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Dr Nhat Nick Pham DPhil (Oxon)
Lecturer
School of Computer Science and Informatics
- PhamN@cardiff.ac.uk
- Abacws, Floor 3, Room 3.62, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am an academic at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, UK. My research interests include Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge-AI for Healthcare and Wellbeing, Quantum-based Human Sensing, and Embedded Operating Systems. Before joining Cardiff University, I obtained my DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford in 2023 and also worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the EPSRC ACE-OPS project from 2022 to 2023. My research are recognised by CACM Research Highlight 2021, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2020, ACM GetMobile'19 Research Highlight, and the Best Paper at ACM MobiCom'19. I also helped to spin off a tech startup (Earable Inc.) and produced multiple international patents. My group’s work has featured in several press articles from Bloomberg, BBC News, DailyMail, Euronews, etc.
Publication
2023
- Pham, N. et al. 2023. Detection of microsleep events with a behind-the-ear wearable system. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 22(2), pp. 841-857. (10.1109/TMC.2021.3090829)
- Alevizaki, A., Pham, N. and Trigoni, N. 2023. Invited paper: Hierarchical activity recognition with smartwatch IMU. Presented at: 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Kharagpur, India, 4-7 January 2023ICDCN '23: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. New York, US: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 48–57., (10.1145/3571306.3571390)
2022
- Dang, T., Tran, T., Nguyen, K., Pham, T., Pham, N., Vu, T. and Nguyen, P. 2022. ioTree: a battery-free wearable system with biocompatible sensors for continuous tree health monitoring. Presented at: ACM MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 769-771., (10.1145/3495243.3558749)
- Pham, N. et al. 2022. PROS: an efficient pattern-driven compressive sensing framework for low-power biopotential-based wearables with on-chip intelligence. Presented at: MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 661-675., (10.1145/3495243.3560533)
- Dang, T., Tran, T., Nguyen, K., Pham, T., Pham, N., Vu, T. and Nguyen, P. 2022. IoTree: a battery-free wearable system with biocompatible sensors for continuous tree health monitoring. Presented at: MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 352-366., (10.1145/3495243.3567652)
2021
- Bui, N. et al. 2021. eBP: an ear-worn device for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring. Communications of the ACM 64(8), pp. 118-125. (10.1145/3470446)
2020
- Nguyen, P. et al. 2020. DroneScale: drone load estimation via remote passive RF sensing. Presented at: SenSys '20: The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Virtual Event Japan, 16-19 November 2020SenSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 326-339., (10.1145/3384419.3430778)
- Kim, T., Nguyen, P., Pham, N., Bui, N., Truong, H., Ha, S. and Vu, T. 2020. Epileptic seizure detection and experimental treatment: a review. Frontiers in Neurology 11, article number: 701. (10.3389/fneur.2020.00701)
- Pham, N. et al. 2020. WAKE: a behind-the-ear wearable system for microsleep detection. Presented at: MobiSys '20: 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15-19 June 2020MobiSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 404-418., (10.1145/3386901.3389032)
- Truong, H. et al. 2020. Painometry: wearable and objective quantification system for acute postoperative pain. Presented at: MobiSys '20: 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15-19 June 2020MobiSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 419-433., (10.1145/3386901.3389022)
- Bui, N. et al. 2020. eBP: frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring from inside human's ears. GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications 23(4), pp. 34-38. (10.1145/3400713.3400721)
2019
- Bui, N. et al. 2019. eBP: a wearable system for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring from user's ear. Presented at: MobiCom '19: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Los Cabos Mexico, 21-25 October 2019MobiCom '19: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 1-17., (10.1145/3300061.3345454)
- Pham, N., Kim, T., Thayer, F. M., Nguyen, A. and Vu, T. 2019. Earable -- an ear-worn biosignal sensing platform for cognitive state monitoring and human-computer interaction (demo). Presented at: MobiSys '19: 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 17-21 June 2019MobiSys '19: Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 685-686., (10.1145/3307334.3328582)
- Tolcha, Y. k. et al. 2019. Oliot-OpenCity: open standard interoperable smart city platform. Presented at: 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, MO, USA, 16-19 September 20182018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656763)
2018
- Pham, N., Kwon, K. and Kim, D. 2018. MSHCS-MAC: A MAC protocol for Multi-hop cognitive radio networks based on Slow Hopping and Cooperative Sensing approach. Presented at: 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Natal, Brazil, 25-28 June 20182018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). IEEE pp. 00001-00007., (10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538496)
2017
- Pham, N., Hassan, M., Nguyen, H. M. and Kim, D. 2017. GS1 global smart parking system: one architecture to unify them all. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 June 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE pp. 479-482., (10.1109/SCC.2017.69)
- Kim, H. et al. 2017. IsV2C: an integrated road traffic-network-cloud simulator for V2C connected car services. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 June 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE pp. 434-441., (10.1109/SCC.2017.62)
Articles
- Pham, N. et al. 2023. Detection of microsleep events with a behind-the-ear wearable system. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 22(2), pp. 841-857. (10.1109/TMC.2021.3090829)
- Bui, N. et al. 2021. eBP: an ear-worn device for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring. Communications of the ACM 64(8), pp. 118-125. (10.1145/3470446)
- Kim, T., Nguyen, P., Pham, N., Bui, N., Truong, H., Ha, S. and Vu, T. 2020. Epileptic seizure detection and experimental treatment: a review. Frontiers in Neurology 11, article number: 701. (10.3389/fneur.2020.00701)
- Bui, N. et al. 2020. eBP: frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring from inside human's ears. GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications 23(4), pp. 34-38. (10.1145/3400713.3400721)
Conferences
- Alevizaki, A., Pham, N. and Trigoni, N. 2023. Invited paper: Hierarchical activity recognition with smartwatch IMU. Presented at: 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Kharagpur, India, 4-7 January 2023ICDCN '23: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. New York, US: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 48–57., (10.1145/3571306.3571390)
- Dang, T., Tran, T., Nguyen, K., Pham, T., Pham, N., Vu, T. and Nguyen, P. 2022. ioTree: a battery-free wearable system with biocompatible sensors for continuous tree health monitoring. Presented at: ACM MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 769-771., (10.1145/3495243.3558749)
- Pham, N. et al. 2022. PROS: an efficient pattern-driven compressive sensing framework for low-power biopotential-based wearables with on-chip intelligence. Presented at: MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 661-675., (10.1145/3495243.3560533)
- Dang, T., Tran, T., Nguyen, K., Pham, T., Pham, N., Vu, T. and Nguyen, P. 2022. IoTree: a battery-free wearable system with biocompatible sensors for continuous tree health monitoring. Presented at: MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, Australia, 17- 21 October 2022MobiCom '22: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 352-366., (10.1145/3495243.3567652)
- Nguyen, P. et al. 2020. DroneScale: drone load estimation via remote passive RF sensing. Presented at: SenSys '20: The 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Virtual Event Japan, 16-19 November 2020SenSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 326-339., (10.1145/3384419.3430778)
- Pham, N. et al. 2020. WAKE: a behind-the-ear wearable system for microsleep detection. Presented at: MobiSys '20: 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15-19 June 2020MobiSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 404-418., (10.1145/3386901.3389032)
- Truong, H. et al. 2020. Painometry: wearable and objective quantification system for acute postoperative pain. Presented at: MobiSys '20: 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15-19 June 2020MobiSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 419-433., (10.1145/3386901.3389022)
- Bui, N. et al. 2019. eBP: a wearable system for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring from user's ear. Presented at: MobiCom '19: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Los Cabos Mexico, 21-25 October 2019MobiCom '19: The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 1-17., (10.1145/3300061.3345454)
- Pham, N., Kim, T., Thayer, F. M., Nguyen, A. and Vu, T. 2019. Earable -- an ear-worn biosignal sensing platform for cognitive state monitoring and human-computer interaction (demo). Presented at: MobiSys '19: 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 17-21 June 2019MobiSys '19: Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 685-686., (10.1145/3307334.3328582)
- Tolcha, Y. k. et al. 2019. Oliot-OpenCity: open standard interoperable smart city platform. Presented at: 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, MO, USA, 16-19 September 20182018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656763)
- Pham, N., Kwon, K. and Kim, D. 2018. MSHCS-MAC: A MAC protocol for Multi-hop cognitive radio networks based on Slow Hopping and Cooperative Sensing approach. Presented at: 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Natal, Brazil, 25-28 June 20182018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). IEEE pp. 00001-00007., (10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538496)
- Pham, N., Hassan, M., Nguyen, H. M. and Kim, D. 2017. GS1 global smart parking system: one architecture to unify them all. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 June 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE pp. 479-482., (10.1109/SCC.2017.69)
- Kim, H. et al. 2017. IsV2C: an integrated road traffic-network-cloud simulator for V2C connected car services. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 June 20172017 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). IEEE pp. 434-441., (10.1109/SCC.2017.62)
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
- 2021: Communication of the ACM Research Highlight.
- 2020: ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight.
- 2020-2023: University of Oxford DPhil Scholarship.
- 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
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Reviewer
- The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI) 2023.
- IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing 2022.
- ACM MobiCom 2019-2023.
- ACM MobiSys 2021-2022.
- ACM SenSys 2019-2020.
- ACM HotMobile 2021.
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems 2021.
- IEEE SECON 2020.
- IEEE/ACM CHASE 2020.
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Committees
- Technical Shadow Program Committee ACM SenSys 2022.
Research themes
Specialisms
- Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
- Human-centred computing
- Mobile computing
- Electronics, sensors and digital hardware