Associate Professor Hung Nguyen

Associate Professor/Reader

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I am an associate professor in the school of computer and mathematical sciences and the leader of the Information warfare and advanced cyber theme within the Defence trailblazer, the University of Adelaide.

I'm leading a research group on Cyber-AI, applying new advances in AI to solve problems in network fragility and security. We focus on developing autonomous and provable cyber defensive solutions. This means building and configuring systems that are secure by design and training trustworthy AI agents to help defend networked systems. By employing tools from graph theory, game theory and AI/ML we are able to develop practical solutions that help human operators deal with the complexity, fast-paced and deceptive nature of the cyber environments.

For most recent updates to my work (especially code, data and papers), please visit https://hxnguyen.github.io.

(27/07/2024): I'm looking to recruit 4 research fellows to work on projects using abstract algebra and machine learning to solve cybersecurity problems. Please get in touch with me directly with your CV if interested.

(01/12/2023): We have recently been awarded a 2.5-year grant for provable network security. We are looking for 2 research fellows and one research engineer to join this exciting project. Please contact me if you would like to know more.

Short Bio: A/Prof Hung Nguyen is the Cyber lead for the Defence trailblazer (the University of Adelaide and UNSW). He has an excellent track record in working with Industry and in developing academia-industry collaborations. Over the last 15 years, he has been leading more than 15 successful projects delivering solutions in network security, modelling and simulation of networked systems for Defence and Industry. Outside of academia, he has worked both in start-ups (Telari); consulting to leading telecom and solution providers such as Telstra, CSL, AT&T and CISCO; and providing security and modelling solutions for the Australian Defence Force and Cybersecurity SMEs. He has published more than 80 publications on these topics at prestigious international journals and conferences.

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Since 2009, I have been developing autonomous and provable techniques for securing the information environment. This means building and configuring systems that are secure by design, not just addressing problems when they strike. By leveraging tools from graph theory, game theory and AI/ML we build practical solutions that help human operators deal with the complexity, fast-paced and deceptive nature of the cyber environments. Our research program is supported by multiple grants from Defence and the Australian Research Council - current projects are shown below.

Current Projects

For details of these projects, please contact me directly.

My paper on network auto-configuration in 2010 started the Autonetkit software (ANK). ANK is currently being used as the auto-configuration tool for the Cisco VIRL simulation and emulation environment. See for example here.

The Internet Topology Zoo that I helped build is widely used in all areas of networking research and development worldwide and has been cited more than 1200 times.

My tomography papers were nominated for awards at major networking conferences.

Find out more about my research publications at my Google scholar page.

Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2021 - ongoing Associate Professor The 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

Applied Mathematics Artificial Intelligence Computer System Security Networking & Telecommunications

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

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

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

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Nguyen, N., Nguyen, D., Kim, J., Rizzo, G., & Nguyen, H. (2024). Decentralized Coordination for Multi-Agent Data Collection in Dynamic Environments. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 1-16. DOI
2024	Dinani, M. A., Holzer, A., Nguyen, H., Marsan, M. A., & Rizzo, G. (2024). A Gossip Learning Approach to Urban Trajectory Nowcasting for Anticipatory RAN Management. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 23(5), 6288-6303. DOI
2024	Nguyen, B. L., Nguyen, D. D., Nguyen, H. X., Ngo, D. T., & Wagner, M. (2024). Multi-Agent Task Assignment in Vehicular Edge Computing: A Regret-Matching Learning-Based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(2), 1527-1539. DOI
2023	Guo, M., Ward, M., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., & Nguyen, H. (2023). Scalable Edge Blocking Algorithms for Defending Active Directory Style Attack Graphs. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, 37(5), 5649-5656. DOI Scopus6
2023	Guo, M., Ward, M., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., & Hung, N. (2023). Scalable Edge Blocking Algorithms for Defending Active Directory Style Attack Graphs. THIRTY-SEVENTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VOL 37 NO 5, abs/2212.04326, 5649-5656.
2023	Nguyen, H., Sun, X., Lu, Q., Zhang, Q., & Li, M. (2023). Bayesian heterogeneous degradation performance modeling with an unknown number of sub-populations. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 39(7), 2686-2705. DOI Scopus2
2023	Phu, A. T., Li, B., Ullah, F., Ul Huque, T., Naha, R., Babar, M. A., & Nguyen, H. (2023). Defending SDN against packet injection attacks using deep learning. Computer Networks, 234, 16 pages. DOI Scopus3
2021	Ranathunga, D., Roughan, M., & Nguyen, H. (2021). Mathematical Reconciliation of Medical Privacy Policies. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 12(1), 1-18. DOI
2021	Sarafraz, M. M., Tran, N. N., Nguyen, H., Fulcheri, L., Burton, R., Wadewitz, P., . . . Hessel, V. (2021). Tri-fold process integration leveraging high- and low-temperature plasmas: From biomass to fertilizers with local energy and for local use. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, 3(2), e10081-1-e10081-21. DOI Scopus15
2021	Arsalaan, A. S., Nguyen, H., Coyle, A., & Fida, M. (2021). Quality of information with minimum requirements for emergency communications. Ad Hoc Networks, 111, 1-14. DOI Scopus8 WoS4
2021	Hessel, V., Tran, N. N., Orandi, S., Asrami, M. R., Goodsite, M. E., & Nguyen, H. (2021). Continuous-Flow Extraction of Adjacent Metals - a Disruptive Economic Window for In-Situ Resource Utilization of Asteroids?. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 60(7), 3368-3388. DOI Scopus15 WoS13 Europe PMC2
2020	Ranathunga, D., Roughan, M., & Nguyen, H. (2020). Verifiable Policy-Defined Networking using Metagraphs. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 19(1), 482-494. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2019	Le, B., Shen, H., Nguyen, H., & Falkner, N. (2019). Improved network community detection using meta-heuristic based label propagation. Applied Intelligence, 49(4), 1451-1466. DOI Scopus16 WoS11
2018	Nguyen, D. D., Nguyen, H. X., & White, L. B. (2018). Evaluating performance of RAT selection algorithms for 5G Hetnets. IEEE Access, 6, 61212-61222. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2017	Ranathunga, D., Nguyen, H., & Roughan, M. (2017). MGtoolkit: a python package for implementing metagraphs. SoftwareX, 6, 91-93. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2017	Nguyen, D., Nguyen, H., & White, L. (2017). Reinforcement learning with network-assisted feedback for heterogeneous RAT selection. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 16(9), 6062-6076. DOI Scopus62 WoS41
2016	Ranathunga, D. P., Roughan, M., Nguyen, H., Kernick, P., & Falkner, N. (2016). Case studies of SCADA firewall configurations and the implications for best practices. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(4), 871-884. DOI Scopus27 WoS15
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 Scopus16 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 Scopus1188 WoS834
-	Goel, D., Ward, M., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., Nguyen, H., & Guo, M. (n.d.). Hardening Active Directory Graphs via Evolutionary Diversity Optimization based Policies. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization. DOI

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
2024	Ngo, H. Q., Guo, M., & Nguyen, H. (2024). Catch Me if You Can: Effective Honeypot Placement in Dynamic AD Attack Graphs. In Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM (pp. 451-460). IEEE. DOI
2024	Guo, M., Li, J., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., & Nguyen, H. (2024). Limited Query Graph Connectivity Test. In M. J. Wooldridge, J. G. Dy, & S. Natarajan (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 38 (pp. 20718-20725). Online: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). DOI
2024	Ngo, H., Guo, M., & Nguyen, H. (2024). Optimizing Cyber Response Time on Temporal Active Directory Networks Using Decoys. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Online: ACM. DOI
2024	Dinani, M. A., Holzer, A., Nguyen, H., Marsan, M. A., & Rizzo, G. (2024). Context-Aware Orchestration of Energy-Efficient Gossip Learning Schemes. In 2024 IEEE 5th World AI IoT Congress, AIIoT 2024 (pp. 192-198). Online: IEEE. DOI
2024	Nguyen, N. L., Falkner, N., & Nguyen, H. (2024). Demo: Synthesizing Realistic Enterprise Active Directory Attack Graphs with ADSynth. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference: Posters and Demos (pp. 107-109). ACM. DOI
2023	Chowdhury, A., & Nguyen, H. (2023). CoZure: Context Free Grammar Co-Pilot Tool for Finding New Lateral Movements in Azure Active Directory. In Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID, 2023) (pp. 426-439). Hong Kong, China: ACM. DOI
2023	Goel, D., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., Nguyen, H., & Guo, M. (2023). Evolving Reinforcement Learning Environment to Minimize Learner's Achievable Reward: An Application on Hardening Active Directory Systems. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '23) (pp. 1348-1356). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus2
2023	Chowdhury, A., Nguyen, H., Ashenden, D., & Pogrebna, G. (2023). POSTER: A Teacher-Student with Human Feedback Model for Human-AI Collaboration in Cybersecurity. In Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1040-1042). Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: ACM. DOI
2023	Zhang, Y., Ward, M., Guo, M., & Nguyen, H. (2023). A Scalable Double Oracle Algorithm for Hardening Large Active Directory Systems. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS, 2023) (pp. 993-1003). Melbourne Victoria, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus4
2023	Ngo, H. Q., Guo, M., & Nguyen, H. (2023). Near Optimal Strategies for Honeypots Placement in Dynamic and Large Active Directory Networks. In N. Agmon, B. An, A. Ricci, & W. Yeoh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, London, United Kingdom, 29 May 2023 - 2 June 2023 Vol. 2023-May (pp. 2517-2519). ACM. DOI Scopus4
2022	Guo, M., Li, J., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., & Nguyen, H. (2022). Practical Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Defending Active Directory Style Attack Graphs. In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2022) Vol. 36 (pp. 9360-9367). virtual online: AAAI Press. DOI Scopus11 WoS2
2022	Goel, D., Ward-Graham, M. H., Neumann, A., Neumann, F., Nguyen, H., & Guo, M. (2022). Defending active directory by combining neural network based dynamic program and evolutionary diversity optimisation. In J. E. Fieldsend, & M. Wagner (Eds.), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'22) Vol. abs/2204.03397 (pp. 1191-1199). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2022	Dinani, M. A., Holzer, A., Nguyen, H., Marsan, M. A., & Rizzo, G. (2022). Vehicle Position Nowcasting with Gossip Learning. In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC Vol. 2022-April (pp. 728-733). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
2022	Nguyen, N., Nguyen, D., Kim, J., Rizzo, G., & Nguyen, H. (2022). Multi-Agent Data Collection in Non-Stationary Environments. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2022 (pp. 120-129). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2021	Dinani, M. A., Holzer, A., Nguyen, H., Marsan, M. A., & Rizzo, G. (2021). Gossip learning of personalized models for vehicle trajectory prediction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW 2021) (pp. 1-7). virtual online: IEEE. DOI Scopus10
2021	Arsalaan, A. S., Nguyen, H., & Fida, M. (2021). Impact of Bushfire Dynamics on the Performance of MANETs. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2021) (pp. 1-4). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
2020	Nguyen, H., Yego, K., & Sioutis, C. (2020). BGP based software defined networks for resilient combat cloud. In Proceedings of the Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MilCIS 2020) (pp. 1-6). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2020	Dinani, M. A., Holzer, A., Nguyen, H., Marsan, M. A., & Rizzo, G. (2020). Poster: Mobile Gossip Learning for Trajectory Prediction. In IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC Vol. 2020-December (pp. 1-2). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2019	Arsalaan, A., Nguyen, H., & Coyle, A. (2019). Evaluating the Performance of QoI Algorithms in Realistic MANETs. In 2018 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, ITNAC 2018 (pp. 101-106). Univ New S Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney, AUSTRALIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2019	Pham, T. T., Nguyen, H., & McMahon, J. (2019). Enabling Heterogeneous 5G Simulations with SDN Adapters. In Springer Proceedings of 14th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities Vol. 309 LNICST (pp. 163-183). Switzerland: Springer. DOI Scopus1
2019	Manzo, G., Otálora, S., Braun, T., Ajmone Marsan, M., Rizzo, G., & Nguyen, H. (2019). DeepFloat: Resource-Efficient Dynamic Management of Vehicular Floating Content. In Proceedings of the 31st International Teletraffic Congress, ITC 2019 (pp. 46-54). online: IEEE. DOI Scopus4
2018	Coyle, A., Nguyen, H., Boyd, P., & Judd, G. (2018). Improving the Performance of Land Tactical Digital Networks Using Measures of Network Capacity. In 2018 Military Communications and Information Systems Conference, MilCIS 2018 - Proceedings (pp. 6 pages). Canberra, AUSTRALIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
2017	Le, B., Nguyen, H., Shen, H., & Falkner, N. (2017). GLFR: a generalized LFR benchmark for testing community detection algorithms. In ICCCN 2017: 2017 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) (pp. 8038442-1-8038442-9). Vancouver: IEEE. DOI Scopus4 WoS1
2016	Nguyen, H., Nguyen, D. D., Pham, T., Hoang, K., & Parsonage, E. (2016). A prototype of policy defined wireless access networks. In Proceedings of the 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2016) (pp. 101-106). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2016	Nguyen, H., Webb, M., & Naguleswaran, S. (2016). Achieving policy defined networking for military operations. In Proceedings of the 2016 Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MilCIS) (pp. 1-6). Canberra, Australia: IEEE. DOI Scopus3
2016	Nguyen, D. D., Nguyen, H. X., & White, L. B. (2016). Performance of adaptive RAT selection algorithms in 5G heterogeneous wireless networks. In Proceedings of the 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2016) (pp. 1-6). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2016	Nguyen, D., White, L., & Nguyen, H. (2016). Adaptive multiagent reinforcement learning with non-positive regret. In B. Kang, & Q. Bai (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 9992 LNAI (pp. 29-41). Hobart, Tas: Springer. DOI Scopus2
2016	Le, B., Nguyen, H., & Shen, H. (2016). Community detection in networks with less significant community structure. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 10086 LNAI (pp. 65-80). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG. DOI Scopus2
2016	Nguyen, H., & Northcote, B. (2016). User spectral efficiency: combining spectral efficiency with user experience. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communications for all things (pp. 1-6). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: IEEE. DOI Scopus2
2016	Ranathunga, D., Roughan, M., Kernick, P., Falkner, N., Nguyen, H., McClintock, M., & Mihailescu, M. (2016). Verifiable policy-defined networking for security management. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications Vol. 4 (pp. 344-351). Lisbon, Portugal: SCITEPRESS. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2015	Mihailescu, M., Nguyen, H., & Webb, M. (2015). Enhancing wireless communications with software defined networking. In Proceedings of the Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (pp. 1-6). Canberra, ACT, Australia: IEEE. DOI Scopus13 WoS2
2015	Ranathunga, D., Roughan, M., Kernick, P., Falkner, N., & Nguyen, H. (2015). Identifying the missing aspects of the ANSI/ISA best practices for security policy. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical System Security (pp. 37-48). Singapore, Republic of Singapore: ACM. DOI Scopus6
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 Scopus2 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 Scopus6 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 Scopus20 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 Scopus106
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 Scopus66
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

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2018	Tran, Q. D., Tran, N. N., Hessel, V., Shen, S., Nguyen, H., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Guardian Satellite-based Flow-Chemistry System Producing Quantum Dots as Counter Measure to Divert Missile Attack. Poster session presented at the meeting of 18th Australian Space Research Conference. DOI
2016	Nguyen, H., Naguleswaran, S., & Webb, M. (2016). Emergency Communication in Australia: Current Situation and Future Directions. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of The 5th Disaster and Emergency Management Conference. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
2013	Ager, B., Balduzzi, M., Barlet-Ros, P., Carvalho, P., Casas, P., Celeda, P., . . . Xie, L. (2013). Welcome message from the WNM chairs. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN. Sydney, Australia: IEEE. DOI

Report for External Bodies

Year	Citation
2019	Britton, M., & Nguyen, H. (2019). Land C3 Communications Modelling and Simulation: Tranche 1 Scoping Study.
2019	Wang, G., Costa, A., Northcote, B., Nguyen, H., Warner, N., McMahon, J., & Mihailescu, M. (2019). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Vodafone Fiji Capacity Analysis Project Report - 2019.
2019	Wang, G., Warner, N., Costa, A., Northcote, B., Mihailescu, M., McMahon, J., & Nguyen, H. (2019). TEMS™ Capacity Manager IndoSat Capacity Analysis Project Report.
2018	Wang, G., Northcote, B., Costa, A., McMahon, J., Warner, N., Mihailescu, M., & Nguyen, H. (2018). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Vodafone Fiji Capacity Analysis Project Report.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING, Milestone Report #8.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING Milestone Report #7.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING Milestone Report #6.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING Lessons Learnt Report.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING Quarterly Report #2.
2018	Britton, M. S., & Nguyen, H. (2018). BCS(L) NETWORK TRAFFIC MODELLING Quarterly Report #1.
2018	Costa, A., & Hung, N. (2018). Analysis of Uniti Wireless Speed Test Data.
2016	Coyle, A. J., Nguyen, H., & Northcote, B. (2016). Tactical Radio Modelling - Overview Report.
2015	Northcote, B., Warner, N., McMahon, J. J., Coyle, A., Costa, A., Mihailescu, M., . . . Britton, M. (2015). Devil WCDMA network dimensioning 2015 workshop. Telstra.
2015	Northcote, B., Costa, A., McMahon, J. J., Nguyen, H., Oliu, C., & FitzGerald, D. (2015). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Guadalajara Capacity Analysis Project Validation Report Prepared for AT&T Mexico: TEMS™ Capacity Manager Client Capacity Analysis Project Reports. Reston, VA, USA: The University of Adelaide.
2015	Northcote, B., Costa, A., Nguyen, H., & FitzGerald, D. (2015). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Dar Es Salam Capacity Analysis Report Prepared for Airtel Tanzania: TEMS™ Capacity Manager Client Capacity Analysis Project Reports. Reston, VA, USA: The University of Adelaide.
2015	Northcote, B., Costa, A., Nguyen, H., Warner, N., & FitzGerald, D. (2015). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Mandalay Capacity Analysis Report Prepared for Ooredoo Myanmar: TEMS™ Capacity Manager Client Capacity Analysis Project Reports. Reston, VA, USA: The University of Adelaide.
2015	Northcote, B., Costa, A., Nguyen, H., Warner, N., & FitzGerald, D. (2015). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Mandalay Capacity Analysis Project Validation Report Prepared for Ooredoo Myanmar: TEMS™ Capacity Manager Client Capacity Analysis Project Reports. Reston, VA, USA: The University of Adelaide.
2015	Northcote, B., McMahon, J. J., Nguyen, H., Brooks, T., & FitzGerald, D. (2015). TEMS™ Capacity Manager Atlanta Capacity Analysis Report Prepared for AT&T USA: TEMS™ Capacity Manager Client Capacity Analysis Project Reports. Reston, VA, USA: The University of Adelaide.
2014	Nguyen, H., & Costa, A. (2014). SAPN Restoration Analysis Forecast Tool v1.0.
2014	Nguyen, H., & Webb, M. R. (2014). Wireless Mesh and Backhaul Solutions for Responder Check-in Systems.
2014	Northcote, B., Warner, N., McMahon, J. J., Coyle, A., Costa, A., Mihailescu, M., . . . Li, Y. (2014). Devil WCDMA network dimensioning 2014 workshop. Telstra.
2013	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., Costa, A., Mihailescu, M., Nguyen, H., . . . Li, Y. (2013). Devil WCDMA network dimensioning 2013 workshop. Telstra.
2012	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., Costa, A., Mihailescu, M., Nguyen, H., . . . Yates, S. (2012). Devil WCDMA network dimensioning 2012 workshop. Telstra.
2012	Britton, M., Naguleswaran, S., Nguyen, H., Coyle, A., Yates, S., & Mihailescu, M. (2012). FogNet v4.0 User Guide.
2011	Coyle, A., Nguyen, H., Naguleswaran, S., Britton, M., Porter, C., & Webb, M. R. (2011). SANLab Year 3 Report.
2010	Coyle, A., Nguyen, H., Naguleswaran, S., Britton, M., Porter, C., & Webb, M. R. (2010). SANLab Year 2 Report.

Theses

Year	Citation
2018	Nguyen, D. D. (2018). Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Network Selection. (PhD Thesis, The University of Adelaide).
2008	Nguyen, H. (2008). User-level Internet tomography and overlay routing. (PhD Thesis, Thèse École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL).

Working Paper

Year	Citation
2016	Nguyen, D. U. O. N. G., Nguyen, H. U. N. G., & White, L. A. N. G. (2016). Distributed RAT Selection with Enhanced Reinforcement Learning. Technical Report, The University of Adelaide. DOI
2009	Nguyen, H., Denisa, G., Kurant,, M., Argyraki, K., & Thiran, P. (2009). Fundamental Properties of Routing Matrices and Their Implications for Network Tomography. Technical Report, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

Software

Year	Citation
2019	Costa, A., Northcote, B., McMahon, J., Warner, N., Nguyen, H., Mihailescu, M., & Wang, G. (2019). Telstra Devil Mobile Networks Capacity Planning Tool Release 2019 (Version 2019) [software].
2018	Costa, A., Northcote, B., McMahon, J., Warner, N., Mihailescu, M., Nguyen, H., & Wang, G. (2018). Telstra Devil Mobile Networks Capacity Planning Tool Release 2018 (Version 2018) [software].
2017	Costa, A., Northcote, B., Warner, N., McMahon, J. J., Nguyen, H., Mihailescu, M., & Wang, G. (2017). Telstra Devil Mobile Networks Capacity Planning Tool 2017 Release (Version 2017) [Computer Software].
2017	Costa, A., Wang, G., Mihailescu, M., & Nguyen, H. (2017). SAPN ERT Tool - Expected Restoration Time Analytics (Version 2.0) [software]. Adelaide: TRC.
2016	Costa, A., Northcote, B., Warner, N., Mihailescu, M., McMahon, J., Nguyen, H., & Wang, G. (2016). Telstra Devil Mobile Networks Capacity Planning Tool 2016 Release (Version v2016) [software]. Adelaide: -.
2015	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., McMahon, J. J., Mihailescu, M., Costa, A., . . . Britton, M. (2015). TelAri Analytics v2.0 [Computer Software].
2014	Nguyen, H., & Costa, A. (2014). SAPN Restoration Analysis Forecast Tool v1.0 [Computer Software].
2014	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., Yates, S., McMahon, J. J., Mihailescu, M., . . . Li, Y. (2014). TelAri Analytics v1.2 [Computer Software].
2013	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., Yates, S., Mihailescu, M., Costa, A., . . . Li, Y. (2013). TelAri Analytics v1.1 [Computer Software].
2012	Northcote, B., Warner, N., Coyle, A., Yates, S., Mihailescu, M., Costa, A., . . . Li, Y. (2012). TelAri Analytics v1.0 [Computer Software].
2012	Britton, M., Naguleswaran, S., Nguyen, H., Coyle, A., Yates, S., & Mihailescu, M. (2012). FogNet v4.0 [Computer Software].

Over last five years I have been responsible for securing research funding worth over $9M – most if not all
are in the area of networks and security. I am the leading chief investigator and/or technical lead for $8M
of this funding. The grants comprise of 1 Defence trailblazer project, 3 Next Generation Technology Fund
(NGTF), 8 direct Defence research projects, 1 Industry funded project, 1 ARC NISRDG grant, 1 Linkage
grant as the first named chief investigator, and 1 ARC LIEF grant. Three of these projects started in 2024
and six are on-going with a total funding of $5.05M that enables me to build a substantial research group
and research programs. We have made great progress with the projects with significant publications and
capabilities delivered to the customers.

I co-lead (with Prof. Salil Kanhere, UNSW) the Advanced Cyber and IW theme of the Defence Traiblazer - a joint initiative between UoA and UNSW with a total funding of ~$240M (over 4 years, 6 themes).

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
2023	Co-Supervisor	Internet Traffic Matrices	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Eric Parsonage
2023	Principal Supervisor	Dynamic Metagraph Models and their Applications in Active Directory Security	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Nhu Long Nguyen
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	Distributed intelligence in smart satellites	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr James John Cormack
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) -

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

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

Associate Professor Hung Nguyen

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