Dr Nick Pham

(he/him)

DPhil (Oxon)

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Overview:

My research team focus on interdisciplinary research of Intelligent and Efficient Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-based Sensing, Edge-AI and On-chip Computing, especially for healthcare applications such as epilepsy, narcolepsy, stress, sleep disorders, etc. We have strong collaborations with leading UK and international institutions including the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, University of Masshachusset Amherst, University of Colorado, and University of Wyoming. The work of my research group has been published in highly selective international conferences and journals such as MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, and IEEE Transactions.

Research Fundings:

1. "Enabling distributedly self-powered wearables for mobile healthcare applications", funded by EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). (PI, ~£93,401, 2024-2028)
2. "Utilization of Digital Twin for Cardiovascular Disease Care Management Through Multimodal Physiological Sensing Wearables", with Asan Medical Centre and KAIST (South Korea), funded by Academy of Medical Science, British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. (UK PI, £25,000, 2024-2025).
3. "Edge-AI in the Internet of Things", with Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, funded by Global Wales. (PI, 3-11/2024, £5000)
4. "AI in Smart Heathcare", with VinUniversity, Vin-Illinois Smart Health Centre, funded by Global Wales. (PI, 3-11/2024, £5000)
5. Taith Research Mobility funding. (PI, 6/2024, £2000)

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For more details on our research, please refer to our group's website

Teaching

I am teaching several modules at National Software Academy, Cardiff University and AIMS Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Oxford. 

• Cardiff NSA: Mobile Development (Spring 2024)
• Oxford AIMS CDT: Internet of Things (Hilary 2023, 2024)
• NSA Year 1 tutor.
• MSc tutor.

Biography

Education

• 2023: DPhil (PhD) in Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2018: M.Sc. in Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea.
• 2015: B.E. in Computer Engineering, Vietnam National University - University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

Honours and awards

• 2024: Nominated for ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award by Oxford University (Final result: 07/2024).
• 2024: GW4 future research leader of the South West and Wales.
• 2022: ACM MobiCom 2022 Travel Grant.
• 2020-2023: University of Oxford DPhil Scholarship.
• 2021: Communication of the ACM Research Highlight.
• 2020: ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight.
• 2019: ACM GetMobile Research Highlight.
• 2019: Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom 2019.
• 2016-2018: KAIST Graduate Scholarship, Daejeon, South Korea.
• 2015: Honda Young Engineers and Scientists - Top 30 applicants, Vietnam.
• 2015: Silver graduation medal, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. 
• 2009 - 2011: Odon Vallet's Fellowship, Vietnam.

Professional memberships

• Member of the ACM, SIGMOBILE.

Academic positions

• 2023 - now: Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, UK.
• 2022 - 2023: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cyber-Physical Systems group, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2018 - 2020: Graduate Research Assistant, Mobile and Networked Systems Lab, CU Boulder, USA.
• 2018: Researcher, Real-time and embedded systems lab, KAIST, South Korea.
• 2015-2016, Associate Lecturer, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

Speaking engagements

• “Robust Sensing and Efficient Computing for Intelligent Biosignal-based Earables”, Earable computing tutorial at ACM MobiCom 2022.

Committees and reviewing

• Committees

  1. ACM BodySys 2024, Technical Program Committee.
  2. Taith Research Mobility Program 2023-2024, Review Panel.
  3. ACM MobiSys 2023-2024, Artifact Evaluation Committee.
  4. ACM SenSys 2022, Technical Shadow Program Committee.

• Reviewer

  1. The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI) 2023.
  2. IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing 2022.
  3. ACM MobiCom 2019-2023.
  4. ACM MobiSys 2021-2022.
  5. ACM SenSys 2019-2020.
  6. ACM HotMobile 2021.
  7. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems 2021.
  8. IEEE SECON 2020.
  9. IEEE/ACM CHASE 2020.

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of Intelligent and Efficient Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-based Sensing, Edge-AI and On-chip Computing. I am having fully-funded PhD positions (School's scholarships), more details can be found at my lab's website (https://www.agilecps.org/home). 

I am currently supervising:

PhD students:

• Kha Huynh, PhD student (joining in Oct/2024, funded by EPSRC DTP studentship).
• Nima Valizadeh, Research Engineer.

Undergraduate and Master's students:

• Loic Lorente Lemoine, BSc final project on "Design a tiny machine learning model to detect epileptic seizures on wearables".
  
• Hadeel Abed, BSc final project on "Controlling IoT devices with our brain, eyes, and facial muscles".
  
• Sanad Jarrad, BSc final project on "Capturing heart activities by using acoustic signals from mobile phones".
• Eryk Bojczewski, BSc final project on "Developing Lego Self-driving IoT Cars".
• And several BSc and MSc students are a personal tutor.

Past projects

I have supervised and mentored several PDRA (postdoctoral research associate), PhDs and master's students at the University of Oxford and the University of Colorado Boulder (USA).

• Ada Alevizaki, DPhil student, EPSRC AIMS CDT at Oxford, co-supervised with Niki Trogoni, submitted her DPhil thesis on "Smartwatch-based semantic learning of elements of human behaviour" in Jan 2024.
• Xinyu Hou, PDRA, Cyber-Physical Systems group at Oxford, mentoring with Niki Trogoni and Andrew Markham. 
• Tuan Tran, PhD student, University of Colorado Boulder.
• Leopold Beuken, PhD student, Peer-mentoring, University of Colorado Boulder.
• Amit Roy, MSc student, University of Colorado Boulder.