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A/Prof Le Chung Tran
SMIEEE, Humboldt Fellow
School
Leadership Team (Academic Integrity Adviser)
Director
of Wireless & IoT (WIT) Laboratory
School of Engineering (specialised on Electrical, Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering)
Faculty
of Engineering and Information Sciences,
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Office: 35.G32
Phone: 3846
Fax:
3236
Email:
lctran {at} uow.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor, Doctor Le Chung Tran
(Humboldt Fellow, WATTLE Fellow, Senior IEEE) received the B. Eng. degree
with the first-class honour and highest distinction, and the M. Eng.
degree with the highest distinction in Vietnam. He received Ph.D. in telecommunications
engineering from University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2006. From 1997
to 2012 he was lecturer at Hanoi University of
Transport and Communications, Vietnam. Since 2009, he has been
with the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. He has achieved
numerous national and international awards, including World University
Services (WUS) awards (twice),
Vietnamese Government's doctoral scholarship, International Postgraduate Research
Scholarship (IPRS), Tuition Fee Waiver, the prestigious Alexander von
Humboldt (AvH)
research fellowships (twice), and the Outstanding Contribution to
Learning and Teaching (OCTAL) award. He has successfully applied for
research and teaching projects with the total funding of A$2.2 million.
He is currently a technical steering committee member of New South Wales
(NSW) Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN). He has coauthored 118
publications, including the Springer book Complex Orthogonal Space-Time
Processing in Wireless Communications, which is hold in 354 worldwide
libraries. He is the director of the Wireless & IoT Laboratory (WIT Lab). He is currently a Technical Steering
Committee member of the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) where
he represents the participation and technical contribution of the
University of Wollongong. He is a fellow of WATTLE (Wollongong Academy
for Tertiary Teaching and Learning Excellency) (2019 - date). He is also
the Associate Editor of the IET Wireless Sensor Systems journal (2021 -
date), Guest Editor of MDPI Sensors (2026-date), Editorial Board member
of Electrical and Electronics: An International Journal (EEIJ) (2016 -
date), and Advisory Board member of the Cambridge Scholar Publishing
(CSP) (2018 - date). He has served as a Guest Editor for several Special
Issues of internationally recognised transactions, including Sensors. He
has also served as a Publicity Co-Chair, Track Chair, Session Chair,
Session Co-Chair, and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of 39 IEEE
conferences. At the University of Wollongong, he has served in many
governance roles, including, but not limited to, School of Engineering
(SOE)'s Leadership Team (Academic Integrity Adviser) (2026-now); member
of UOW’s Non-Traditional Research Outcome Verification Committee
(NTRO-VC) (2026-2028); member of UOW’s Education Policy and Quality
(EPAQ) Subcommittee (2023-2026); UOW’s Student Academic Experience
Subcommittee (SAES) (2021-2022); UOW’s Academic Quality and Standard
Subcommittee (AQSS) (2019-2021); EIS AD EDI’s Champion and SECTE
Coordinator of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) (2020-2025); SECTE
Academic Adviser for international applicants (2016-2025); SECTE's
Academic Program Director (APD) (either main or acting) of Postgraduate
Coursework Degrees (2012-2018); Year Coordinators (3rd and 4th years)
(2009-2011); and External PhD supervisor at University of Technology Sydney
(UTS) (2018-2021). He has coordinated the establishment of the Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU), Credit Transfer Agreement (CTA) and the 2+2 dual
bachelor degree programs with Hanoi University of Science and Technology
(HUST) - one of the top technical universities in Vietnam (https://www.uow.edu.au/study/credit-for-prior-learning/vietnam/hanoi-university-of-science-and-technology-hust/)
- and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He has been
serving as a Quality Assurer for multiple subjects taught in UOW's
offshore campuses (UOWD, ZZU, CCNU) since 2015 to date. His research aims
to develop sustainable, fit-for-purpose, innovative solutions to AIoT-powered and communication/telecommunications
engineering challenges through a blend of conventional and novel concepts
and technologies. His research interests include 5G, AI/IoT, navigation,
localisation, positioning, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems,
ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, space-time-frequency processing for
wireless and mobile communications, cooperative and cognitive
communications, software defined radio (SDR), network coding, wireless
personal area networks (WPANs) and wireless body area networks (WBANs),
and digital signal processing for communications.
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Academic Working Experience
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» 2006-2008:
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Signal
Processing (ISIP), University
of Luebeck, Germany under the Humboldt research fellowship from the
Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation (AvH), Germany. Key roles:
undertaking scientific research projects relating to wireless
communications (Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Space-Time-Frequency Codes
(STFCs), Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)) and Digital Signal
Processing (DSP).
» 2005-2006:
Postdoctoral fellow at the Wireless Technologies Laboratory (WTL),
Faculty of Informatics, UOW, Australia. Key roles: undertaking ARC
(Australian Research Council) and industrial projects relating to
wireless communications (UWB, Block Spread OFDM, Multiband OFDM
(MB-OFDM)) and DSP.
» 2003-2005:
Member of the project led by Prof. Jennifer Seberry and Assoc. Prof.
Tadeusz A. Wysocki, UOW. Project's title ``Space-Time Block Codes Using Orthogonal, Amicable and General
Designs". The project is funded by ARC Discovery-Grant. Key
roles: a team member of the project investigating new structures of
Complex Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) and their applications.
» 2002-2005:
Part-time teaching academic at SECTE, UOW, Australia. Key roles:
teaching, marking, preparing and demonstrating laboratory experiments
(Subjects: ECTE 196 - Internet Technology, 301 - Digital Signal
Processing (DSP), 313 - Electronics, 392 - Wireless Internet, 401 -
Fast Signal Processing Algorithms, and 901 - Fast Signal Processing
Algorithms for Master course).
» 1997-2002: Lecturer at the Faculty of Electronics and
Telecommunications, University of Communication and Transport, Vietnam.
Key roles: teaching the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and final year undergraduates;
supervising the final year students, and doing researches
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Practical Working Experience
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» 2005-2006:
Postdoctor at Wireless Technologies
Laboratory, UOW. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Xiaojing Huang. Completed
industrial project with Agere Systems's
"UWB transceiver development
compliant with the WiMedia standard based on
OFDM".
» 1998: Part-time
engineer for Post &Telecommunications Investment & Construction
Joint-Stock Company (PTIC), Vietnam. Completed several commercial
projects:
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Chief designer for extended wireless
(microwave) communication system in Thai Nguyen Province;
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Designer for the optical fibre
communication system in Hung Yen Province, Vietnam.
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Awards and Honours
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» 2019:
UOW VC Faculty of Engineering and Information Science (EIS) Outstanding
Contribution to Teaching and Learning (OCTAL) award, University of
Wollongong.
» 2015:
Nominated for the Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning
(OCTAL) award, University of Wollongong.
» 2006-2008: Postdoctoral research
fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH)
Foundation, Germany.
» 2005: Doctoral thesis was
selected by UniQuest
for the research commercialisation workshop held in Brisbane.
» 2005: Third award from School of
Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering (SECTE, now
School of Engineering SOE), UOW, for the three-minute postgraduate
presentations.
» 2003-2005: University Postgraduate Award
(UPA)
from UOW for outstanding postgraduate.
» 2003-2005: University Tuition Fee Waiver
from UOW for outstanding postgraduate.
» 2002-2005: Vietnamese Government's
Scholarship for the PhD course.
» 1998-2000: Highest distinction student in
Master course in University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam.
Third-ranked in the entrance examination in this course.
» 1992-1997: 1st-ranked (i.e., highest
distinction) in the Faculty of Electrical & Electronics, UTC, in
every year during the 5-year bachelor course. Excellent bachelor
degree.
» 1997: Third award for students'
scientific research from UCT.
» 1996:
German WUS (World University
Services) scholarship for outstanding university studying results.
» 1994:
German WUS (World University
Services) scholarship for outstanding university studying results.
» 1994:
Qualified for studying in the Netherlands.
» 1994:
3rd-ranked in the whole university in terms of studying
result.
» 1990-1992: Second prize in mathematics
competition for gifted high school students in Hung Yen province,
Vietnam
» 1990-1992:
Third prize in physics competition for gifted high school students in
Hung Yen province, Vietnam.
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