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Research Grants and Projects 2006-now

 

 

 

 

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Funding Body and Type

Year

33

Project: UGPN-SmartGridAI: An Agentic Digital Twin for Cyber-Resilient Smart Grids and Clean Energy Systems

 

UOW Team: Prof Hoa Dam, A/Prof Le Chung Tran, A/Prof Ashish Agalgaonkar, Dr John Le, and Prof Jun Shen

 

This is one among 6 successful applications out of 28 applications

UGPN Research Collaboration Fund 2026 ($30,000 USD)

Aug 2026-Jul 2027

32

Project: Investment and Innovation Study Tour Vietnam

 

Team: A/Prof Thanh Le, Dr Anne Vo, A/Prof Le Chung Tran, A/Prof Amir Arjomandi, A/Prof Alfredo Paloyo, Ms Farzaneh Askari, and Dr Mehrdad Amirghasemi

 

Australian Government

New Colombo Plan (NCP) Short-Term

2026 NCPST Vietnam 37411

($44,000)

2026

31

Project: Flood-Eye: An AIoT-based Prediction and Decision Support System for Riverine Flood Disaster Mitigation in Semarang City

 

UOW Team: A/Prof Le Chung Tran (Lead), Prof Hoa Dam, Prof Christian Ritz, Prof Son Lam Phung, and Prof. Faisal Hai

 

This is one among two (2) successful applications in Policy/Technology Impact Project Category (11 total successful applications of all categories)

 

[KONEKSI reviewing comments: “Your application underwent a highly competitive process, including two rigorous rounds of review by the KONEKSI Secretariat and the Academic Review Committee. It was selected based on its technical merit, the substantial progress demonstrated during the pilot phase, and your organisation’s capacity to strengthen knowledge partnerships and deliver further impact on Environment, Climate, and Conservation (ECC) issues.”]

 

News on project

·       KONESKI Website

·       LinkedIn

Australia-Indonesia Knowledge Partnership Platform – KONEKSI - – Environment and Climate Change Extension Support

144-CRG-2025-72-UOW

($200,000)

2025-2026

30

Project: FINS – An AI-IoT-powered Fish Identification and Grading Solution

 

Team: A/Prof Le Chung Tran (Lead), Prof Hoa Dam, Prof Son Lam Phung, A/Prof Raad Raad, Prof Christian Ritz, A/Prof Montse Ros, Mr Trung Pham, and Mr Thai Cao.

 

Fishery Research and Development Corporation (FIRC) iAccelerate Activation Scheme – Round 1

($15,000)

2024-2025

29

Project: Alternative Solutions for Editing Subject Content

 

Team: Dr Faisel Tubbal, A/Prof Le Chung Tran.

 

UOW’s L&T Support Project

2024

28

Project: PLAN: Portable Low-cost AI-guided Tool for Assistive Navigation of Vision-impaired People

 

Team: Prof Son Lam Phung, A/Prof Le Chung Tran, Snr. Prof. Willy Susilo, Snr. Prof. Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Dr Hoang Thanh Le, Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive, A/Prof Raad Raad.

 

Australia-Indonesia Knowledge Partnership Platform - KONEKSI

($292,883)

2024-2025

27

Project: The AI Tutor: Enabling 24x7 student support across engineering

 

Team: Dr Sasha Nikolic, Assoc Prof Caz Sandison, Assoc Prof Xiaoping Lu, Dr Dean Cutajar, Dr David Hastie, Dr Brad Stappenbelt, Assoc Prof Neaz Sheikh, Assoc Prof Shuqing Yang, Prof Muhammad Hadi, Prof Son Lam Phung, Assoc Prof Le Chung Tran, Md Rabiul Islam and Assoc Prof Montse Ros

 

News on the project

·       https://ltc.uow.edu.au/hub/page/2024-ltig-recipients

 

UOW’s 2024 Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant (LTIG)

15,000

2024

26

Project: Tide Eye - An AI/IoT-powered Airborne System for Monitoring Water Level and Tidal Floods in North Coast of Central Java

 

UOW Team: A/Prof Le Chung Tran (Lead), Prof. Son Lam Phung, Prof. Hoa Dam, Prof. Christian Ritz, Prof. Faisal Hai, A/Prof. Montse Ros, Prof. Jiangtao Xi, and Prof Farzad Safaei

 

The application has been successful after going through two rigorous and highly competitive technical review rounds with over 600 Expressions of Interest.

 

Highlight video: https://vimeo.com/1014030427

 

Project website: https://tideeye.org/

 

Tide Eye mobile app:

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tide.mobile.prod&pli=1

https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/tideeye/id6478940900

 

News on the development and deployment of the project

·       Indonesia Data and Economic (IDE) Conference 2025

·       Indonesia Data and Economic (IDE) Conference 2025 on LinkedIn

·       KONEKSI Website

·       KONEKSI Round 1 Outcomes

·       UOW Media

·       UOWTV

·       UOW LinkedIn

·       UOW Facebook

·       TEL-U Website

·       Tribunnews, Indonesia

·       Borneonews, Indonesia

·       Youngster, Indonesia

·       Kompas, Indonesia

·       Antaranews, Indonesia

·       RRI, Indonesia

·       Tekno Website, Indonesia

·       Kapol Website, Indonesia

 

Australia-Indonesia Knowledge Partnership Platform – KONEKSI

1447/CRG/2023/15-UOW

($350,000)

2023-2024

25

Project: AI-assisted obstacle detection and guidance system for blind and vision-impaired people

 

UOW Team: A/Prof Le Chung Tran (Lead), Prof. Son Lam Phung, Snr. Prof. A. Bouzerdoum, Dr Jonathan Shemmell, Dr Anne Cox, Dr Theresa Harada, Dr Son Binh Vo (Community Partner, Trans Traffic Survey Ltd.), Mr Nathan Difford, Ms Ly Bui, and Mr Thai Van Cao

 

Highlight videos

 

·       Video 1

·       Video 2

 

News on the project

·       UOW Media

·       UOW Global Challenges Website

 

Global Challenges ($22,500)

2023-2024

24

Multi-modal Satellite-based Vessel Surveillance via Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

 

S. L. Phung, A. Bouzerdoum, W. Susilo, F. H. C. Tivive, L. C. Tran, C. Ritz, R. Raad, S. Oberst (UTS), and B. Halkon (UTS)

 

Link:

 

https://www.spaceresearchnetwork.org.au/round-1-2022-23-pilot-and-seed-funding-outcomes/  

 

NSW Space Research Network (SRN) Research Pilot Project

($147,000)

2022-2023

23

Smart Protocol-Aware UAV Jamming Technique

 

L. C. Tran (Lead CI), S. L. Phung, C. Ritz, S. Bouzerdoum, and J. Li

 

University Pathfinder Award

($1000)

2022

22

D.Start Ignite Innovation Program

L. C. Tran (Team Leader), A. T Le, and S. L. Phung

 

Links:

 

https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/partner-with-us/opportunities/past-opportunities/dstart-ignite

 

CSIRO/DSTG Award

2022

21

L. C. Tran (Lead), H. Dam, S. L. Phung, C. Ritz (Co-Lead), P. Perez, M. Ros, J. Xi, and F. Safaei, “Smart Eye – Airborne and AI-Driven Assessment Solution of Sugarcane”

 

One of four (4) successful applications among nearly 70 applications

 

Highlight video: https://vimeo.com/831857342 

 

News on the development and deployment of the project:

·       CSIRO News [Project Summary]

·       Facebook of Australian Embassy in Hanoi

·        CSIRO News

·       CSIRO News

·       CSIRO News

·       CSIRO Blog

·       VTV1 News Broadcast

·       VTV1 Green Agriculture (Minutes 5:05-7:46)

·       People’s Television

·       LASUCO News

·       Thanh Hoa News

·       LinkedIn

·       Vimeo

CSIRO/DFAT Aus4Innovation Round 3 ($300,000)

2021-2022

20

H. Dam, F. Hai, S. L. Phung, K. Maute, and L. C. Tran, “AI/IoT-powered Dashboard for Environmental Management at Tram Chim National Park”

 

One of four (4) successful applications among nearly 70 applications

 

News on the development and deployment of the project:

·       CSIRO News [Project Summary]

·       Facebook of Australian Embassy in Hanoi

·       CSIRO News

·       CSIRO News

·       CSIRO Blog

·       HCMUT News

·        HCMUT News

 

CSIRO/DFAT Aus4Innovation Round 3 ($250,000)

2021-2022

19

Multi-Antenna Underwater Time-Reversal Positioning

Supervisor: L. C. Tran. Student: N. Prohm

EIS Summer Scholarship

($5000)

2021-2022

18

Research EIS Voucher (REV)

 

L. C. Tran

Research EIS Voucher (REV) ($1,000)

2021

17

Optimizing Autonomous Solar Panel Cleaning via Drones in Future Smart Cities

 

M. Watfa, S. L. Phung, A. Ullah, C. Ritz, R. Gorkin, J. Xi and L. C. Tran

Heriot Watt University/UOW Grant Scheme (HWU/UOW) 2021 Collaborative Research Grant Scheme

($38,000 AED ($13,700 AUD))

2021

16

A novel non-GPS based positioning, navigation and timing solution for reconnaissance missions

 

L. C. Tran, C. Ritz, S. Bouzerdoum, S. L. Phung, X. Huang, E. Dutkiewicz, and D. Franklin

Defence Innovation Network (DIN)

($130,000)

2019-2020

15

Developing UOW-ASEAN University Network for Industry 4.0

 

L. C. Tran, H. Dam, S. L. Phung, and J. Xi

University Internationalisation Committee (UIC)

($18,000)

2019

14

Classification of Sonar Snapshot Images for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle On-board Processing

S. Bouzerdoum, C. Ritz, S. L. Phung, L. C. Tran, A. van Schaik, Y. Guo, L. Hamey, M. Dras, M. Orgun

Defence Innovation Network (DIN)

($124,000)

Aug. 2018 – July 2019

13

Developing Partnerships in ICT Research & Teaching with Universities in Vietnam

H. Dam, L. C. Tran, and S. L. Phung

University Internationalisation Committee (UIC)

($12,000)

2017

12

Performance Enhancement of Wireless Body Area Networks for mHealth Services

 L. C. Tran

EIS 09 Discipline Support ($2,343)

2017

11

Massive multiple-input multiple-output systems for millimetre wave wireless body area networks

L. C. Tran

Humboldt Research Fellowship No: 3.1-AUS/1120905 STP

2015-2016

10

An Innovative Conceptual Design for Smart Transportation Systems

L. C. Tran, L. Phung, N. Huynh, A. Cox, T. Harada, and J. Barthelemy

Global Challenges

Strategic Funding

($7,500)

2015

9

An experimental platform for through-the-wall radar imaging

A. Bouzerdoum, S. L. Phung, J. Xi, R. Lewis, K.-W. Chin, F. H. C. Tivive, L. D. Nghiem, and L. C. Tran

RIBG

($50,000)

2014

8

Efficient interference-cancelling techniques for massive multiple-input multiple-output systems in millimetre wave

L. C. Tran

UOW Small Grant

($8,000)

2014

7

Terrain Analysis Package (TAP) for teaching wireless communications

L. C. Tran

School Laboratory      Internal Grant

($5,000)

2013

6

Implementation of carbon nanotubes in multiple-input multiple-output ultra-wideband communications for wireless body area

networks

L. C. Tran

UOW Small Grant

($8,000)

2012

5

Unitary differential space-time-frequency codes for MB-OFDM UWB wireless communications

L. C. Tran

Informatics Faculty

(Soaring Eagle Project)

2012

4

Novel receiver for multiple-antenna physical network coding TWRNs in correlated fading channels

L. C. Tran

Informatics Faculty

(Soaring Eagle Project)

2012

3

Radiation characteristics of CNT-based ANTs

L. C. Tran

ICTR Summer Scholarship

($5,000)

2012

2

Distributed Space-Time-Frequency Codes for High-Speed Ultra-Wideband Networks Using Virtual MIMOs

L. C. Tran

UOW Small Grant

($8,000)

2010

1

Space-time-frequency processing for ultra-wideband communications

L. C. Tran

Humboldt Post-doctoral Research Fellowship No: 3-VIE/1120905 STP

2006-2008