Grants and Awards

NVIDIA Academic Grant Programme for Researchers, 2026 – 2027
Hardware: NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 GPU Cards and Jetson AGX Orin™ Developer Kits
Project: Quantum AI-native 6G Physical Layer Optimisation

European Innovation Council CHIST-ERA (€914,624), Sep. 2025 – Aug. 2028
Project Coordinator
Consortium: TCD (Ireland), Uni.lu (Luxembourg), CCU (Taiwan), KU (Türkiye)
Project: SHIELD: Reliable Distributed Learning and Smart Contract assisted Digital Ecosystems

HORIZON MSCA Staff Exchange (SE) (€1,545,600), Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2028
Principal Investigator (TCD), Project 101182933
Website: ensure-6g.eu, LinkedIn, YouTube, X
Project: ENSURE-6G: Evolution in Security and Privacy for 6G Networks

CKDelta (€865,000), 2025 – 2029
Co-Investigator and PhD Supervisor (PI: Prof. Gregory O'Hare)
Project: CKDelta-Trinity Partnership on AI Research in Action (predictive maintenance and early warning systems)

Higher Education Research Equipment Grant (HEREG) (€99,254)
Principal Investigator (TCD Research Boost Programme)
Project: Guaranteeing the Right of Data Forgotten with Generative AI

Enterprise Ireland Horizon Europe Coordinator Support Grant (€12,429), Aug. 2024 – Aug. 2026
Principal Investigator, Project CS20242235
Project: Translatable Learning for Hyperconnected Systems

Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VINIF) (6,000,000,000 VND), 3 years
Key Member, Project VINIF.2024.DA051 (PI: Prof. Duc Van Nguyen)
Project: Development of an AUV using SONAR Technology for Supporting Underwater Surveillance and Measuring Marine Environmental Parameters

VinUni Seed Grant Program AY25-26, Jan. 2026 – Jul. 2027
Key Member and Academic Supervisor (PI: Dr. Duong Minh Nguyen)
Project: Towards Communication and Computation Efficient Federated Continual Learning Approach for Medical Image Analysis

Enterprise Ireland ERC Funding Support (€15,982), Apr. 2023 – Apr. 2025
Principal Investigator, Project EC20231518
Project: Generalized Knowledge Abstraction for Data Reconstruction and Lifelong Learning

Vietnam NAFOSTED Basic Science and Research, 2024 – 2025
Key Member, Project 102.02-2023.06
Project: Improving Efficiency of Drone Surveillance Systems using Deep Learning

Nazarbayev University FDCRGP Grant ($136,000), Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2024
Co-Investigator, Grant 11022021FD2925
Project: Edge-assisted Activity Recognition using Skeletal Representation and Deep Learning for Video Surveillance

NRF Basic Science and Research (500,000,000 KRW), Feb. 2019 – Feb. 2024
Principal Investigator, Grant NRF-2019R1C1C1006143
Project: Privacy Enhancing Connected Cars in 5G and Beyond

Brain Korea 21 PLUS (BK21 Plus) (549,825,000 KRW/year), Feb. 2020 – Feb. 2023
Key Member, Korean Southeast Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution Leader Education
Pusan National University

NRF Basic Science and Research (100,000,000 KRW/year, up to 5 years), Feb. 2019 – Feb. 2022
Key Member, Grant NRF-2019R1I1A3A01060518
Project: Edge Computing as an Aide in the 5G Ecosystem: Joint 4C Framework and Its Applications

NRF Korea-Australia Research Promotion (25,000,000 KRW), 2018 – 2019
Key Member, Grant NRF-2018K2A9A1A01090540
Project: Low Overhead Channel Access for 5G Mobile Communications in Large-Scale IoT Networks