Khuong Nguyen

Ph.D, M.Phil, B.Sc

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Awards & Grants

  • 1

    Golden Globe Computer Science (2006)

    awarded by the Vietnam Prime Minister for 8 persons with major contributions to the advance of Computer Science.

  • 2

    The Most Outstanding Vietnamese Student in the UK (2014)

    awarded by Vietnam Embassy London for 1 Vietnamese student with outstanding research achievements.

  • 3

    Most Inspirational Lecturer of the Year (2021)

    awarded by Brighton Students' Union, voted by the undergraduate students.

  • 4

    Outstanding PhD Research Supervisor Award (2022)

    awarded by Brighton's Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research.

  • 5

    Outstanding Student Support Award (2023)

    awarded by Brighton Students' Union, voted by the undergraduate students.

  • 6

    SBRI FOAK 2023 - Optimised Train Operations Rail Demonstrations Grant (Principal Investigator) (£297,326)

    funded by Innovate UK for the project "DataSim: A Machine Learning-powered simulation tool for rail timetable optimisation".

  • 7

    Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG) (Principal Investigator) (£29,029)

    funded by Department for Transport for the project "Machine vision for live congestion estimation on train carriages".

  • 8

    AKT2I Competition Research Grant (Principal Investigator) (£25,522)

    funded by Innovate UK (UKRI) for the project "Machine vision segmentation for automated UK train tracking and railway maintenance".

  • 9

    Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) (Co-Investigator) (£170,639)

    funded by Innovate UK (UKRI) for the project "Automatic work scheduling and predicitive maintenance for the die-cuts tool life" with Parafix Ltd.

  • 10

    Ph.D research funding (£45,000)

    full tuition fee waiver, plus £15,000/year stipend, funded by Royal Holloway University.

  • 11

    Donald Davies scholarship (£3,000)

    awarded by Royal Holloway University to the most outstanding Royal Holloway undergraduate based on the admission interview.

  • 12

    Best Research Paper Award

    9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA 2020).

  • 13

    Best Research Paper Award

    11th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2022).

  • 14

    Best Poster Award

    Machine Learning for Healthcare 2022 (Institute of Physics).

  • 15

    'Santander's Global Challenges' Research Grant 2022 (Principal Investigator) (£1,700)

    funded by Santander for a summer intership to work on the project "COVID-19 patient detection via smartphone recorded coughs".

  • 16

    'Enhancing Research Culture Grant' (Principal Investigator) (£2,250)

    funded by Santander & Research England for a summer intership to work on the project "Performance evaluation of a Machine Vision algorithm for automatic UK railway maintenance".

  • 17

    Quality Research REF investment fund (Principal Investigator) (£24,000)

    awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Machine Learning for Remanufacturing".

  • 18

    Research Innovation Technology Exchange (Principal Investigator) (£28,000)

    funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund, for 4 projects: "Augmented Audience Intelligence" with Ziggi Analytics, "Circular Economy" with Circlular Inc., "Next-gen GPS" with Naurt, and "Student mental health prediction" with OLT ERP.

  • 19

    'Rising Star' Award 2022 (Principal Investigator) (£10,000)

    awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Transfer Learning based Future Pandemic Preparedness".

  • 20

    Quality Research Start-up investment grant (Principal Investigator) (£4,000)

    awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Transfer Learning for cough-based COVID-19 detection".

  • 21

    Conference organisation fund (Principal Investigator) (£5,100)

    funded by University of Brighton to organise the COPA 2022 conference.

  • 22

    PhD studentship (£50,000)

    awarded by University of Brighton for my PhD student, Sidra Junaid.

  • 23

    PhD studentship (£14,000)

    awarded by University of Brighton for my PhD student, Sean Feng.

  • 24

    Quality Research Investment grant (Principal Investigator) (£7,000)

    funded by University of Brighton for the COVID-19 contact tracing project.

  • 25

    'Radical Futures' research grant (Principal Investigator) (£2,000)

    funded by University of Brighton for the project "Rethinking the London public transport’s seating plan to reduce respiratory diseases transmission".

  • 26

    'Connected Futures' research grant (Principal Investigator) (£1,500)

    funded by University of Brighton for the project "Asynchronous contact tracing with smartphone sensors".

  • 27

    University of London travelling grant

    This funding supports my all travelling and research activities in 2015.

  • 28

    1st & 2nd Prizes in the University of London - Cool Computing Competition

    I was awarded a Silver Trophy and £250 for my winning Robots.

  • 29

    1st Prize in the XI National Software Invention Competition

    My mobile phone app addressed the traffic problem during rush hours in Vietnam. (Certification No. 441/TWĐTN)

  • 30

    2nd Prize in the Semi-Professional Programming Competition.

    Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 01 LN/KT)

  • 31

    1st Prize in the Programming and Algorithms Competition - Grade 12

    Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 176/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)

  • 32

    1st Prize in the Programming and Algorithms Competition - Grade 11

    Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 318/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)

  • 33

    1st Prize in the Programming and Algorithms Competition - Grade 10

    Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 261/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)

  • 34

    Silver Medalist in the Olympic 30/4 - Programming and Algorithms Competition

    Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in the South of Vietnam. (Certification No. 318/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)

  • 35

    1st Prize in the Vietnam Practical Programming Competition.

    (Certification No. 285 QĐ/GD&ĐT)

  • 36

    1st Prize in the Vietnam Practical Programming Competition

    (Certification No. 181 KT/QĐ-GD&ĐT)

  • 37

    2nd Prize in the VIII Vietnam Regional Software Invention Competition

    (Certification No. 318/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)

  • 38

    2nd Prize in the VI Vietnam Regional Programming and Algorithms Competition

    (Certification No. 284 QĐ/GD&ĐT)

  • 39

    Invention Youth Medal

    awarded by the Central Executive Board of Vietnam.

  • 40

    Creative Youth Medal

    awarded by the Central Executive Board of Vietnam.