People at COINLab

Mai Le (Lê Thị Mai)

• Adjunct Member, COINLab, Trinity College Dublin

• Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College Cork (UCC)

• Research: resource allocation, wireless AI, XAI, future networks

Duong Minh Nguyen (Nguyễn Minh Dương)

• Adjunct Member, COINLab, Trinity College Dublin

• Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, VinUniversity (VinUni)

• Research: federated learning, continual learning, domain generalization, information theory

Seon-Geun Jeong (정선근)

• Adjunct Member, COINLab, Trinity College Dublin

• Current position: Assistant Professor, Gyeongsang National University (GNU)

• Research: scalable quantum annealing, quantum machine learning, quantum error mitigation, applied quantum computing

Quang Minh Duong (Dương Minh Quang)

• PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Sep. 2025 – Present

• Research: decentralized federated learning and federated unlearning

Shay Seiya McDonnell

• PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Sep. 2025 – Present

• Research: AI research in action, multi-agent systems, collective intelligence

• Co-supervised with Prof. Gregory O'Hare

Linh Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thành Linh)

• PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Sep. 2023 – Present

• Research: data privacy, network economics, incentivization in decentralized federated learning

Hue Thi Dang (Đặng Thị Huế)

• PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Mar. 2024 – Present

• Research: numeric accuracy and reproducibility in deep learning training and inference

• Co-supervised with Prof. Andrea Patane

Haowen Sun (孙浩文)

• PhD Student, Southeast University, Sep. 2021 – Present

• Visiting PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Nov. 2025 – Present

• Research: mobile edge computing, edge AI, applied machine learning

Khai Duc Dang (Đặng Đức Khải)

• Research Assistant, VinUniversity (VinUni), Jan. 2026 – Present

• Research: federated continual learning, federated unlearning, domain generalisation

• Co-supervised with Dr. Duong Minh Nguyen (VinUni)

Jiahui Zhao (赵佳慧)

• PhD Student, Southeast University, Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2026

• Visiting PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2025

• Research: semantic communication, mobile edge computing, edge AI

• Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Purple Mountain Laboratories

Khanh Vinh Tran (Trần Vinh Khánh)

• MSc by Research, University College Cork, Sep. 2025 – Aug. 2026

• Research: design and development of a reliable, high-performance agentic AI platform

• Co-supervised with Prof. Harry Nguyen (UCC)

Tuan Van Tran

• PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Sep. 2023 – Dec. 2025

• Research: collective intelligence, federated learning, machine unlearning

• Moved to another research team

Mengyan Huang (黄梦延)

• PhD Student, Xidian University, Sep. 2021 – Aug. 2025

• Visiting PhD Student, Trinity College Dublin, Oct. 2023 – Nov. 2024

• Research: beamforming, physical layer security, non-terrestrial communications

• Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Henan Polytechnic University, China

Duong Minh Nguyen (Nguyễn Minh Dương)

• PhD Student, Pusan National University, Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2025

• Thesis: Empowering networked semantic communication with knowledge-aided deep channel coding and federated learning

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, VinUniversity, Viet Nam

Vu Thai Hoc (Vũ Thái Học)

• PhD Student, University of Ulsan, Mar. 2021 – Feb. 2025

• Research: performance analysis and network optimization of 6G short-packet communications

• Co-supervised with Prof. Sunghwan Kim

• Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia

Mai Le (Lê Thị Mai)

• PhD Student, Pusan National University, Mar. 2021 – Feb. 2024

• Thesis: Resource allocation optimization in intelligent wireless networks

• MSc, Inje University, Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2021: swarm intelligence for D2D communications with unlicensed spectrum

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Visiting Fellow (TCD) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (UCC), Ireland

Dao Thien Thanh (Đào Thiện Thành)

• PhD Student, Pusan National University, Sep. 2020 – Feb. 2024

• Research: deep learning-based automatic modulation classification

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Lecturer, Phenikaa University, Viet Nam

Sang Min Lee (이상민)

• PhD Student, Pusan National University, Sep. 2020 – Sep. 2023

• Research: communication-efficient FL for massive IoT

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

Nadia Iradukunda

• PhD, Inje University, Sep. 2019 – Aug. 2022

• Research: resource allocation optimization for UAV wireless backhaul 5G networks

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Lecturer, Mount Kenya University, Rwanda

Vo Ta Hoang (Võ Tá Hoàng)

• PhD, Inje University, Sep. 2017 – Feb. 2020

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Lecturer, Thuyloi University, Viet Nam

Hoang Huu Trung (Hoàng Hữu Trung)

• PhD, Inje University, Sep. 2018 – Feb. 2021

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: Lecturer, Hue University, Viet Nam

Nguyen Tien Hoang (Nguyễn Tiến Hoàng)

• MSc, Inje University, Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2019

• Research: game theory for computation offloading in MEC networks

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: QA Project Leader, LG Innotek, Viet Nam

Maurice Nduwayezu

• MSc, Inje University, Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2019

• Research: deep reinforcement learning for computation offloading in NOMA-MEC networks

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang

• Current position: PhD Student, SeoulTech, Korea

Girmay Gebremariam Gebrelibanos

• MSc, Inje University, Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2019

• Research: swarm intelligence for D2D communications with unlicensed spectrum

• Co-supervised with Prof. Won-Joo Hwang