Nguyen Minh Duong, PhD
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering program
Biography
Dr. Nguyen Minh Duong received his B.E. degree in Electronic and Telecomunications Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, in 2017, and both his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, in 2022 and 2025, respectively. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as an FPGA Engineer at the R&D Center of Viettel (2017-2019), where he developed electronic warfare systems, and as a DSP Engineer at VinSmart (2019-2020), focusing on the physical layer of 5G communication systems. His current research interests include federated learning, multi-agent systems, meta-learning, multi-task learning, continual learning, representation learning and domain generalization.
He has authored or co-authored in more than 10 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as a reviewer for many top-tier international journals (IEEE TNNLS, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE TMC, IEEE TWC, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TKDE), and conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR). He received several awards, including Top Reviewer of ICML 2022.
- Semantic Communication
- Federated Learning
- Multi-agent Systems
- Meta-learning
- Multi-task Learning
- Continual Learning
- Domain Generalization
- Representation Learning
- Machine Unlearning
- Information Theory
- Deep Learning
- Applications of Machine Learning and Optimization Theory
- Trong-Binh Nguyen*, Minh-Duong Nguyen*, Jin-Sun Park, Quoc-Viet Pham, Won-Joo Hwang, “Federated Domain Generalization with Data-free On-server training via Gradient Matching,” International Conference on Learning Representations, May 2025.
- Minh-Duong Nguyen, Quang-Vinh Do, Zhaohui Yang, Quoc-Viet Pham, Won-Joo Hwang, “Distortion Resilience for Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Sep. 2024.
- Thai-Hoc Vu, Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal, Minh-Duong Nguyen, Nguyen Van Huynh, Sunghwan Kim, Quoc-Viet Pham, “Applications of Generative AI (GAI) for Mobile and Wireless Networking: A Survey”, IEEE Internet of Things, Jan. 2025.
- Minh-Duong Nguyen, Sang-Min Lee, Quoc-Viet Pham, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Won-Joo Hwang, “HCFL: A high compression approach for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning in Very Large-Scale IoT Networks,” Transaction on Mobile Computing, Aug. 2022.
- Minh-Duong Nguyen, Minh Ngoc Luu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Van Duc Nguyen, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N Nguyen, Quoc-Viet Pham, “Energy-Efficient and Real-Time Sensing for Federated Continual Learning via Sample-Driven Control,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025.
- Hoang-Khoi Do*, Minh-Duong Nguyen*, Tien-Hoa Nguyen, Nguyen H. Tran, Tran Thanh Long, Quoc-Viet Pham, “Rethinking generalization in Large batch training for neural networks with LARS,” IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 2024.
- Minh-Duong Nguyen, Le Nam Khanh, Khoi Hoang Do, Nguyen H. Tran, Van Duc Nguyen, Zhaohui Yang, Trinh Van Chien, “Which layer should undergo personalization in Federated Learning?,” IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2025.
- Minh-Duong Nguyen, Quoc-Viet Pham, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Tran Thanh Long, Won-Joo Hwang, “Towards scalable and non-IID robust Hierarchical Federated Learning via Label-driven Knowledge Aggregator,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025.
- Tung Tran, Dung Dao, Minh-Duong Nguyen, Quoc-Viet Pham, B O’Sullivan, Hoang D. Nguyen, “Demystifying LLM-based Multi-Agent Collaboration,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Mar. 2025.
- Hoang-Khoi Do, Minh-Duong Nguyen, Nguyen H. Tran, Viet-Dung Pham, “PAT: Pixel-wise Adaptive Training for Long-tailed Segmentation,” CFAgentic@ICML2025, 2025.
- 2025: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pusan National University.
- 2022: M.E. in Computer Science, Pusan National University.
- 2017: B.E. in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST).
- 2022 Top Reviewer Award, ICML 2022.
- 2024 PNU Star, Pusan National University.
- 2021 Scholarship for merit students, Pusan National University.
- 2022 Scholarship for merit students, Pusan National University.
- 2023 Scholarship for merit students, Pusan National University.
- 2022 Best Conference Paper Award, IEEE ATC 2022.
- 2022 Best Conference Paper Award, KMMS 2022.
- 2023 Best Conference Paper Award, JKCCS 2023.
- 2024 Best Conference Paper Award, JKCCS 2024.
- 2025 Student Travel Grant Award, ICLR 2025.
