Nam Nguyen PhD – IT Specialist

Dr. Nam Nguyen specialize in Sensing and Communication Systems. He hold a PhD of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His experience range from designing intelligent algorithm to process sensing signal to building electronic device to capture data and deploying a full client-server platform to aggregate data across multiple devices.

Education

BS – Electronical and Computer Engineering – University of Sydney -2002

PhD – Electronical and Computer Engineering – University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA- 2009

Past projects

– Design a patented technology  to locate mobile phone in cars.

– Patent a new protocol for device to device communication

– Develop algorithm for a smart tool to detect leak inside oil wells.

– Design and develop a IT platform to record and store farming activities for quality tracing and verification.

Patents

Continuous beamforming while moving: method to reduce spatial aliasing in leak detection (WO2016209388A1)

Inventor(s): Yi Yang Ang, Nam Nguyen, Joni Lie

Priority date: Jun 26, 2015

Acoustic array signal processing for flow detection (WO2016115012A1)

Inventor(s): Yinghui Lu, Avinash Taware, Paris Smaragdis, Nam Nguyen, David Welsh, Clifford Macklin, Daniel Viassolo

Priority date: Jan 11, 2016

Leak detection via Doppler shift differences in moving hydrophones (WO2016153460A1)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen

Priority date: Mar 20, 2015

Method and system for initial synchronization and collision avoidance in device to device communications without network coverage (Granted US 9,210,690)

Inventor(s): Yufei Wu Blankenship, Nam Nguyen, Sagar Dhakal

Priority date: Mar 13, 2013 (http://patents.justia.com/patent/9210690)

Adaptive pilot placement for estimation of vehicle-to-vehicle wireless channel (Granted US 9,094,862)

Inventor(s): Sagar Dhakal, Nam Nguyen, James Earl Womack

Priority date: Mar 13, 2013 (http://patents.justia.com/patent/9094862)

Device, system and method for smart notification (CA2831376)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen

Priority date: Nov 9, 2012

System and method for communicating with a portable electronic device (CA2829234)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen, Yufei Wu Blankenship

Priority date: Nov 27, 2012

Localization of a Wireless User Equipment (UE) Device Based on Audio Masking (Granted US 9,165,547)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen, Sagar Dhakal

Priority date: Sep 7, 2012 (http://patents.justia.com/patent/9165547)

Localization of a Wireless User Equipment (UE) Device Based on Out-Of-Hearing Band Audio Signatures for Ranging (Granted US 9,286,879)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen, Sagar Dhakal

Priority date: Sep 17, 2012 (http://patents.justia.com/patent/9286879)

Localization of a Wireless User Equipment (UE) Device Based on Single Beep per Channel Signatures (Granted US 9,078,055)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen, Sagar Dhakal

Priority date: Sep 7, 2012 (http://patents.justia.com/patent/9078055)

Sensor-based wireless communication systems using compressed sensing with sparse data (US 13/521,557)

Inventor(s): Nam Nguyen, Thomas A. Sexton

Priority date: Jan 11, 2010

 

Publications

  1. Walters, F. Hill, Y. Lu, N. Nguyen, S. Jagannathan, Y. Ang and J. Reid, “Locating and imaging leaks using new acoustic array technology”,  in Proc. Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 2016
  2. Nguyen, S. Dhakal and J. Womack, “Localization of handheld devices inside vehicles using audio masking”,  in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Connected Vehicles and Expo,2013, pp. 38-42
  3. Dhakal, N. Nguyen and J. Womack, “Adaptive pilot placement for estimation of vehicle to vehicle wireless channel”,  in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Connected Vehicles and Expo,2013, pp. 216-220
  4. Dhakal, Y. Jia and N. Nguyen, “NLOS-communication between shadowed vehicles using by-standing relay vehicles”, in Proc. 15th IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems,2012, pp. 479-484
  5. Nguyen and T.A. Sexton, “Can compressed sensing be efficient in communication with sparse data?”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Radio and Wireless Symposium,2011, pp. 339-342
  6. Nguyen, D.L. Jones, Y. Yang and C. Liu, “Flow vision for autonomous underwater vehicles via an artificial lateral line”, in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing,2011, pp. 9
  7. Yang, N. Nguyen, N. Chen, M. Lockwood, C. Tucker, H. Hu, H. Bleckmann, C. Liu and D.L Jones, “Artificial lateral line with biomimetic neuromasts to emulate fish sensing”, in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2010.
  8. Nguyen, D.L. Jones and S. Krishnamurthy, “Netcompress: Coupling network coding and compressed sensing for efficient data communication in wireless sensor networks”, in Pro. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems,2010, pp 351-361.
  9. Nguyen, I. Wiegand and D.L. Jones, “Sparse beamforming for active underwater electrolocation”, in Pro. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,2009, pp. 2033-2036.
  10. Nguyen, S. Krishnamurthy, P. Xie, D.L. Jones, “Improving information availability in storage-centric sensor networks”, in Pro. IEEE Int. Conf. on Local Computer Networks,2008, pp. 82-90.