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VICE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
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Andrew Parfitt is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Technology Sydney. He joined UTS in February 2017 as the university’s Provost and Senior Vice-President before being appointed Vice-Chancellor in November 2021. Previously Andrew was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Newcastle. He has also held senior leadership roles at the University of South Australia and the CSIRO. Andrew has had a distinguished career as an educator and researcher in telecommunications engineering, specialising in antennas and radio systems and has made contributions to satellite communications, radio astronomy technologies and space engineering. Andrew has published more than 100 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), AUSTRALIA
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Ray Owen is a leading expert in network resilience, telecommunications infrastructure, and digital modelling, with over 30 years of experience spanning industry, research, and governance. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1995, where his research focused on Modelling High-Frequency Acoustic Scattering from a Rough Surface, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) from King's College London, completed in 1992. Currently, Ray serves as an Industry Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as well as the lead in the UTS telecom research unit with contracts spanning NBN, Telstra and the federal government. His research and commercial expertise encompass telecommunications resilience, fixed-line networks, wireless networking, and network modelling. He is also the Director of the Australian National Telecommunications Resilience Centre, where he leads efforts to enhance the robustness of national and global telecom infrastructures.
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LUXEMBOURG UNIVERSITY, LUXEMBOURG
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Symeon Chatzinotas (MEng, MSc, PhD, FIEEE) is currently Full Professor / Chief Scientist I and Head of the research group SIGCOM in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. In parallel, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, an Eminent Scholar of the Kyung Hee University, Korea and a Collaborating Scholar of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. In the past, he has been a Visiting Professor at EPFL, Switzerland and University of Parma, Italy and contributed in numerous R&D projects for the Institute of Telematics and Informatics, Center of Research and Technology Hellas and Mobile Communications Research Group, Center of Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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Karu Esselle, FRSN, FIEEE, FIEAust, is Distinguished Professor in Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is Australia’s 2022 Professional Engineer of the Year, and the leader of the MetaSteerers Team that won Australia’s national 2023 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia, making him the only person to receive both a Eureka Prize and the Professional Engineer of the Year Award. Last year he also received the 2024 Premier’s Prize for Leadership in Innovation in NSW. Karu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, IEEE and Engineers Australia. His large collection of recent awards include the most prestigious Space award in Australia – the “Winner of Winners” Excellence Award – as well as the Academic of Year Award at the 2022 Australian Space Awards, 2022 UTS Chancellor’s Medal, both the Excellence Award and the Academic of the Year Award at 2021 Australian Defence Industry Awards, and 2019 Motohisa Kanda Award (from IEEE USA) for the most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on EMC in the past five years.
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DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
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Dr Truyen Tran is Professor at Deakin University where he is leading a world-class research team on competent and human-compatible AI through advanced machine learning. He and his team have made numerous contributions in deep learning, generative AI, machine reasoning, unifying language and vision, cognitive architectures and social AI. As Head of AI, Health and Science, he leads the effort to push the transformation of science, healthcare and engineering through AI. These include efficient exploration of molecular space, acceleration of drug discovery, materials characterisation, battery design and optimisation, and automation of software engineering. Dr Tran has received multiple recognitions, awards and prizes for his research contributions at top AI conferences and journals. He holds a BSc. from the University of Melbourne (2001) and a PhD in Computer Science from Curtin University (2008).
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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Prof. Michael Bremner, Director of the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at UTS and work package leader, node manager, and program manager in the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, is a leader in the Australian quantum ecosystem and one of the most recognised global names in theoretical quantum computing. Prof. Bremner is widely known for pioneering the core algorithms that define what is now known as quantum supremacy. This work led to Google’s demonstration of the first quantum computation that was intractable for classical computers. As a leader in Australia’s quantum technology ecosystem, he has championed the need for diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and skills if Australia is to stay at the forefront of quantum technologies. He is a board member and helped establish the Sydney Quantum Academy where he has co-developed programs that have led to talent creation, industry engagement, and research excellence. Other leadership roles include membership on the advisory board for Transport for NSW’s efforts in quantum computing, co-editor in Chief of the Nature Partner Journal: Quantum Information, member of the Quantum Australia Growth Centre consortium committee, co-founding the Australian Quantum Software Network, and advising for the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer. His impactful research has led to significant industry engagement as a performer on the DARPA Quantum Benchmarking program, recipient of funding through Google's Digital Future Initiative, and the ASCA Emerging Disruptive Technologies program.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS)
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Marian-Andrei Rizoiu is an Associate Professor leading the Behavioral Data Science lab at the University of Technology Sydney. His interdisciplinary research crosses computer and social sciences, blending psycholinguistics, digital communication and stochastic modelling to understand human attention dynamics in the online environment, the emergence of influence and opinion polarization. Dr Rizoiu is the recipient of the prestigious Excellence Award and Academic of the Year at the 2023 Australian Defence Industry Awards. He currently leads grants worth $1.8 million from the Commonwealth of Australia to detect and model the spread of mis- and disinformation and its weaponized counterparts – information and influence operations.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), AUSTRALIA
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Stuart Perry has over 20 years of experience conducting research into image processing, virtual reality, psychophysics, signal processing, image quality, and models for the quantification of image preference and aesthetics for both government, industry and academia. From 2003 to 2016, he worked for Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA), a Canon group company and one of the Canon Group's largest R&D facilities outside of Japan. During this time, he worked on camera white balancing technologies, and led research teams working on print quality measurement, document security and perceptual quality measurement for various consumer devices. In 2016 he joined the FEIT's Perceptual Imaging Laboratory (PILab) as Co-Director conducting research into colour and perceptual quality in 3D environments. Stuart also represents PILab and UTS on a number of international standards committees such as ISO/TC42 (Photographic standards), ISO/SC29/WG7 (MPEG) and ISO/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) where he leads JPEG’s activity on point cloud coding standards and an editor for the upcoming ISO/IEC international standard on learning-based point cloud compression as well as co-chair of JPEG’s Radiance Field study group. He is also a member of SPINet and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is interested in point cloud and light field technologies, computer vision, 3D scanning and human perception in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality environments. He is the author of over 60 professional and academic publications including 2 books and 20 patents and patent applications and is an associate editor of the SPIE/IS&T Journal of Electronic Imaging.
Scientists
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), AUSTRALIA
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Diep N. Nguyen is currently a faculty member, Director of Agile Communications and Computing group, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia and holding adjunct positions at other universities in US, Vietnam, Japan. He received M.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and The University of Arizona (UA), respectively.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), AUSTRALIA
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Hoang Dinh received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2016. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Over the last ten years, he has significantly contributed to advanced wireless communications and networking systems. His excellent record evidences this with one patent filed by Apple Inc., five books, eight book chapters, more than 90 IEEE Q1 journals and 60 flagship IEEE conference papers in communications and networking. Most of his journal papers have been published in top IEEE journals, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE TWC, IEEE COMST, and IEEE TMC. Furthermore, his research papers have had a high impact, evidenced by more than 15,000 citations (according to Google Scholar) over the last ten years.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY
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Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz is the Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Previsouly, from 2015 to 2024, he was the Head of School of Electrical and Data Engineer at University of Technology Sydney. He began his research career in 1988 at the Research Laboratories of Overseas Telecommunications Corporation in Sydney. In the 1990s, while at OTC, Telstra and at University of Wollongong he conducted Research and Development into wired, wireless and mobile technologies. In 1999, he joined Motorola where he managed wireless research activities at Motorola Labs in Sydney. During that period he participated and contributed to the fast-developing IEEE WiFi standards. From 2004 to 2008 he worked at University of Wollongong as a Professorial Fellow leading a wireless research activity into broadband wireless networks and wireless sensor networks. From 2008 to 2015 he worked at Macquarie University where he was the Director of the Macquarie University WiMed Research Centre developing wireless technologies for medical applications. In November 2015 he joined University of Technology Sydney as the Head of School of Electrical and Data Engineering.
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POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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BiO; Ngoc T. Dang received the B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam in 1999, the M.E. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Hanoi, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, in 2010. He was an Invited Researcher with FOTON ENSSAT Lab., Universite de Rennes 1, France, in 2011, and a Research Fellow with Computer Communications Lab., The University of Aizu, Japan, in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor/Head with the Department of Wireless Communications, PTIT. His current research interests include the area of communication theory with a particular emphasis on modeling, design, and performance evaluation of optical CDMA, RoF, and optical wireless communication systems.
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POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT) and a Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research (acquiring VinAI's Research division since April 2025). I am also the Dean of Artificial Intelligence faculty and the Director of PTIT.AI Research Lab., PTIT. Previously, I was a Research Scientist at VinAI Research (from November 2019 to March 2025); a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Philips Research, High-Tech campus Eindhoven, the Netherlands; a Research Associate at Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK; a Research Assistant at Jornada Experimental Range, the United State Department of Agriculture, USA; and a Teaching Assistant at PTIT. My research interests include Deep Generative models, Computer Vision, Human Activity Recognition, Deep Learning and Pervasive Healthcare.
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UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), AUSTRALIA
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I am the Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater and a Professor in Environmental Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTS. The overarching aim of my work is to discover, develop, and transfer new knowledge, skills, and technologies that improve the provision of clean water and purification of wastewater in service to society. Prior to joining UTS, I have received research training and experience from the University of New South Wales, Yale University, University of Melbourne, and University of Wollongong. In 2009, I was a visiting professor at Colorado School of Mines. In May and June 2016, i was an August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. To date, I have supervised to completion 20 PhD and 8 MPhil students, and have overseen the delivery of numerous research projects with over $3 million in funding.
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VNU and UTS
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Xuan-Tu Tran received a B.Sc. degree in 1999 from Hanoi University of Science and a M.Sc. degree in 2003 from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, all in Electronics Engineering and Communications; and a Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Grenoble INP (at the CEA-LETI), France, in Micro Nano Electronics. He is currently a full professor at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), and the Director of VNU Information Technology Institute. He was an invited professor at the University Paris-Sud 11, France (2009, 2010, and 2015), the University of Electro-Communication, Tokyo (2019), Grenoble INP (2011), and adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney (2017–2023). He was the Director of the VNU Key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB) from 2016 to 2021, Co-Director of the Joint Technology and Innovation, Research Centre (JTIRC, 2017-2020). His research interests include designing and testing systems-on-chips, networks-on-chips, design-for-testability, asynchronous/synchronous VLSI design, low-power techniques, and hardware architectures for multimedia applications. He is in charge of CoMoSy, VENGME, ReSoNoC, IOTA, ADEN4IOT, Secu-IoT, UBGIoT projects for designing HW architectures of embedded systems and multimedia applications. He has published 3 books, 7 patents and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in these areas.
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HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Phi Le Nguyen is a lecturer at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. She received her B.E. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 2007 and 2010, respectively. She received her PhD degree in informatics from National institute of Informatics, Japan in 2019. Her major is networking which includes optimization of network protocols, optimization of network deployment, resource management and performance analysis of both wired and wireless networks. Currently, she is focusing on exploiting machine learning to enhance network performance.
Experts and Engineers
- Dr. Nam H. Chu, Lead Scientist, University of Technology Sydney
- Mr. Hieu Chi Nguyen, Engineer, University of Technology Sydney
- Mr. Tuan Minh Bui, Engineer, University of Technology Sydney
- Mr. Manh Duc Bui, Engineer, University of Technology Sydney
- Phai Vu Dinh, Engineer, University of Technology Sydney
- Dr. Nguyen Viet Hung, Expert, Post and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
- Dr. Vu Hoai Nam, Expert, Post and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
- Dr. Nguyen Duc Hoang, Expert, Post and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
- Mr. Hiroyuki Miura, MN MU Head SEA, Nokia
- Mr. Charles Chew, Head of Government Affairs, SEA, Nokia
- Mr. Shee-Yan Wong, ECE APAC SEA Tech Lead, Nokia
- Mr. Minh Pham Van, Head of Solutions, MN APAC CoE CSP Solutions, Nokia
- Mr. Apirom Thanee, Senior Technical Sales Manager, CNS ECE Sales APAC & IMEA Tech Sales, Nokia
- Mr. Pawan Kumar Sharma, Customer Project Manager, CNS ECE Sol MPS Delivery PM, Nokia
- Mr. Franklin Mampilly, Customer Project Manager, CNS ECE Sol MPS NDAC Delivery & Services, Nokia
- Mr. Naveed Ashraf, Senior Project Manager, CNS ECE Sol MPS Delivery APJ, Nokia