, and Tam Vu
  • Demo: Earable - An Ear-Worn Biosignal Sensing Platform for Cognitive State Monitoring and Human-Computer Interaction [PDF] [DEMO]
    ACM MobiSys 2019 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2019
    Nhat Pham, Taeho Kim, Frederick M Thayer, Anh Nguyen, and Tam Vu
  • LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study [PDF] [Link]
    Communications of the ACM 2018
    Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  • CapBand: Battery-free Successive Capacitance Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition [PDF]
    Best Paper Award Nominee
    ACM SenSys 2018 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2018
    Hoang Truong, Shuo Zhang, Ufuk Muncuk, Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Qin Lv, Kaushik Chowdhury, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
    (23 out of 147 submissions, acceptance ratio: 15.6%)
  • TYTH-Typing On Your Teeth: Tongue-Teeth Localization for Human-Computer Interface [PDF]
    ACM MobiSys 2018 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 2018
    Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Abhijit Suresh, Matthew Whitlock, Duy Pham, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
    (37 out of 138 submissions, acceptance ratio: 26.8%)
  • Cost-Effective and Passive RF-Based Drone Presence Detection and Characterization [PDF]
    ACM GetMobile Highlights 2017
    Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, Tam Vu
  • LIBS: A Lightweight and Inexpensive In-Ear Sensing System for Automatic Whole-Night Sleep Stage Monitoring [PDF] [Link]
    ACM GetMobile Highlights 2017
    Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  • Android User Privacy Preserving through Crowdsourcing [PDF]
    IEEE TIFS 2017 - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2017
    Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Anh Nguyen, Tam Vu, and Elisa Bertino
  • Photometry based Blood Oxygen Estimation through Smartphone Cameras [PDF]
    Best Presentation Award
    ACM MobiCom-S3 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - The Ninth Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, October 2017
    Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding, and Tam Vu
  • PhO2: Optical 3D printed elements and NIR/R light extraction techniques for phone-base blood oxygen level measurement [PDF]
    Best Paper Award Nominee
    ACM SenSys 2017 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2017
    Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding, and Tam Vu
    (26 out of 151 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.2%)
    (The app won the 2nd prize ACM MobiCom App Contest in 2017.)
  • Demo: Fusing Mobile Sensors for Paper Keyboard On-the-Go [PDF] [DEMO] [Link]
    ACM MobiSys 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2017
    Anh Nguyen, Duy Nguyen, Nhan Nguyen, Ashwin Ashok, Binh Nguyen, Bao Pham, and Tam Vu
  • DEMO: Low-power Capacitive Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition [PDF]
    ACM MobiCom-S3 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - The Eighth Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, October 2017
    Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui and Tam Vu
  • Matthan: Drone Presence Detection by Identifying Physical Signatures in the Drone’s RF Communication [PDF] [DEMO]
    ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
    ACM MobiSys 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2017
    Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, and Tam Vu
    (34 out of 188 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18%)
  • Capacitive sensing 3D-printed Wristband for Enriched Hand Gesture Recognition [PDF] [DEMO]
    ACM MobiSys-WearSys 2017 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services - Workshop on Wearable Systems, June 2017
    Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui, and Tam Vu
    (The demo won College-wide Best Senior Design Project Competition Award at CU Denver in 2016)
  • Whole Night Sleep Monitoring with a Low-cost In-ear Wearable Device [Abstract] [POSTER] [Link]
    ATS International Conference 2017 - The American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2017
    Anh Nguyen, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Thang Dinh, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  • A Lightweight And Inexpensive In-ear Sensing System For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Stage Monitoring [PDF] [YouTube]
    Best Paper Award
    CACM Research Highlights
    ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
    ACM SenSys 2016 - The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2016
    Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
    (21 out of 119 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.6%)
  • LIBS: a low-cost in-ear bioelectrical sensing solution for healthcare applications [PDF]
    ACM MobiCom-S3 2016 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - The Eighth Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, October 2016
    Anh Nguyen, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  • Android Permission Recommendation using Transitive Bayesian Inference Model [PDF]
    ESORICS 2016 - The European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, September 2016
    Bahman Rashidi, Carol Fung, Anh Nguyen, and Tam Vu
  • In-ear Biosignal Recording System: A Wearable For Automatic Whole-night Sleep Staging [PDF]
    ACM MobiSys-WearSys 2016 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services - Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications, June 2016
    Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Zohreh Raghebi, Farnoush Banaei-kashani, Ann C. Halbower, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  • Investigating Cost-effective RF-based Detection of Drones [PDF]
    ACM MobiSys-DroNet 2016 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, June 2016
    Phuc Nguyen, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, and Tam Vu
  • Sensing Occupant Comfort using Wearable Technologies: A Pilot Study [PDF]
    ASCE CRC 2015 - Construction Research Congress - American Society of Civil Engineers
    Moatassem Abdallah, Caroline Clevenger, Tam Vu, and Anh Nguyen
  • mSleepWatcher: Why didn’t I sleep well? [PDF]
    ISSAT MCSE 2015 - ISSAT International Conference on Modeling of Complex Systems and Environments, June 2015
    Anh Nguyen, Raghda Alqurashi, Ann C. Halbower, and Tam Vu
  • 3D Human Face Recognition Using Sift Descriptors of Face’s Feature Regions [PDF]
    New Trends in Computational Collective Intelligence 2014
    Nguyen Hong Quy, Nguyen Hoang Quoc, Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Hyung-Jeong Yang, and Pham The Bao
  • Color Image Segmentation using a Morphological Gradient-based Active Contour Model [PDF]
    IJICIC 2013 - International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Proximity based Object Segmentation in Natural Color Images Using Level Set Method [PDF]
    IEICE 2013 - Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications, and Computer Sciences
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Object Segmentation based on Location Information for Level Set Method [PDF]
    ACM ICUIMC 2013 - The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, January 2013
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Vo Quang Nhat, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Color Image Segmentation using Distance Regularized Level Set [PDF]
    KSII 2012 - Journal of Korea Society for Internet Information
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Fast Automatic Saliency Map driven Geometric Active Contour Model for Color Object Segmentation [PDF]
    ICPR 2012 - The 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, November 2012
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Vo Quang Nhat, Elyor Kodirov, Soo-Hyung Kim, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Morphological Gradient Applied to New Active Contour Model for Color Image Segmentation [PDF]
    ACM ICUIMC 2012 - The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, February 2012
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Young-Chul Kim, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Object Segmentation in Color Images using Distance Regularized Level Set [PDF]
    ICONI 2011 - The 3rd International Conference on Internet, December 2011
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Nguyen Huy Hoang, Le Thi Khue Van, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Camera Based Motion Tracking by Camera Images [PDF]
    HCI 2011 - The Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Jeong-Hwan Kim, and Guee-Sang Lee
  • Fingerprint Authentification System in Banking Transaction [PDF]
    GESTS 2011 - GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering
    Nguyen Tran Lan Anh, Phan Thi My Dung, and Pham The Bao

Patents

  • In-Ear Sensing Systems and Methods for Biological Signal Monitoring [PDF]
    U.S. Patent No. 11,382,561, 07/2022
    Tam Vu, Ann Halbower, and Anh Nguyen
  • Systems And Methods For Determining Physiological Information With A Computing Device [PDF]
    U.S. Patent Application, No. 16/342,944, 09/2019
    Tam Vu, Robin Deterding, Anh Nguyen, and Phuc Nguyen
  • Thermal comfort building monitoring with wearables: method, apparatus, and system
    U.S. Provisional Patent Application, No. 62/288,924, 03/2016
    Caroline Clevenger, Moatassem Abdullah, Tam Vu, and Anh Nguyen
  • Resource Access Permission Recommendation Method for Mobile Applications
    U.S. Patent pending, 10/2016
    Carol Fung, Bahman Rashidi, Tam Vu, and Anh Nguyen

Teaching

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, USA.
    • Fall 2024: CSCI 232 - Intermediate Data Structures and Algorithms, CSCI 461/561 - Internet of Things
    • Spring 2024: CSCI 491/591 - Special Topics: Embedded Systems
    • Fall 2023: CSCI 460/591 - Operating Systems, CSCI 491/591 - Special Topics: Internet of Things
    • Spring 2023: CSCI 460/591 - Operating Systems, CSCI 491/591 - Special Topics: Embedded Systems
    • Fall 2022: CSCI 491/591 - Special Topics: Internet of Things
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
    • Fall 2018 - Fall 2021: CSCI 3753 - Design and Analysis of Operating Systems
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver, USA.
    • Spring 2017: CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing
    • Fall 2016: CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing, CSCI 4034 - Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science
    • Summer 2016: CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing
    • Spring 2016: CSCI 5446 - Theory of Automata, CSCI 5173/7173 - Computational Complexity and Algorithms
    • Fall 2015: CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing, CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Lab
    • Summer 2015: CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Lab
    • Spring 2015: CSCI 1410 - Fundamentals of Computing, CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Lab
    • Fall 2014: CSCI 1411 - Fundamentals of Computing Lab, CSCI 4800/5800 - Mobile Computing & Programming
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCMC, Vietnam.
    • Spring 2014: Advanced Machine Learning, Discrete Mathematics, Object Oriented Programming
    • Fall 2013: Pattern Recognition, Discrete Mathematics, Introduction of Machine Learning, Data Structure and Algorithms
    • Spring 2013: Object Oriented Programming, Algorithm Analysis
    • Fall 2012: Discrete Mathematics

Activities

  • Technical Program Committee:
    • 2024: IEEE MASS, ACM/IEEE IPSN, ACM MobiSys
    • 2023: HotMobile, IEEE IMWUT, ACM MobiSys, ACM MobiCom
    • 2022: CML-IOT
    • 2019: Grace Hopper Celebration
    • 2017: ACM S3
  • Chair and Co-Chair:
    • 2025: Registration Chair at ACM MobiSys
    • 2024: Workshop Co-Chair at N2 Women Workshop in ACM MobiSys
    • 2019: Social media Co-Chair in N2 Women Board
    • 2018: Social media Co-Chair in N2 Women Board
    • 2017: Event Organizer at N2 Women Meeting at ACM MobiCom
  • Panelist:
    • 2023: HotMobile
  • Journals Reviewer:
    • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
    • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM)
    • PLOS Digital Health
  • Student Mentor:
    • 2022: N2 Women Mentorship Program
    • 2020: YOU'RE@CU program at University of Colorado Boulder

Awards

  • Annual Faculty Merit Award from the University of Montana for AY 2022-2023
  • D. J. Kasik (1972) Scholarship Fund from the University of Colorado Boulder 2022-2023
  • NSF Student Travel Grant Award from ACM MobiCom 2021
  • Departmental Summer Research Fellowship 2020
  • Best Paper Award from ACM SenSys 2016 & ACM MobiCom 2019
  • Honorable Mention Grad Talk from RMCWiC ACM Celebration Event 2018
  • CACM Research Highlights 2017
  • N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship Award from Networking Networking Women 2017
  • NSF Student Travel Grant Award from ACM MobiSys 2017
  • SIGMOBILE Research Highlights from ACM SIGMOBILE 2016 & 2017
  • NSF Student Travel Grant Award from ACM SenSys 2016
  • NSF Student Travel Grant Award from CRA-Women Grad Cohort Workshop 2015
  • Student Travel Grant Award from Broadening Participation Workshop hosted by ACM Ubicomp 2014
  • Academic Achievement Award at Chonnam National University, Korea 2012
  • Annual Global Graduate Scholarship at Chonnam National University, Korea 2010 – 2012
  • Annual scholarships of Vietnamese Government for excellent students at VNU-HCMC, Vietnam 2006 - 2009

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science (2014 - 2022)

University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Thesis: Enabling Closed-loop Personalized Sleep Care Through High-fidelity Brain Tracking And Just-in-time Brain Stimulation Wearables
Advisor: Dr. Tam Vu
Lab: Mobile & Networked Systems (MNS) Lab

M.S. in Software Engineering (2010 - 2012)

Chonnam National University, Korea

Thesis: Location based Active Contour Model for Object Segmentation from Natural Color Images
Advisor: Dr. Guee-Sang Lee
Lab: Multimedia And Communication Lab

B.S. in Computer Science (2005 - 2009)

University of Science, VNU-HCMC, Vietnam

Thesis: Fingerprint identification system in banking transactions
Advisor: Dr. Pham The Bao

Miscellaneous

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