VP Nguyen

Selected Publications

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

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

• DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Remote Passive RF 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
  

• 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, P. 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, P. 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
  

• 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, K. 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
  

• 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
  

• 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.
  

• 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
  

• 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!
  

• 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
  [PAPER], [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
  

Full Publication List

Activities

Technical Program Committee

• 2022: ACM MobiCom
• 2021: ACM MobiSys, ACM SenSys, IEEE MSN
• 2020: ACM SenSys/BuildSys Joint Doctoral Colloquium; ACM DroNet
• 2018: ACM MobiSys PhD Forum
• 2017: ACM MobiCom S3; ACM SenSys - FAILSAFE; IEEE VTC

Chair and Co-Chair

• 2021: ACM DroNet, Sensing Session Chair at MobiSys
• 2017: ACM MobiCom - S3

Panelist

• 2020: ACM SenSys/BuildSys Joint Doctoral Colloquium
• 2020: ACM MobiSys - Birds of a Feather: Faculty Job Search During Recession

Journals Reviewer

• ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Sensors
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• Elsevier Computer Networks

Awards

• SONY Faculty Innovation Award 2021
• UT Rising Stars Award 2021
• ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2020
• Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom 2019
• Best Paper Runner up Award, ACM SenSys 2018
• ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2017
• Best Paper Award Nominee, ACM SenSys 2017
• NSF Student Travel Grant Award from ACM MobiSys 2017, SenSys 2016, MobiSys 2016, INFOCOM 2016
• Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom-S3 2017
• Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom-S3 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science in 2016.
• Best paper presentation award, KCC 2013.
• Best paper award, KSII 2012.
• Sunflower Mission Senior Project Sponsorship 2010.
• Electronics and Telecommunications Academic Contest at University of Science (HCMUS) (2008 - 2009).
• Received 1^st prize in 2009 and 2^nd prize in 2008
• Annual scholarships of Vietnamese Government for excellent students at University of Science (HCMUS) 2008 - 2010.

CV

• CV.pdf