University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alumnus, Computer Science

Thesis Title: Characterizing and Leveraging People Movement for Content Distribution in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks (https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/18347)

About

I graduated my Ph.D. study at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois in 2010. I joined Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) group in 2006. My Ph.D. thesis advisor was Professor Klara Nahrstedt.


In 2001, I completed my undergraduate in Computer Science at Vietnam National University at Hanoi (VNU). Then, I worked as a lecturer at the College of Technology (COLTECH), VNU until I won the Vietnam Education Foundation fellowship (VEF) in 2004. In August 2004, I started my Ph.D. program at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HONOR and AWARD

2012: Vietnam Education Foundation Science Award

2011: Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2011, acceptance rate 11%, http://www.percom.org/?q=markweiser)

2008: First prize in Computing Habitat Programming Competition, awarded by the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007: Student Travel Grant awarded by Military Communications Conference. Orlando, Florida, USA. (October 28 -31)

2006: Best project (CS598IG: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - graduate level course)

2004: Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship for Ph.D. study in United States

2001: Second prize at Students' Scientific Research Conference, awarded by College of Technology

2000: An Exemplary of Vietnam National University (VNU) at Hanoi awarded by the President of VNU for the excellent academic results

1999: Diploma of Merit for excellent results in the studies and social activities, offered by the President of College of Technology

1999: Scholarship for the best student of Physics Department, Hanoi University of Natural Science, sponsored by HASEBE, Japanese Bank Foundation

1998: Scholarship for the best student of Physics Department, Hanoi University of Natural Science, sponsored by HASEBE, Japanese Bank Foundation


MEDIA COVERAGE

1. New Scientist Magazine, "'Pre-social network' finds you friends in your hang-outs",( http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228405.900-presocial-network-finds-you-friends-in-your-hangouts.html and http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228403.300-taking-the-chance-out-of-chance-encounters.html)

2. London Daily Mail, "Phone app which tells you where to find a new love or people who share your interests" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065489/Phone-app-tells-new-love-people-share-interests.html)

3. Yahoo News,"'Minority Report' style pre-social network finds you friends in your hangouts" (http://in.news.yahoo.com/minority-report-style-pre-social-network-finds-friends-122735722.html)

4. Crazy Engineers,"Pre-Social Network ‘Jyotish’ Predicts Where You Are Going" (http://www.crazyengineers.com/pre-social-network-jyotish-predicts-where-you-are-going-1356/)

SOFTWARE & TRACE RELEASE

1. PPCrawler Live source code and trace have 1500+ downloads from 40+ countries worldwide since 2008, http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/downloads.

2. University of Illinois Movement (UIM) Trace (Wifi and Bluetooth traces of Google Android phones), http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu/downloads.