Collective Intelligence and Network AI Lab (COINLab)

Welcome to COINLab, a highly interdisciplinary research lab advancing network AI and collective intelligence for digital ecosystems. Our research focuses on distributed machine learning and optimisation over large-scale networks, addressing fundamental challenges in scalability, heterogeneity, robustness, and trustworthiness of network AI systems, with applications across telecommunications, critical infrastructure, and intelligent services.

COINLab is led by Prof. Viet Quoc Pham at the Trinity School of Computer Science and Statistics, the University of Dublin. Prospective PhD students and postdocs, please see our Openings.

Recent News

  • 11/2026 Dr. Ir. Marcela Tuler de Oliveira from TU Delft will visit us for two weeks under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 10/2026 Our work on path-dependent federated unlearning (PDF) got accepted to the NeurIPS NewInML workshop. Very well done, Linh!

  • 10/2026 Our collaborative work with the UTS team on privacy-peserving image classification in edge computing with homomorphic encryption got accepted to IEEE TMC.

  • 08/2026 Great news! Jiahui successfully passed her PhD viva and is now a Postdoc Researcher at Purple Mountain Laboratories.

  • 08/2026 Prof. Won-Joo Hwang, Prof. Sang-Hwa Chung, and Prof. Jong-Deok Kim from Pusan National University will visit COINLab. Welcome to Trinity!

  • 07/2026 Congratulations, Linh! His PhD work on Right Reward Right Time in Federated Learning was accepted to IEEE TNSE.

  • 07/2026 Dr. Ir. Marcela Tuler de Oliveira from TU Delft will visit us for two weeks under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 07/2026 Linh will visit Montimage (a French SME in cybersecurity) for two months under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 07/2026 Viet will deliver a talk on verifiable federated unlearning at the ENSURE-6G workshop at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

  • 06/2026 Massive congratulations, Shay! His first work on disagreement in multi-agent triage got accepted to PAAMS (ICORE B conference, Italy).

  • 05/2026 Viet will visit Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) for one month under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 04/2026 Our latest work on coopetition (cooperation + competition) in federated learning is now on arXiv. Huge efforts from Linh!

  • 04/2026 Viet delivered an invited talk on federated unlearning at Ulster University on 15 April 2026.

  • 03/2026 Congratulations, Quang! He won the Best Idea award at AI for Ireland Quest for “GPal: Agentic AI Assistant for GPs in Ireland”.

  • 03/2026 Congratulations, Haowen! Our work on AirComp-assisted split federated learning has been accepted to IEEE ICC 2026.

  • 03/2026 Viet will visit Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) for two months under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 02/2026 Congratulations, Duong! Our FOUL work on federated on-server unlearning got accepted to CVPR 2026 (ICORE A* conference, USA).

  • 01/2026 Our work on 6G AI security, funded by our ENSURE-6G project, got accepted to IEEE COMST.

  • 01/2026 Congratulations, Linh! Our work on verifiable federated unlearning (VeriFUL) got accepted to IEEE Internet Computing.

Earlier news

  • 12/2025 We will be presenting our work at IEEE GLOBECOM, Taiwan. Please join us for fruitful discussions and potential collaboration.

  • 11/2025 Haowen Sun joined COINLab as a visiting PhD student. Welcome aboard!

  • 09/2025 Quang Minh Duong and Shay Seiya McDonnell joined COINLab as PhD students. Welcome aboard!

  • 08/2025 Congratulations to Linh and Mai! Our work on GenAI-powered FL and generative diffusion models for THz communications got accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2025.

  • 07/2025 Congratulations to Duong and Tuan on their paper acceptances to ECAI 2025.

  • 07/2025 Viet started his one-month secondment to USJ under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 06/2025 Linh started his three-month secondment to TU Delft under the ENSURE-6G project.

  • 05/2025 Well done, Jiahui! Her work (completed at TCD) on resource allocation in semantic communications has been accepted to IEEE TWC.

  • 05/2025 Congratulations! Duong successfully passed his PhD viva (Pusan National University, Korea).

  • 03/2025 Well done, Tuan and Linh! You passed the confirmation interview and are now PhD candidates.

  • 03/2025 Congratulations, Linh! Our work on critical learning period-aware federated learning has been accepted to IEEE VTC2025-Spring.

  • 03/2025 Congratulations, Tuan! Our work on federated fine-tuning of foundation models has been accepted to MCDC @ ICLR.

  • 01/2025 Congratulations, Duong! Our work on federated domain generalization has been accepted to ICLR 2025 (ICORE A* conference).

  • 01/2025 Congratulations, Jiahui! Our work has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICC 2025 in Montreal, Canada.

  • 01/2025 We started the ENSURE-6G project, a groundbreaking initiative on the evolution of security and privacy for 6G networks. Follow us on LinkedIn.

  • 12/2024 Congratulations! Hoc successfully passed his PhD viva (University of Ulsan, Korea).

  • 11/2024 Farewell party for Mengyan and Jiahui. We wish you all the best with your thesis preparation and PhD defence in 2025.

  • 03/2024 Hue Thi Dang joined COINLab as a PhD student. Welcome!

  • 02/2024 Congratulations! Tuan and his FSGWL team won the first UCC AI Quest.

  • 01/2024 Jiahui Zhao joined COINLab as a visiting PhD student (012024 to 012025).

  • 12/2023 Congratulations! Mai Le and Thanh Thien Dao successfully passed their PhD vivas with the theses “Resource Allocation Optimization in Intelligent Wireless Networks” and “Deep Learning-based Automatic Modulation Classification”.

  • 11/2023 Congratulations! Viet was selected as the winner of the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for EMEA 2023.

  • 10/2023 Mengyan Huang joined COINLab as a visiting PhD student (112023 to 112024).

  • 09/2023 Two PhD students, Tuan Tran and Linh Nguyen, joined COINLab. Congratulations and welcome!

  • 05/2023 Viet received the Enterprise Ireland Coordination Support Award.

  • 05/2023 Mai Le joined COINLab as a visiting PhD student. Welcome aboard!

  • 04/2023 Two fully funded PhD scholarships are available. Please apply and join COINLab.

  • 01/2023 Viet joined SFI CONNECT as an Associate Investigator and SFI ADVANCE CRT as a TCD supervisor.

  • 01/2023 Viet started as Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

Contact

Please feel free to email or drop by the office to contact Prof. Pham. You may consider a call in advance to arrange an appointment is recommended.

  • Prof. Viet Quoc Pham

  • Email: viet.pham@tcd.ie

  • Landline: +353 1 896 8437

  • Office: Room 1.5, 13 Westland Row, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, D02 W272, Ireland