Nhu-Ngoc Dao

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul

Biography

Nhu-Ngoc Dao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He received the B.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Viet Nam, in 2009. Prior to joining Sejong University, he was a Visiting Researcher with the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, in 2019 and a Postdoc Researcher with the Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland, from 2019 to 2020. He was a Visiting Professor at Chung-Ang University from 2023 to 2024. He received the 2025 Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award. He is currently an Editor of the ICT Express, Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE journals. Dr. Dao is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM. Contact him at nndao@sejong.ac.kr.

Research interests: network softwarization, mobile cloudification, communication security, intelligent systems, and Internet of Things.

Experience

03.2020 – Present

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong University, South Korea.

03.2020 – Present

Director, Privacy-Sensitive Heterogeneous Hypercomputing (PSHH) lab, Sejong University, South Korea.

09.2023 - 02.2024

Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, South Korea.

09.2019 - 02.2020

Postdoc, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland.
(Advisor: Prof. Torsten Braun)

07.2019 - 08.2019

Visiting Researcher, CDSC Center, University of Newcastle, Australia.

03.2014 - 08.2019

MS/PhD student in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, South Korea.
(Advisor: Prof. Sungrae Cho)

01.2009 - 02.2014

Engineer, Technology Department, Global Telecommunication Corporation (GTEL), Vietnam.

09.2004 - 12.2008

BS student in Electronics & Telecoms, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam.

Projects

Development of end-to-end 8 ultra-communication and networking technologies
Sponsor: IITP (South Korea)

07.2022 – 12.2029

Assisting natural beekeeping in rural and remote areas using LoRa-based IoT and drones
Sponsor: ISIF Asia (APNIC)

01.2023 – 06.2024

Intelligent adaptive bitrate video streaming empowered by cross-tier user-centric edge caching systems
Sponsor: NRF (South Korea)

03.2021 – 02.2024

Hit ratio and content quality tradeoff for adaptive bitrate streaming in edge caching systems
Sponsor: IACF (Sejong University)

03.2020 – 02.2021

Supervision

  • Anh Tuan Nguyen (Vietnam), PhD student since 09.2024
  • Duc Quyen Mac (Vietnam), MS student since 03.2026
  • Caleb Amanuel Wossen (USA), MS student since 09.2025
  • Md Rakibul Islam (Bangladesh), MS student since 03.2025
  • Minh Phuoc Nguyen (Vietnam), MS student since 09.2024
  • Samuel Harry Gardner (UK), BS student (03.2022 - 08.2024), MS student since 09.2024
  • Islam Md Mahrab (Bangladesh), MS student since 09.2024
  • Fayshal Ahmed (Bangladesh), MS student (03.2023 - 02.2025)
  • Teshager Hailemariam Moges (Ethiopia), MS student (09.2022 - 08.2024)
  • The-Vinh Nguyen (Vietnam), MS student (09.2021 - 08.2023)

Invited talks/keynotes

Intelligent networking infrastructure for digital twins towards urban intelligence
National Institute for Digital Technologies and Digital Transformation

Nov. 18, 2025
Hanoi, Vietnam

Artificial intelligence of things: State-of-the-art and applications
Kongju National University

Sep. 25, 2024
Cheonan, South Korea

Aerial communication and computing in drone swarms
UAS center, University of Southern Denmark

Aug. 09, 2024
Odense, Denmark

Multi-antenna transmission and beam management in mobile networks
Big Data Innovation Talent Training Center, Chung-Ang University

Feb. 03, 2023
Seoul, South Korea

Achievements

Editorial Contribution Award
Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)

2025

Best Paper Awards
IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC)

2021, 2022

CAU Alumni Award for Excellent PhD Dissertation
Chung-Ang University Graduate Students Union

2019

Certificate of Merits for Outstanding Academic and Research Achievements in Korea
The Ambassador of Vietnam in Korea

2019

Golden Globe Award in ICT
Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and Ministry of Science and Technology Vietnam

2018

Services

  • Founding chair of International Conference on Intelligence of Things (ICIT) since 2022.
  • Founding chair of International Conference on Intelligent Aerial Access and Applications (IAAA) since 2025.
  • Founding chair of International Conference on Explainable Intelligence in Digital Twins (EIDT) since 2025.
  • Editor of ICT Express (since 2024), Scientific Reports (since 2022), and PLOS ONE (since 2022).
  • Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ACM.

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