Assistant Professor · Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences · UMass Amherst
Director, Wireless & Sensor Systems Laboratory
Co-Founder, VYRE · Airspace Forensics
College of Information & Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lederle Graduate Research Center (LGRC), A323 · 740 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003
Email: vp.nguyen@cs.umass.edu
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VP Nguyen founded and directs the Wireless and Sensor Systems Laboratory (WSSL) at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass. He is the co-founder of two startup companies spun out of his lab research, VYRE and Airspace Forensics. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2026, CACM Research Highlights 2020, 2021, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights 2017, 2020, 2022, IALS Translational Award 2025, SONY Faculty Innovation Award 2020, UTA CSE Pre-Tenure Research Award 2022, Best Paper Award at ACM MobiCom 2019, Best Paper Runner-up at ACM SenSys 2018, and Best Paper Nominee at ACM SenSys 2017. He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
WSSL's broad research interests are in the areas of AI-powered mobile/wearable computing and sustainable computing. Our research agenda has focused on Sustainable Autonomous Things (SATs) for the vision of the Internet of Sustainable Medical Things, Internet of Sustainable Living Things, and Internet of Sustainable Flying Things. Our work is interdisciplinary in nature, where we develop new techniques in sensor and sensing system development, algorithms, data analytics, signal processing, hardware, and firmware optimization to invent (1) a new class of “medical devices” that can continuously and unobtrusively collect novel and important health data in non-clinical settings, (2) a new class of “living sensors” that can live with plants/animals, and (3) a new class of “unmanned aerial vehicles” that requires extremely low maintenance.
