Selected Publications

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• An Open-Source Data Storage and Visualization Platform for Collaborative Qubit Control
  Nature Scientific Reports 2024
  Devanshu Brahmbhatt, Yilun Xu, Neel Vora, Larry Chen, Neelay Fruitwala, Gang Huang, Qing Ji, Phuc VP Nguyen
  

• ML-Powered FPGA-based Real-Time Quantum State Discrimination Enabling Mid-circuit Measurements
  Preprint arXiv 2024
  Neel R. Vora, Yilun Xu, Akel Hashim, Neelay Fruitwala, Ho Nam Nguyen, Haoran Liao, Jan Balewski, Abhi Rajagopala, Kasra Nowrouzi, Qing Ji, K. Birgitta Whaley, Irfan Siddiqi, Phuc VP Nguyen, Gang Huang.
  

• An Unobtrusive and Lightweight Ear-worn System for Continuous Epileptic Seizure Detection
  Preprint arXiv 2024
  Abdul Aziz, Nhat Pham, Neel Vora, Cody Reynolds, Jaime Lehnen, Pooja Venkatesh, Zhuoran Yao, Jay Harvey, Tam Vu, Kan Ding, and Phuc VP Nguyen
  

• Real-Time Diagnostic Integrity Meets Efficiency: A Novel Platform-Agnostic Architecture for Physiological Signal Compression
  Preprint arXiv 2023
  Neel R Vora, Amir Hajighasemi, Cody T. Reynolds, Amirmohammad Radmehr, Mohamed Mohamed, Jillur Rahman Saurav, Abdul Aziz, Jai Prakash Veerla, Mohammad S Nasr, Hayden Lotspeich, Partha Sai Guttikonda, Thuong Pham, Aarti Darji, Parisa Boodaghi Malidarreh, Helen H Shang, Jay Harvey, Kan Ding, Phuc Nguyen, Jacob M Luber
  

• IOTeeth: Intra-Oral Teeth Sensing System for Dental Occlusal Diseases Recognition
  IMWUT/UbiComp 2024
  Zhizhang Hu*, Amirmohammad Redmehr*, Yue Zhang, Shijia Pan, Phuc VP Nguyen
  *equal contribution

• Earables as Medical Devices: Opportunities and Challenges
  ACM EarComp 2023 in association with UbiComp/IMWUT 2023
  Abdul Aziz, Ravi Karkar, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey and Phuc Nguyen
  

• Towards the Internet of Living Trees for Precision Agriculture
  GetMobile
  Jackson Liller, Trung Tran and Phuc Nguyen
  

• Exploring Batteryless UAVs by Mimicking Bird Flight
  ACM DroNet IX '23
  Rishabh Goel, Tien Pham, Phuc Nguyen and Josiah Hester.
  

• Towards Robust Lidar-based 3D Detection and Tracking of UAVs
  ACM DroNet IX '23
  Tasnim Azad Abir, Endrowednes Kuantama, Richard Han, Judith Dawes, Rich Mildren and Phuc Nguyen.
  

• DroneChase: A Mobile and Automated Cross-Modality System for Continuous Drone Tracking
  ACM DroNet IX '23
  Neel Vora, Yi Wu, Jian Liu and Phuc Nguyen.
  

• Provider and Patient Opinions on Real-Time Seizure Detection via Over-the-Ear Device, Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG): EEG & Seizure Detection Technology.
  American Academy of Neurology, Boston, 2023
  Pooja Venkatesh, Zhuoran Yao, Christopher Andrew, Jami Landers, Jessica Simon, Phuc VP Nguyen, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey.
  

• Personalized feedback messaging perspectives in a qualitative study among Black and Hispanic women: Implications for future mHealth behavioral interventions.
  International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden.
  Brannon, G. E., Affleck, H., Mitchell, S., Wiland, R., Munoz, V., Brown, K. K., Aghajani, H., Phuc VP Nguyen, & Liao, Y.
  

• Social Media ads as a method of research recruitment: A comparison of minority women who enrolled vs. who completed a focus group.
  2023 Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
  Affleck, H.A., Brannon, G. E., Aghajani, H., Phuc VP Nguyen, Brown, K. K., Liao, Y.
  

• Real-time Seizure Detection Using Behind-the-ear Wearable System
  American Epilepsy Society Annual Conference 2022, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  Jamie Lehnen, Tien Pham, Pooja Venkatesh, Zhuoran Yao, Christopher Andrew, Jami Landers, Jessica Simon, Phuc VP Nguyen, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey
  

• MuteIt: Jaw Motion based Unvoiced Command Recognition using Earable
  ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2022
  Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jain
  

• IoTree: A Battery-free Wearable System with Biocompatible Sensors for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring
  ACM MobiCom 2022
  Tuan Dang, Trung Tran, Khang Nguyen, Tien Pham, Nhat Pham, Tam Vu, Phuc Nguyen
  

• PROS: an Efficient Pattern-Driven Operating System for Low-Power Healthcare Wearables
  ACM MobiCom 2022
  Nhat Pham, Hong Jia, Minh Tran, Tuan Dinh, Nam Bui, Young Kwon, Dong Ma, Phuc Nguyen, Cecilia Mascolo, Tam Vu
  

• FinePose: Fine-Grained Postural Muscle Profiling via Haptic Vibration Signals
  ACM MobiSys-WearSys 2022
  Shubham Rohal, Shreya Shriram, Phuc Nguyen, Shijia Pan
  

• Demo: Leveraging Earables for Unvoiced Command Recognition
  ACM MobiSys Demo 2022
  Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc Nguyen, Shubham Jian
  

• Sedentary Posture Muscle Monitoring via Active Vibratory Sensing IPSN Poster 2022
  Shreya Shriram, Shubham Rohal, Zhizhang Hu, Yue Zhang, Phuc Nguyen, Shijia Pan
  Best Poster Award.
  

• TeethVib: Monitoring Teeth Functional Occlusion Through Retainer Vibration Sensing
  IEEE/ACM CHASE 2021
  Shijia Pan, Dong Yoon Lee, Jun Ho Lee, Phuc Nguyen
  

• FaceSense: Sensing Face Touch with an Ear-worn System
  UbiComp 2021
  Vimal Kakaraparthi, Qijia Shao, Charles J. Carver, Tien Pham, Nam Bui, Phuc Nguyen, Xia Zhou, Tam Vu
  

• BioFace-3D: Continuous 3D Facial Rconstruction Through Lightweight Single-ear Biosensors
  ACM MobiCom 2021
  Yi Wu, Vimal Kakaraparthi, Zhuohang Li, Tien Pham, Jian Liu, Phuc Nguyen
  ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights Award.
  

• JawSense: Recognizing Unvoiced Sound using a Low-cost Ear-worn System
  ACM Hotmobile 2021
  Prerna Khanna, Tanmay Srivastava, Shijia Pan, Shubham Jain, Phuc Nguyen
  

• DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Remote PassiveRF Sensing
  ACM SenSys 2020
  (44 out of 213 submissions, acceptance ratio: 20.6%).
  Phuc Nguyen, Vimal Kakaraparthi, Nam Bui, Nikshep Umamahesh, Nhat Pham, Hoang Truong, Yeswanth Guddeti, Dinesh Bharadia, Eric Frew, Richard Han, Dan Massey, Tam Vu
  

• Opportunities in the Cross-Scale Collaborative Human Sensingof ‘Developing’ Device-Free and Wearable Systems
  ACM BuildSys - DFHS 2020
  Shijia Pan and Phuc Nguyen
  

• Epileptic Seizure Detection and Experimental Treatment: A Review
  Frontiers in Neurology 2020
  Taeho Kim, Phuc Nguyen, Nhat Pham, Nam Bui, Hoang Truong, Sangtae Ha, and Tam Vu
  

• Painometry: Wearable and Objective Quantification System for Acute Postoperative Pain
  ACM MobiSys 2020
  (34 out of 175 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19.4%).
  H. Truong, N. Bui, Z. Raghebi, M. Ceko, N. Pham, Phuc Nguyen, A. Nguyen, T. Kim, K. Siegfried, E. Stene, T. Tvrdy, L. Weinman, T. Payne, D. Burke, T. Dinh, S. D’Mello, F. Banaei-Kashani, T. Wager, P. Goldstein, and T. Vu
  

• WAKE: A Behind-the-ear Wearable System for Microsleep Detection
  ACM MobiSys 2020
  (34 out of 175 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19.4%).
  N. Pham, T. Dinh, Z. Raghebi, T. Kim, N. Bui, Phuc Nguyen, H. Truong, F. Banaei-Kashani, A. Halbower, T. Dinh, and T. Vu
  

• eBP: A Wearable System For Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring From User’s Ear
  ACM MobiCom 2019
  (30 out of 186 submissions, acceptance rate: 16.1%).
  Nam Bui, Nhat Pham, J. J. Barnitz, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Taeho Kim, Anh Nguyen, Zhanan Zou, Nicholas Farrow, Jianliang Xiao, Robin Deterding, Thang Dinh, Tam Vu
  Best Paper Award 2019; ACM SIGMOBILE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 2020; CACM RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 2020.
  

• Smartphone-Based SpO2 Measurement by Exploiting Wavelengths Separation And Chromophore Compensation
  ACM TOSN 2019
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding and Tam Vu
  

• Towards RF-based Localization of a Drone and Its Controller
  ACM DroNet 2019
  Phuc Nguyen, Taeho Kim, Jinpeng Miao, Daniel Hesselius, Erin Kenneally, Daniel Massey, Eric Frew, Richard Han and Tam Vu
  

• CapBand: Battery-free Successive Capacitance Sensing Wristband for Hand Gesture Recognition
  ACM SenSys 2018
  (23 out of 147 submissions, acceptance ratio: 15.6%).
  Hoang Truong, Shuo Zhang, Ufuk Muncuk, Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Qin Lv, Kaushik Chowdhury, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  Best Paper Award Runner up 2018.
  

• Body-Guided Communications: A Low-power, Highly-Confined Primitive to Track and Secure Every Touch
  ACM MobiCom 2018
  (47 out of 187 submissions, acceptance ratio: 22.5%).
  Viet Nguyen, Mohamed Ibrahim, Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Richard Howard, Marco Gruteser and Tam Vu
  

• TYTH-Typing On Your Teeth: Tongue-Teeth Localization for Human-Computer Interface
  ACM MobiSys 2018
  (37 out of 138 submissions, acceptance ratio: 26.8%).
  Phuc Nguyen, Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Abhijit Suresh, Matthew Whitlock, Duy Pham, Thang Dinh, and Tam Vu
  

• Volumetric Reconstruction of Thermal-depth Fused 3D Models for Occluded Body Posture Estimation
  Smart Health Journal 2018
  Shane Transue, Phuc Nguyen, Tam Vu, Min-Hyung Choi
  

• ParkSense: Automatic Parking Positioning by Leveraging In-Vehicle Magnetic Field Variation
  IEEE Access 2017
  Phuc Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen, Dong Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Hung M. La, and Tam Vu
  

• Matthan: Drone Presence Detection by Identifying Physical Signatures in the Drone’s RF Communication
  ACM MobiSys 2017
  (34 out of 188 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18%).
  Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han, and Tam Vu
  ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights, 2017 [DEMO]

• PhO2: Optical 3D printed elements and NIR/R light extraction techniques for phone-base blood oxygen level measurement
  ACM SenSys 2017
  (26 out of 151 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.2%)
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding and Tam Vu
  Best Paper Award Nominee 2017; 2nd Prize ACM MobiCom 2017 App Contest.
  [DEMO]
  

• Photometry based Blood Oxygen Estimation through Smartphone Cameras
  ACM MobiCom 2017 - S3 Workshop
  Nam Bui, Anh Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Hoang Truong, Ashwin Ashok, Thang Dinh, Robin Deterding and Tam Vu
  Best Paper Award, 2017
  

• Capacitive sensing 3D-printed Wristband for Enriched Hand Gesture Recognition
  ACM MobiSys-WearSys 2017
  Hoang Truong, Phuc Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Nam Bui and Tam Vu
  Best Senior Design Project in College of Engineering in 2016.
  Thank Sean Kuhlman, Cory Coellen, Michael Hunsinger, and Raphael O'Flynn!
  [DEMO]

• Thermal-Depth Fusion for Occluded Body Skeletal Posture Estimation
  IEEE/ACM CHASE 2017
  Shane Transue, Phuc Nguyen, Tam Vu and Min-Hyung Choi
  

• Battery-Free Identification Token for Touch Sensing Devices
  ACM SenSys 2016
  (21 out of 119 submissions, acceptance ratio: 17.6%).
  Phuc Nguyen, Ufuk Muncuk, Ashwin Ashok, Kaushik R Chowdhury, Marco Gruteser and Tam Vu
  Best CS Senior Design Project in 2017.
  Thank Ed Salisbury, Lily Dam, Bradley Dufresne, and Fiot.vn team!
  [DEMO]

• WikiSpiro: Non-contact Respiration Volume Monitoring during Sleep
  ACM MobiCom-S3 2016 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.
  Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, NewYork, USA, October 2016.
  Phuc Nguyen, Shane Transue, Ann Halbower, Min-Hyung Choi, and Tam Vu
  Best Paper Award, 2016
  

• Continuous and Fine-grained Breathing Volume Monitoring from Afar Using Wireless Signals
  IEEE INFOCOM 2016
  (300 out of 1644 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.25%).
  Phuc Nguyen, Xinyu Zhang, Ann Halbower, and Tam Vu
  ACM MobiCom - S3 Best Paper Award, 2016 [DEMO]

• Investigating Cost-effective RF-based Detection of Drones
  ACM MobiSys - DroNet 2016
  Phuc Nguyen, Mahesh Ravindranathan, Anh Nguyen, Richard Han and Tam Vu
  

• Real-time Tidal Volume Estimation using Iso-surface Reconstruction
  IEEE/ACM CHASE 2016
  Shane Transue, Phuc Nguyen, Tam Vu and Min-Hyung Choi
  [DEMO]