Employment History

Feb 2023 - now
Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, International University, VNU-HCM, Vietnam.

July 2018 - Dec 2022
Research Fellow at the Sussex Ingestive Behaviour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

July 2015 - July 2018
Research Fellow at the Sussex Computer Human Interaction (SCHI) Lab, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

July 2014 - July 2015
Research Assitant at the Bristol Interaction & Graphics (BIG) Lab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol. UK.

May 2014 - July 2014
Research Assitant at the SPHERE Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol. UK.

Dec 2012 - May 2013
Research Fellow at the Interactive Content Design (ICD) Lab, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Jan 2009 - Mar 2009
Software Engineer at the Toshiba Software Development Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Aug 2006 - Dec 2006
System Administrator at BankNetVN, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Jun 2005 - Jun 2006
Research Assitant at R&D Lab, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Education

2010 - 2014
PhD in Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

2007 - 2008
MSc in Computer Science (Internet Technology with Security), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

2001 - 2006
BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi Vietnam

Professional Services

ASSOCIATE JOURNAL EDITOR
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
• Frontiers in Human-Media Interaction (Computer Science).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER
• The 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. York, UK. (INTERACT 2023)
• ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Hamburg, Germany. (CHI 2023)
• The 18th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Bari, Italy. (INTERACT 2021)
• The 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Paphos, Cyprus. (INTERACT 2019)
• 3nd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction. Boulder, Colorado, USA. (MHFI 2018)
• 2nd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. (MHFI 2017)
• ACM Multimedia Conference. CA, USA. (MM 2017)
• 4th Workshop on Affective Brain Computer Interaction. (aBCI 2015)
• 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, São Paulo, Brazil. (ICEC 2013)
• 11th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Tsukuba, Japan. (ICEC 2012)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBER
• CHI 2016 Workshop on “Touch, Taste, & Smell User Interfaces: The Future of Multisensory HCI”.

CONFERENCE REVIEWING
CHI, UIST, ICMI, DIS, INTERACT, TEI, MM, OzCHI, MobileHCI, UbiComp, ICEC, EICS, 3DUI

JOURNAL REVIEWING
ToCHI, IJHCS, Quality and User Experience, Interacting with Computers

STUDENT VOLUNTEERING
• CHI: 2014.
• SIGGRAPH Asia: 2013.

Training Courses & Certificates

• Starting to Teach - University of Sussex
• Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• MRI Safety Training - CRICBRistol
• First Aid for Appointed Person - British Red Cross
• SPM course on using Statistical Parametric Mapping - Welcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Honors & Awards

• Best demo award (voted by audience) at ISS 2017.
• Honorable mention paper award (top 5% submissions) at ACE 2013.
• Best paper award (top 1% submissions) at CHI 2012.
• Second prize award at the “Student research contest” at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology 2006.
• Commendation awards for having excellent achievement in academic year 2004, 2005 at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology.