Assistant Professor
Director, Wireless & Sensor Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
500 UTA Blvd, Arlington, TX 76010
Email: vp.nguyen@uta.edu
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VP Nguyen founded and directs Wireless and Sensor Systems Laboratory (WSSL) at the University of Texas at Arlington, where his team is focusing on building wireless, mobile and embedded systems to identify the opportunities for cyber-physical system-based solutions to monitor and improve human health conditions and their living environments. He has been building wearable, mobile, and wireless sensing systems to monitor human breathing volume, brain activities, muscle activities, skin surface deformation, blood pressure for various healthcare applications. He has also developed systems to monitor objects in the environment such as drones, cars, trees, etc. He is the recipient of CACM Research Highlights 2020, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2020, Best Paper Award at ACM MobiCom 2019, Best Paper Runner up Award at ACM SenSys 2018, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight 2017, Best Paper Nominee at ACM SenSys 2017, Best Paper Awards at ACM MobiCom-S3 2016-2017. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was supervised by Prof. Tam Vu.
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
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
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!
WikiSpiro: Non-contact Respiration Volume Monitoring during Sleep
ACM MobiCom-S3 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
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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