Golden Globe Computer Science
awarded by the Vietnam Prime Minister for 8 persons with major contributions to the advance of Computer Science.
Best Research Paper Award (2026)
46th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2026).
Outstanding PhD Research Supervisor Award (2026)
awarded by Royal Holloway's Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Education.
Safe Rail Installation in Constrained Environments (2026) (£193,706)
Funded by Innovate UK for the project "TunnelGuard: A Ground-Air Robotic Safety Twin for HS2 Construction".
Applied Machine Learning for High-Stakes Domains (2026) (£144,250)
Funded by industry.
PhD Industry Studentship (2025) (£92,000)
Funded by Southeastern Railway for a three-year stipend for a PhD student.
Top 30 Scientists for the Royal Society's Pairing Scheme (2024)
Selected by The Royal Society to support the UK Government in policy making.
Government AI Training (2024) (£21,000)
Funded by 10 Downing Street to organise a two-day AI training event for 100 senior government officials.
Feasibility Studies for AI Solutions (2024) (Co-Investigator) (£49,553)
Funded by Innovate UK for the project "Reliable Railway Data Summaries for enhanced Decision Support and Productivity".
Net Zero Living Digital (2024) (Principal Investigator) (£49,070)
Funded by Innovate UK for the project "Improving The Recycling Rate of Used Printer Cartridges Through Automatic Sortation".
KTP Pump-Prime (2024) (Principal Investigator) (£3,000)
Funded by Royal Holloway University for the project "A navigation system in crowded public spaces".
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".
'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".
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.
Outstanding PhD Research Supervisor Award (2022)
awarded by Brighton's Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research.
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".
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).
'Rising Star' Award 2022 (Principal Investigator) (£10,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Transfer Learning based Future Pandemic Preparedness".
Conference organisation fund (Principal Investigator) (£5,100)
funded by University of Brighton to organise the COPA 2022 conference.
PhD Studentship (2022) (£65,000)
Funded by University of Brighton for a three-year stipend and home tuition fee for my PhD student, Sidra Junaid.
Most Inspirational Lecturer of the Year (2021)
awarded by Brighton Students' Union, voted by undergraduate students.
'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".
Quality Research REF investment fund (Principal Investigator) (£24,000)
awarded by University of Brighton for the project "Machine Learning for Remanufacturing".
Start-up Fund (2021) (Principal Investigator) (£3,600)
Funded by University of Brighton for the project "Confidence Transfer Learning for cough-based COVID-19 detection".
QR Mid-year Investment Fund (2021) (Principal Investigator) (£4,100)
Funded by the School of Computing, Engineering and Maths for the project "Contact tracing with smartphone sensor traces".
'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".
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.
Best Research Paper Award
9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA 2020).
PhD Studentship (2020) (£25,000)
Funded by the School of Computing, Engineering and Maths for a three-year studentship for my PhD student, Xu Feng.
The Most Outstanding Vietnamese Student in the UK (2014)
awarded by Vietnam Embassy London for 1 Vietnamese student with outstanding research achievements.
Travel Grant (2014) (£1,500)
Funded by Royal Holloway University for conference travelling expenses.
Ph.D research funding (£45,000)
full tuition fee waiver, plus £15,000/year stipend, funded by Royal Holloway University.
1st & 2nd Prizes in the University of London - Cool Computing Competition
I was awarded a Silver Trophy and £250 for my winning Robots.
Overseas Undergraduate Scholarship (2007) (£85,000)
Funded by the Vietnamese Government for a three-year stipend for UK undergraduate study and living expenses.
Donald Davies scholarship (£3,000)
awarded by Royal Holloway University to the most outstanding Royal Holloway undergraduate based on the admission interview.
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 XI National Software Invention Competition
My mobile phone app addressed the traffic problem during rush hours in Vietnam. (Certification No. 441/TWĐTN)
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)
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 Programming and Algorithms Competition - Grade 10
Discrete Mathematics and problem solving competition in Danang city. (Certification No. 261/QĐ/GD&ĐT/THHC)
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 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.