Computer Science Seminar: V.P Nguyen

This event is open to all Illinois Tech faculty and students. 

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems are going to transform many parts of human life, including health care, homes, cities, and environment. A cyber-physical system is the bridge between cyber and physical spaces, taking the most advanced technologies of both worlds and promising significant positive impacts on our everyday life. However, realizing its potentials requires significant efforts to address multiple technical challenges such as low signal-to-noise ratio, motion artifacts, and unobtrusive and long-term usage requirements. Throughout his academic career, V.P Nguyen has been addressing these challenges to realize novel cyber-physical systems to advance mobile sensing and communication technologies. In this talk, Nguyen will first discuss some of the selected novel wearable, mobile, and wireless sensing systems that he has been developing to monitor human breathing volume, brain activities, muscle activities, skin surface deformation, blood pressure, and blood oxygen level, etc. Nguyen will then share the experience and lessons learned through realizing these cyber-physical systems in the context of healthcare, human-computer interaction, and mobile system security. Nguyen will close by discussing his future research on continuing to distill context information through radio-based sensing combining other sensing modalities (e.g., electrical/light/ultrasound based sensing) to enable various applications such as sleep apnea detection, stress and emotions recognition, drone detection and localization, and tree-health monitoring.

Bio

Nguyen is a research scientist at the Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Colorado in 2018, his M.S degree from the Sungkyunkwan University in 2014, and his B.S degree from the VNUHCM-University of Science in 2010. His research identifies the opportunities for cyber-physical system-based solutions to monitor and improve human health conditions and their living environments that were previously unexplored. He has been building wearable, mobile, and wireless sensing systems to monitor human breathing volume, brain activities, muscle activities, skin surface deformation, blood pressure, and blood oxygen level for various health care applications. These developed systems have been validated on patients in clinical environments such as Colorado's Children Hospital and the University of Colorado School of Medicine to prove the medical meanings and technical advances of the novel devices and technologies. In addition, he has also been developing systems to monitor objects in the surrounding environments including drones, cars, and plants. He is the recipient of Best Paper Award at ACM MobiCom in 2019, Best Paper Runner up Award at ACM SenSys in 2018, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight Award in 2017, Best Paper Nominee at ACM SenSys in 2017, and Best Paper Awards at ACM MobiCom-S3 in 2016-2017. He was awarded Outstanding Computer Science Graduate Student in 2016.