Cardiff University – School of Computer Science and Informatics

• Mode of study: Full-time
• Expected accomplishment: 2028

Profile: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/huynhh

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

• Mode of study: Full-time, by Research.
• GPA: 8.77 / 10 (about 3.5 / 4.0), got a score of 9.3 / 10 in the Graduation Thesis.
• Presented an article at The 6th International Conference on Information Technology, Information Systems and Electrical Engineering (ICITISEE) 2022.

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

• GPA: 8.04 / 10 (about 3.2 / 4.0), got perfect scores in some favourite subjects.
• Spent two seasons in a robot creation competition called ABU Robocon with enthusiastic teammates.
• Experienced a season of another robotic competition named Robot Battles.
• Founded and have been leading a student development organization named TickLab.
• Participated in many volunteer activities organized by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.
• Proposed new practical exercises for the Programming Fundamentals subject as a Teaching Assistant.
• Have been the Head of the Organizing Committee of an annual hackathon named Minathon.

DOI: 0.1109/ICITISEE57756.2022.10057806

DOI: 10.1109/NICS56915.2022.10013436

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.24-5-2021.169971

Technology

• Internet of Things
• Robotics
• Automotive Embedded system
• Semiconductor, LSI design

Economics

Psychology

Organizations, Businesses, and Entrepreneurship

Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

The same as what I did as an Associate Lecturer

New duties, new challenges:

• To review and revise the course syllabus of the subject Electrical Electronic Circuits
• To prepare and provide lectures and tests on the subjects:
  • Electrical Electronic Circuits
  • Internet of Things Application Development
  • LSI Logic Design

Recent graduation thesis instruction topic:

• Evaluate the efficiency of the HEAT routing algorithm in a LoRa-based wireless sensors network.
• Develop and implement an IoT system for smart homes.
• Design and implement an IoT gateway with a friendly configuration GUI and supporting several communications interfaces.
• Develop a motion sensing and controlling system for automated guided vehicles (AGV).
• Building an orders reception and production management support system for a 3D printing shop.
• Smart alarm clock.
• Develop an emulation environment for some common communication modules in IoT
• Develop an IoT system to monitor and control the microclimate in greenhouses

Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

Be responsible for:

• Preparing studying materials
• Preparing Lab exercises
• Preparing course assignments
• Instructing experimental classes
• Preparing questions for the mid-term and final exams
• Assessment and grading
• Laboratory operations and management

In subjects:

• Digital Systems
• Logic Design with Verilog HDL
• Electrical Electronic Circuits
• Embedded Systems
• Internet of Things Application Development
• Courses projects
• Graduation projects
• Graduation internship

Other activities:

• Participated in research projects and programs in the field of the Internet of Things.
• Participated in organizing international conferences in the fields of computer sciences, engineering, and technology, such as ICIT2022 and NICS2022.
• Worked as a representative of the faculty and department with partner enterprises on the cooperation between the two.
• Founded and have been leading the Computer Engineering Academic Club (CEAC), which organized several academic competitions and activities for Computer Engineering students.
• Designed and manufactured new educational experiment boards / KITs:
  • 80 units of the Digital Systems KIT named TICKIT v1.0, used for the Digital Systems subject, the experiment sessions.
  • 30 units of the extension board for the Digilent Arty Z7 development KIT, used for the Logic Design with Verilog HDL subject’s assignments.
  • 5 units of the baseboards for the STM32F407 Discovery KIT, used for vehicle-type robot development.
• Provided academic advice to students.
• Participated in many extracurricular activities as a main speaker or a co-trainer.
• Also, took part in plenty of other kinds of tasks supporting the operations of the faculty and department.

atWare Vietnam Company Limited, HCMC, Vietnam

(A new branch of the atWare, Inc., Japan, since July 2020)

I joined the company in April 2020, three months before it was officially established in July 2020, my roles in the company were as follows:

As a Founding Supporter:

• Investigating the operational costs for the new branch in
• Researching the Vietnamese labour market and recruitment channels for the Software Engineer, Project Manager, and Product Owner positions.
• Making the plan to recruit the first employees for the company.
• Procuring initial assets for the company and setting up the workplace.
• Proposing the first employee benefits policies that include monthly allowances, company event budgets, and employee training programs.

As an Operations Assistant:

• Developing the general workflows and problems diagnostics and troubleshooting processes.
• Following up on the company’s operations and raising operational problems.
• Investigating the root causes of operational problems that occurred and finding solutions.
• Observing and optimizing the company’s operating overhead.

As an HR Officer

• Defining and holding company culture events.
• Promoting the company branding into the labour market via social networks.
• Connecting and keeping in contact with universities for future Freshers hiring.
• Planning, preparing, and launching events to approach the university students, such as the annual hackathon named Minathon at the HCMUT.
• Preparing and running the company booth at the annual CSE Job Fair event.
• Proceeding with the necessary procedures to accept interns from the HCMUT every summer.
• Joining in the entire recruitment process from CV screening to job offering.
• Looking up the Vietnam Labor Code to ensure the legality of contracts.

atWare, Inc. (a software solution company in Yokohama, Japan)

Project: In-class Assistant for Students and Professors (named “Kati”, which means Kha & Tien).

• 2-week users’ story investigation practice at Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus
• Software requirements engineering.
• Agile software development methodology and Scrum model
• Version control and teamwork with Git and BitBucket.
• Web Application Development with ReactJS, ExpressJS, and MongoDB.
• Web Application Deployment with the Heroku Cloud Platform.
• Other cultural experiences, such as the company’s teambuilding events, or personal outdoor activities.

Website: https://www.ticklab.vn/

Co-founder & Leader

• Held numerous meetings with other co-founders to lay the very first bricks.
• Designed and renovated the organization’s structure, administration model, members’ development programs, working flows, and troubleshooting process.
• Defined and timely modified the organization’s vision and missions according to practical situations.
• Proposed and annually amended the organization’s charter, rules, regulations, policies, and code of conduct.
• Designed and run various activities to realize the organization’s visions, missions, and strategies.
• Specified and have been sustaining the organization’s culture and core values.
• Have been following up on the organization’s operations; and diagnosed and troubleshot operational problems.
• Made plans and directly participated in plenty of internal training and mentoring programs.
• Led the team to plan, prepare, and launch various community campaigns to contribute to technology students’ development through sequences of academic sharing events and posts.
• Made strategic decisions in dealing with difficulties and have been coming up with future development strategies.

A system to monitor land subsidence of highways in Australia, in collaboration with Dr Van Dau at Giffith University, Queensland

Roles: R&D Engineer and Team Leader

Contributions:

• Research and development of the system-level solution, IoT gateway, and sensor nodes
• Built an R&D team. Tasks: Recruitment, training, and management
• Directed the development of the dedicated hardware to the project and a mesh networking protocol for a LoRa-based wireless sensor network
• Worked with industry partners to proceed with the prototype production

Title: “Building an air quality monitoring, forecasting, and warning system based on multi-source data collection and integration, piloting for a large urban area.”

Project code: KC-4.0-25/19-25

Governed by:            Ministry of Science & Technology

Major contributions:

Output: Scientific reports with implementation-ready designs, submitted to the Ministry of Science & Technology

A project to improve the students’ studying equipment at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City

• Analyzing the user’s story to specify functional and non-functional requirements.
• Making a project’s financial plan.
• Circuit board layout sketching.
• Preparing and presenting the product proposal to the customers.
• Defining and training team members on the teamwork rules and the design rules.
• Designing, implementing, testing, and revising the product prototypes.
• Hardware design process:
  • Schematic design and validation.
  • PCB layout.
  • Firmware programming
• Prototype inspection.
• Finding and negotiating with domestic and international PCB fabrication companies and electronic components suppliers.
• Making mass production, quality assurance, and quality control plans.
• Proceeding with the importing procedures.
• Packaging design and order.

A project just for fun

• Designed 3D parts and assembly drawing with SolidWorks
• Ordered parts manufacturing and assemble the machine
• Configured the Marlin firmware
• Changed the behaviour of the “pause” function.

Project: Enabling distributedly self-powered wearables for mobile healthcare applications

Coverage: 100% tuition fee + living expenses + research grants for 3.5 years, commencing from Oct 2024

Funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)

Institution: School of Computer Science and Informatics – Cardiff University

• Sunflower Mission (SFM) scholarship
• Global Cybersoft Scholarship
• KMS Scholarship
• Sacramento and DOVE Fund Scholarship