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Hello, I’m Nhan — welcome to my page.

👨🏻‍💻 I’m an Assistant Professor and Academy Research Fellow at Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu (UOulu), Finland.
🤖 My research combines rigorous signal processing and machine learning to solve core problems in wireless communications and sensing.

📚 About

🎓 I received my B.S. in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam (2014), and my M.S./Ph.D. from Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), South Korea (2017/2020).
🧑‍🔬 I joined UOulu as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2020, was conferred the Title of Docent and awarded the prestigious Academy Research Fellowship in 2023, and was promoted to Assistant Professor (tenure track) in 2024.
🌍 I have also been a Visiting Scholar at North Carolina State University, USA (2019–2020), Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2022), and University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA (2023).

Research interests: signal processing and optimization; deep unfolding / machine learning for massive MIMO; mmWave/THz communications; ISAC/JCAS; multimodal-sensing-assisted communications.

🏅 Selected honors: 4 Best Paper Awards (ISAP 2025, IEEE SPAWC 2024, IEEE SSP 2023, ATC 2021). Academy of Finland Fellowship (2023). Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE TCOM (2023). Nokia Foundation Award – Jorma Ollila Grant (2022). Best Master and Doctoral Dissertation Awards, SeoulTech, 2020. Samsung Talent Scholarship, Samsung Vietnam R&D Center, 2014.

🏆 Highlighted publications

N. T. Nguyen, V.-D. Nguyen, H. V. Nguyen, H. Q. Ngo, A. L. Swindlehurst, and M. Juntti, “Performance Analysis and Power Allocation for Massive MIMO ISAC,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 73, pp. 1691–1707, Mar. 2025.
Top reading in IEEE TSP since publication

N. T. Nguyen, L. V. Nguyen, N. Shlezinger, Y. C. Eldar, A. L. Swindlehurst, and M. Juntti, “Joint Communications and Sensing Hybrid Beamforming Design via Deep Unfolding,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 901–916, Jul. 2024.
Top reading in IEEE TSP and IEEE SPS Top-25 downloads (2024–2025)

N. T. Nguyen, M. Ma, O. Lavi, N. Shlezinger, Y. C. Eldar, A. L. Swindlehurst, and M. Juntti, “Deep Unfolding Hybrid Beamforming Design for THz Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 3788–3804, Oct. 2023.
Top reading in IEEE TSP (2023–2024)

N. T. Nguyen, N. Shlezinger, Y. C. Eldar, and M. Juntti, “Multiuser MIMO Wideband Joint Communications and Sensing System with Subcarrier Allocation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 2997–3013, Aug. 2023.
Top reading in IEEE TSP and IEEE SPS Top-25 downloads (2023–2024)

N. T. Nguyen and M. Juntti, “Hybrid RIS-aided Wireless Communications,” International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Nov. 2025.
Best Paper Award

M. Ma, N. T. Nguyen, I. Atzeni, and M. Juntti, “Analysis of Oversampling in Uplink Massive MIMO-OFDM with Low-Resolution ADCs,” IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sep. 2023.
Best Student Paper Award

N. T. Nguyen, N. Shlezinger, K.-H. Ngo, V.-D. Nguyen, and M. Juntti, “Joint communications and sensing design for multi-carrier MIMO systems,” IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), July 2023.
Best Paper Award

K.-H. Ngo, N. T. Nguyen, T. Q. Dinh, T.-M. Hoang, and M. Juntti, “Low-Latency and Secure Computation Offloading Assisted by Hybrid Relay-Reflecting Intelligent Surface,” International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Oct. 2021.
Best Paper Award

📰 Recent news

• Dec 12, 2025: 🏆📈 Our paper “Joint Communications and Sensing Hybrid Beamforming Design via Deep Unfolding” is listed among the 25 most downloaded papers in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing for Sep. 2024 to Sep. 2025. An invited webinar highlighting the key findings will be released early next year.
• Oct 30, 2025: 🏆 Our paper “Hybrid RIS Aided Wireless Communications” won the Best Paper Award at ISAP 2025.
• Sep 23, 2025: 📄 Ali’s and Phuong’s papers accepted to IEEE NFV-SDN 2025.
• Sep 9, 2025: 📄 Paper accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
• Aug 20, 2025: 📄 Abolfazl’s paper accepted to IEEE Communications Letters.
• Aug 1, 2025: 📄 Abolfazl’s paper accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2025.
• Jul 16, 2025: 📄 Phuong’s paper accepted to Asilomar 2025.
• May 25, 2025: 📄📄 Two papers accepted to IEEE SPAWC 2025 by Ali and Smriti.
• May 17, 2025: 📄 Mengyuan’s paper accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
• May 4, 2025: 📄 Mengyuan’s paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• Mar 18, 2025: 📄 Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

🕰️ Older highlights

• Dec 21, 2024: 📄 Three papers accepted to IEEE WCNC.
• Dec 20, 2024: 📄 Two papers accepted to IEEE ICASSP.
• Dec 12, 2024: 📄 EuCAP 2025 acceptance on ML-assisted RIS for ISAC.
• Oct 24, 2024: 🏆📈 TSP paper listed among SPS Top 25 downloads for Sep 2023 to Sep 2024.
• Sep to Jul 2024: 📄 Multiple acceptances in T-VT, JSTSP SI on ISAC, GLOBECOM, Asilomar, and SPAWC.
• 2021 to 2023: 🏆 Best Paper Awards at SSP, SPAWC, and ATC; major journal acceptances including TWC, TSP, and VTM; Academy Fellowship awarded in 2023.