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A/Prof Le Chung Tran
SMIEEE, Humboldt Fellow

School Coordinator of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

School of 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

A/Prof Le Chung Tran 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 Communications and Transport, Vietnam. Since 2009, he has been with the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has achieved numerous national and overseas awards, including World University Services (WUS) awards (twice), Vietnamese Government’s doctoral scholarship, International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), and the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) postdoctoral fellowship. His research interests include 5G, IoT, 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), digital signal processing for communications.

 

Academic Working Experience

 

» 2006-2008: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Luebeck, Germany under the AvH research fellowship. 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

 

Practical Working Experience

 

» 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:

·       Chief designer for extended wireless (microwave) communication system in Thai Nguyen Province;

·       Designer for the optical fibre communication system in Hung Yen Province, Vietnam.

 

Awards and Honours

 

» 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 SECTE, 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: High distinction & top postgraduate student in Master course in University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam. Third-ranked in the entrance examination in this course.

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1992-1997: 1st-ranked in the Faculty of Electrical & Electronics, UCT, 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.


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1990-1992: Second prize (no 1st 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.