Professor Hung Nguyen

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2025 - ongoing	Professor	University of Adelaide
  2021 - 2024	Associate Professor	University of Adelaide

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  English	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  Vietnamese	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2004 - 2008	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	PhD

• Research Interests

  Computer System Security Networking & Telecommunications Cybersecurity and privacy Artificial Intelligence

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2013	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2013). Multi-observer privacy-preserving hidden Markov models. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 61(23), 6010-6019. DOI Scopus7 WoS3
  2013	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2013). Rigorous statistical analysis of internet loss measurements. IEEE - ACM Transactions on Networking, 21(3), 734-745. DOI Scopus27 WoS25
  2012	Knight, S., Falkner, N., Nguyen, H., Tune, P., & Roughan, M. (2012). I can see for miles: re-visualizing the internet. IEEE Network, 26(6), 26-32. DOI Scopus17 WoS9
  2012	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2012). Improving hidden Markov model inferences with private data from multiple observers. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 19(10), 696-699. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
  2011	Knight, S., Nguyen, H., Falkner, N., Bowden, R., & Roughan, M. (2011). The internet topology zoo. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 29(9), 1765-1775. DOI Scopus1307 WoS834

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2006	Kurant, M., Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2006). Survey on Dependable IP-over-Fiber Networks. In D. Hutchison, T. Kanade, J. Kittler, J. Kleinberg, A. Kobsa, F. Mattern, . . . G. Weikum (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4028: Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks (Vol. 4028 LNCS, 1 ed., pp. 55-81). Berlin: Springer. DOI Scopus5
  2006	Ducatelle, F., Gambardella, L., Kurant, M., Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2006). Algorithms for Failure Protection in Large IP-over-Fiber and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In J. Kohlas, B. Meyer, & A. Schiper (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4028: Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks (Vol. 4028 LNCS, 1 ed., pp. 231-259). Berlin: Springer. DOI Scopus4
  2005	Mas, C., Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2005). Failure location in WDM networks. In K. Sivalingam, & S. Subramaniam (Eds.), Emerging Optical Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols and Performance (1 ed., pp. 379-399). New York: Springer. DOI Scopus1

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2013	Tune, P., Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2013). Hidden Markov model identifiability via tensors. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2013 (pp. 2299-2303). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
  2013	Knight, S., Nguyen, H., Maennel, O., Phillips, I., Falkner, N., Bush, R., & Roughan, M. (2013). An automated system for emulated network experimentation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2013 (pp. 235-246). USA: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus7 WoS3
  2012	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2012). Multi-observer privacy-preserving hidden Markov models. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2012 (pp. 514-517). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
  2012	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2012). On the identifiability of multi-observer hidden Markov models. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 (pp. 1873-1876). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
  2011	Parsonage, E., Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2011). Absorbing lexicographic products in metarouting. In Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRiPE) 2011 (pp. 1-6). Vancouver, Canada.
  2011	Parsonage, E., Nguyen, H., Bowden, R., Knight, S., Falkner, N., & Roughan, M. (2011). Generalized graph products for network design and analysis. In Proceedings of the 19th EEE International Conference on Network Protocols (pp. 79-88). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus21 WoS4
  2011	Bowden, R., Nguyen, H., Falkner, N., Knight, S., & Roughan, M. (2011). Planarity of data networks. In Proceedings of the 2011 23rd International Teletraffic Congress (pp. 254-261). USA: ITC Press. Scopus8
  2010	Coyle, A., & Nguyen, H. (2010). A frequency control algorithm for a mobile adhoc network. In Proceedings of Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (pp. 1-6). Canberra, ACT.
  2010	Nguyen, H., Roughan, M., Knight, S., Falkner, N., Maennel, O., & Bush, R. (2010). How to build complex, large-scale emulated networks. In Proceedings of TridentCom 2010 Vol. 46 (pp. 1-14). www: ICST. DOI Scopus4
  2010	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2010). Rigorous statistical analysis of internet loss measurements. In ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Special Issue Vol. 38 (pp. 361-362). United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. DOI Scopus6 WoS2
  2010	Ghita, D., Nguyen, H., Kurant, M., Argyraki, K., & Thiran, P. (2010). Netscope: practical network loss tomography. In 2010 Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM (pp. 1-9). San Diego, CA: IEEE. DOI Scopus53
  2009	Nguyen, H., Teixeira, R., Thiran, P., & Diot, C. (2009). Minimizing Probing Cost for Detecting Interface Failures: Algorithms and Scalability Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Conference 2009 (pp. 1-9). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus11
  2008	Nguyen, H., Figueiredo, D., Grossglauser, M., & Thiran, P. (2008). Balanced relay allocation on heterogeneous unstructured overlays. In INFOCOM 2008: The 27th Conference on Computer Communications IEEE (pp. 126-130). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus9
  2008	Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2008). On the correlation of internet packet losses. In Proceeding of the Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (pp. 1-6). CD: IEEE. DOI Scopus6 WoS2
  2007	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2007). The boolean solution to the congested IP link location problem: theory and practice. In IEEE INFOCOM 2007 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 2117-2125). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus111
  2007	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2007). Network loss inference with second order statistics of end-to-end flows. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, San Diego, USA, 24-26 October, 2007 (pp. 227-240). New York: ACM. DOI Scopus71
  2006	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2006). Using end-to-end data to infer lossy links in sensor networks. In IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (pp. 1-12). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus61
  2005	Dousse, O., Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2005). Deux applications de processus ponctuels aux réseaux de communication. In 20th GRESTI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing 2005 (pp. 269-272). Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
  2005	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2005). Binary Versus Analogue Path Monitoring in IP Networks. In Passive and Active Network Measurement: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3431, 6th International Workshop 2005 Proceedings. Vol. 3431 (pp. 97-107). Germany: Springer. DOI Scopus3
  2005	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2005). Failure location in transparent optical networks: The asymmetry between false and missing alarms. In 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 19) 2005. Performance Challenges for Efficient Next generation networks (pp. 991-1000). Beijing, China.
  2004	Nguyen, H., & Thiran, P. (2004). Active Measurement for Multiple Link Failures Diagnosis in IP Networks. In Passive and Active Network Measurement: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3051, Proceedings of the Workshop on Passive and Active Measurements (PAM) Vol. 3015 (pp. 185-194). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. DOI Scopus33
  2004	Nguyen, H., Thiran, P., & Barakat, C. (2004). On the correlation of TCP traffic in backbone networks. In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2004 Proceedings Vol. 5 (pp. 481-484). Online: IEEE. Scopus2
  2001	Nguyen, H., Rajesh, S., & Abbott, D. (2001). Motion detection algorithms using template model. In N. W. Bergmann (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 4591 (pp. 78-90). PO BOX 10 BELLINGHAM WASHINGTON USA: THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus3 WoS2

Highlights of my teaching include

• My student evaluations (SELTs) are consistently extremely high; I have been well above the School, Faculty, and University averages for every question in every semester I have taught.
• I was nominated for a Faculty of SET Excellence in Teaching Award for my lecturing in 2022.

Details of the courses that I developed and taught are given below.

Lecturing

• 2023 Cybersecurity fundamentals (CS3308) 238 students
• 2023 Hot Topics in IoT Security (CS7106 50 students
• 2022 Hot Topics in IoT Security (CS7106 12 students

Course coordination

• 2023 Cybersecurity fundamentals (CS3308) 238 students
• 2023 Parallel and Distributed Computing (CS 3305/3705) 125 students
• 2023 Hot Topics in IoT Security 50 students
• 2023 Applied Privacy course 20 students
• 2022 Hot topics in IoT security 12 students
• 2022 Parallel and distributed computing 108 students

Course development

• 2022: I designed and developed on my own the entire course materials (lectures, workshops, and assignments) for Hot topics in IoT Security
• 2022: I developed the Master level course for Applied Privacy

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2025	Co-Supervisor	Collecting and analysing real-world network topologies for novel algorithm application.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Benjamin Jack Lang
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Understanding and enhancing the robustness of machine learning models for cyber security applications	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Yingxin Xu
  2024	Co-Supervisor	Collaborative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Rohit Gopalan
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Dynamic Metagraph Models and their Applications in Active Directory Security	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Nhu Long Nguyen
  2023	Co-Supervisor	Internet Traffic Matrices	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Eric Parsonage
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Algorithms for the Analysis of Network Robustness	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Yumeng Zhang
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Scalable Hypergame models and solutions for Autonomous Cyber Operations.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Quang Huy Ngo
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Characterising Cyber Environments and Assets using Graph Modelling and Machine Learning	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Ben Luo
  2021	Co-Supervisor	Algorithms and Equilibrium Computation for Defending Active Directory Style Attack Graphs	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Jialiang Li
  2021	Principal Supervisor	Hannan Consistent Countermeasures Against Non-Stationary Adversarial Attacks on Autonomous Cyber Operations	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Nhat Dao Anh Nguyen

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2021 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Analysis of New Methods for Inference in Markov Decision Processes	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Blake Edward Donnelly
  2017 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Quality of Information in Mobile Ad hoc Networks	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ameer Shakayb Arsalaan
  2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Network Selection	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Duong Duc Nguyen
  2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Community Detection in Complex Networks	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ba Dung Le

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2004 - ongoing	Member	IEEE	-
  2004 - ongoing	Member	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	-

• Position: Professor
• Phone: 83136214
• Email: hung.nguyen@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 5
• Org Unit: Computer Science