Golden Globe Computer Science (2006)
awarded by the Vietnam Prime Minister for 8 persons with major contributions to the advance of Computer Science.
The Most Outstanding Vietnamese Student in the UK (2014)
awarded by Vietnam Embassy London for 1 Vietnamese student with outstanding research achievements.
Most Inspirational Lecturer of the Year (2021)
awarded by Brighton Students' Union, voted by the undergraduate students.
Outstanding PhD Research Supervisor Award (2022)
awarded by Brighton's Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research.
Outstanding Student Support Award (2023)
awarded by Brighton Students' Union, voted by the undergraduate students.
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".
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".
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".
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.
Ph.D research funding (£45,000)
full tuition fee waiver, plus £15,000/year stipend, funded by Royal Holloway University.
Donald Davies scholarship (£3,000)
awarded by Royal Holloway University to the most outstanding Royal Holloway undergraduate based on the admission interview.
Best Research Paper Award
9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA 2020).
Best Research Paper Award
11th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2022).
Best Poster Award
Machine Learning for Healthcare 2022 (Institute of Physics).
'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".
'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".
Quality Research REF investment fund (Principal Investigator) (£24,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Machine Learning for Remanufacturing".
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.
'Rising Star' Award 2022 (Principal Investigator) (£10,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Transfer Learning based Future Pandemic Preparedness".
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".
Conference organisation fund (Principal Investigator) (£5,100)
funded by University of Brighton to organise the COPA 2022 conference.
PhD studentship (£50,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for my PhD student, Sidra Junaid.
PhD studentship (£14,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for my PhD student, Sean Feng.
Quality Research Investment grant (Principal Investigator) (£7,000)
funded by University of Brighton for the COVID-19 contact tracing project.
'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".
'Connected Futures' research grant (Principal Investigator) (£1,500)
funded by University of Brighton for the project "Asynchronous contact tracing with smartphone sensors".
University of London travelling grant
This funding supports my all travelling and research activities in 2015.
1st & 2nd Prizes in the University of London - Cool Computing Competition
I was awarded a Silver Trophy and £250 for my winning Robots.
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)
2nd Prize in the Semi-Professional Programming Competition.
Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 01 LN/KT)
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)
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)
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)
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)
1st Prize in the Vietnam Practical Programming Competition.
(Certification No. 285 QĐ/GD&ĐT)
1st Prize in the Vietnam Practical Programming Competition
(Certification No. 181 KT/QĐ-GD&ĐT)
2nd Prize in the VIII Vietnam Regional Software Invention Competition
(Certification No. 318/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)
2nd Prize in the VI Vietnam Regional Programming and Algorithms Competition
(Certification No. 284 QĐ/GD&ĐT)
Invention Youth Medal
awarded by the Central Executive Board of Vietnam.
Creative Youth Medal
awarded by the Central Executive Board of Vietnam.