Principal Investigator

Biography

Tuy Nguyen is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. He held the positions of Lecturer at the School of Global Convergence Studies and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Inha University, from May 2021 to August 2022. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Conextt Inc., contributing from September 2019 to April 2021. He earned his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from Inha University in August 2019. 

Education

• 2/2016 – 8/2019: Ph.D., Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University, South Korea

• 3/2014 – 2/2016: M.S., Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University, South Korea

• 9/2004 – 8/2009: B.S., Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Da Nang University of Technology, Vietnam

Appointments

• 8/2022 – Present: Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University

• 9/2021 – 8/2022: Lecturer, School of Global Convergence Studies, Inha University, South Korea

• 5/2021 – 7/2022: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, South Korea

• 9/2019 – 4/2021: Senior Research Engineer, Research and Development Center, Conextt Inc., South Korea

• 3/2014 – 8/2019: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Inha University, South Korea

• 10/2009 – 2/2013: BTS/Field Engineer, Operations and Maintenance Department, GTel Mobile JSC, Da Nang Branch, Vietnam 

Honors & Awards

• 1/2025: Best Session Presentation Award, IEEE ICCE 2025

• 12/2024: First and Second Place for Undergraduate Research, 2024 SICCS Festival of Science

• 11/2024: Faculty Mentor Professional Learning Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity, Northern Arizona University

• 10/2024: FY2025 Student Mentored Research Grant - Fall 2024, State of Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund

• 5/2024: FY2024 Student Mentored Research Grant - Spring 2024, State of Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund

• 4/2024: Support for Graduate Students Awards, Office of the Vice President for Research, NAU

• 1/2024: CRII: OAC: Cyberinfrastructure for IoT Communications, National Science Foundation

• 12/2023: Third Place for Undergraduate Research, 2023 SICCS Festival of Science

• 11/2023: FY2024 Student Mentored Research Grant - Fall 2023, State of Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund

• 6/2023: NSF-CISE Student Participation Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Student Travel Grant, IEEE MWSCAS 2023

• 3/2023: Foundational Research for Electronic Warfare in Multi-Domain Operations, Army Research Laboratory, Department of Defense

• 3/2023:  FPGA Design for Hardware Security, State of Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund

• 11/2020: First Prize in Best Paper Award, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science

• 8/2019:  Outstanding Research Award, Dean's Choice of the Best Researcher, Graduate School, Inha University

• 11/2015: Top 10 Best Posters Award, 12th International SoC Design Conference

• 11/2013: Outstanding Student Award, Hanshin Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.

• 5/2011: Best Employee, GTel Mobile JSC

• 2006: Vallet Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Students

• 2006: Scholarship of Da Nang City Youth Union for Outstanding Undergraduate Students

Professional Services and Activities

Editor Board, Technical Committee,  Chair

• Editor Board, Journal of Science and Technology (ISSN: 1859–1531), 2022 – Present

• Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – Circuits and Systems for Communications, 2023 – Present

• Co-Organizer, Special Session on Advanced Cryptography and Its Applications, 43rd IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, NV, 11–14 Jan. 2025

• Session Chair, Deep Learning and Applications Session,  67th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Springfield, MA, 11–14 Aug. 2024

• Co-Organizer, Special Session on Advanced Cryptography and Its Applications, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan, 9–11 Jul. 2024

• Session Chair, 2023 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, May 2023

Panelist

• 2023 VICEROY Decree Symposium, February 2023

• 2022 SICCS Festival of Science, December 2022

Reviewer Activities

• Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Journals: TCAS-I, TCAS-II,  TVLSI, OJCAS

  • Other IEEE Journals: TSTE, TMC, Access, Communication Letters

  • IET Electronics Letters

  • International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications

  • Journal of Semiconductor Engineering

  • The Journal of Supercomputing

  • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing

• Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS): ISCAS 2019, ISCAS 2022 – Present

University Services

• Diversity Curriculum Committee (2024 – Present)

• Chair of ECE Curriculum Committee (2023 – 2024)

• Academia – Industry Collaboration Program

• Faculty Search Committees

• Founder and Director, Digital Systems Design Laboratory, 2022 – Present

Scholarly Talks and Presentations

• 1/2025: Secure and Reliable 6G Communications with BCH-Based GLDPC and Kyber, IEEE ICCE 2025, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 1/2024: A Software-Based Low-Latency Elliptic Curve Cryptography Design over Prime Fields, IMCOM 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Online)

• 5/2023: CKKS-Based Homomorphic Encryption Architecture using Parallel NTT Multiplier, IEEE ISCAS 2023, Monterey, California

• 5/2023: SPIE DCS 2023, Orlando, Florida

  • A Video Surveillance-Based Face Image Security System using Post-Quantum Cryptography

  • High-Secure Data Collection in IoT Sensor Networks using Homomorphic Encryption

• 2/2023: The Challenges of Teaching Post-Quantum Cryptography in U.S. Universities, Viceroy Decree Symposium (Online)

• 11/2022: Toward A Real-Time Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based Facial Security System, IEEE APCCAS 2022, Shenzhen, China (Online)

• 10/2021: Novel Performance Evaluation Approach of AMBA AXI-Based SoC Design, ISOCC 2021, Jeju, South Korea

• 9/2021: Ring-LWE Cryptography: From Software to Hardware Design, Northern Arizona University (Online)

• 5/2019: High Performance Ring-LWE Cryptoprocessor, 2019 SoC Conference, Daejeon, South Korea

• 2/2019: High-Throughput NTT Multiplier Design for Ring-LWE Cryptography, 26th Korean Conference on Semiconductors, Gangwon-do, South Korea

• 5/2017: A Delay-Efficient Ring-LWE Cryptography Architecture for Biometric Security, IEEE ISCAS 2017, Baltimore, Maryland

• 11/2015: High-Speed Low-Complexity Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor, ISOCC 2015, Gyeongju, South Korea

Tuy Nguyen on Media

• 9/2022: Tuy Nguyen is joining Northern Arizona University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. (Link)

• 1/2021: Tuy Nguyen receives "First Prize in Haedong Best Paper Award" from IEIE Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science. (Link)

Academic Genealogy

• Tuy Nguyen                 Ph.D. (2019)           Inha University

• Hanho Lee                 Ph.D. (2000)           University of Minnesota

• Gerald Sobelman Ph.D. (1979)           Harvard University