Assistant Professor
Director, Wireless & Sensor Systems Laboratory
College of Information & Computer Sciences
Institute for Applied Life Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lederle Graduate Research Center (LGRC), A235,
740 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003
Email: vp.nguyen@cs.umass.edu
Office Hours: Mondays/Wednesdays 3pm-4pm
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 Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass.
Prior to UMass, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington from 2020 to 2023. He is the recipient of CACM Research Highlights 2020, 2021, ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights 2017, 2020, 2022, SONY Faculty Innovation Award, IALS Midigrants 2024, 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.
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. We are also interested in sustainable quantum computing, and with Berkeley Lab, we have made some exciting progress. Reach out to us to learn more!
Earables as Medical Devices: Opportunities and Challenges
EarComp-UbiComp'23
Abdul Aziz, Ravi Karkar, Kan Ding, Jay Harvey, and Phuc VP Nguyen
Towards the Internet of Living Trees for Precision Agriculture
GetMobile 2023
Jackson Liller, Trung Tran, and Phuc VP Nguyen
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, Quantum Week (QCE) 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.
Laser-based Drone Vision Disruption with a Real-time Tracking System for Privacy Preservation
Expert Systems with Applications 2024 (IF: 7.5)
Endrowednes Kuantama, Yihao Zhang, Faiyaz Rahman, Richard Han, Judith Dawes, Rich Mildren, Tasnim Azad Abir, Phuc VP Nguyen.
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
3D Facial Tracking and User Authentication through Lightweight Single-ear Biosensors
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2024 (IF: 7.7)
Yi Wu, Xiande Zhang, Tianhao Wu, Bing Zhou, Phuc VP Nguyen, Jian Liu
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, Phuc VP Nguyen
Jawthenticate: Microphone-free Speech-based Authentication using Jaw Motion and Facial Vibrations
ACM SenSys 2023
(34 out of 179 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.9%).
Tanmay Srivastava, Shijia Pan, Phuc VP Nguyen, Shubham Jain
Enabling Low-Cost Server-Level Power Monitoring in Data Centers Using Conducted EMI
ACM SenSys 2023
(34 out of 179 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.9%).
Pranjol Sen Gupta, Zahidur Talukder, Tasnim Azad Abir, Phuc VP Nguyen, Mohammad A. Islam
Exploring Batteryless UAVs by Mimicking Bird Flight
MobiSys-DroNet IX 2023
Rishabh Goel*, Tien Pham*, Phuc VP Nguyen, Josiah Hester.
*equal contribution
MuteIt: Jaw Motion based Unvoiced Command Recognition using Earable
IMWUT/UbiComp 2022
Tanmay Srivastava, Prerna Khanna, Shijia Pan, Phuc VP Nguyen, Shubham Jain
IoTree: A Battery-free Wearable System with Biocompatible Sensors for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring
ACM MobiCom 2022
(Acceptance Ratio 17.8%).
Tuan Dang, Trung Tran, Khang Nguyen, Tien Pham, Nhat Pham, Tam Vu, Phuc VP Nguyen
Featured by GetMobile 2023
PROS: an Efficient Pattern-Driven Operating System for Low-Power Healthcare Wearables
ACM MobiCom 2022
(Acceptance Ratio 17.8%).
Nhat Pham, Hong Jia, Minh Tran, Tuan Dinh, Nam Bui, Young Kwon, Dong Ma, Phuc VP Nguyen, Cecilia Mascolo, Tam Vu
BioFace-3D: Continuous 3D Facial Reconstruction Through Lightweight Single-ear Biosensors
ACM MobiCom 2021
(Acceptance Ratio 17.4%).
Yi Wu, Vimal Kakaraparthi, Zhuohang Li, Tien Pham+, Jian Liu, Phuc VP Nguyen
ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights 2022
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 VP Nguyen, Xia Zhou
*equal contribution
DroneScale: Drone Load Estimation Via Remote Passive RF Sensing
ACM SenSys 2020
(44 out of 213 submissions, acceptance ratio: 20.6%).
Phuc VP 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