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HA Q. NGUYEN
[email protected]
Home: Avenue du Galicien 5, CH-1008 Prilly, Switzerland, +41-788617437
Office: BM 4.138, EPFL Station 17, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Web: http://bigwww.epfl.ch/nguyen
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2014
• Thesis: Signal Representations: From Images to Irregular-domain Signals
• Advisor: Minh N. Do
• G.P.A.: 4.0/4.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 2009
• Thesis: Generalizations of Permutation Source Codes
• Advisor: Vivek K Goyal
• G.P.A.: 4.7/5.0
Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Honors Program, June 2005
• G.P.A.: 8.03/10.00
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Image processing Ÿ Computational imaging Ÿ Computer vision and graphics
• Signal processing on graphs Ÿ Data compression Ÿ Sampling theory
AWARDS
• Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP 2014
• Vietnam Education Foundation fellowship, 2007-2009
EMPLOYMENT
Aug. 2014 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biomedical Imaging Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Supervisor: Michael Unser
• Sampling theory for non-decaying signals
• Sparse stochastic processes
Research Assistant
Aug. 2011 – Aug. 2014
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Minh N. Do
• Signal processing on graphs
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• Computational relighting
• Multirate filter design
• Geometrical image representations
• Depth-based image processing
Research Intern
May 2013 – Aug. 2013
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Mentor: Philip A. Chou
• Graph-based compression of human body sequences
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ECE418 Introduction to Image and Video Processing: Spring 2014 (Instructor: Minh N. Do)
• Prepared and graded homework, taught some lab sessions, held office hours
Lecturer
Dec. 2009 – Aug. 2011
Department of Electrical Engineering, International University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Gave lectures, prepared and graded homework and exams, held office hours
• EE050IU Introduction to Computers for Engineers: Spring 2010
• EE088IU Signals and Systems: Fall 2010
• EE123IU Special Topics in Electrical Engineering: Fall 2010
Conducted research
• Depth image-based rendering
• PAPR reduction in OFDM systems
• Intelligent traffic systems
Research Assistant
Aug. 2007 – Sept. 2009
Signal Transformation and Information Representation Group, M.I.T.
Advisor: Vivek K Goyal
• Permutation source coding and frame theory
Junior Researcher
Aug. 2005 – July 2007
Information Technology Institute – Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Supervisor: Dinh Dung
• Mathematical methods for signal and image processing
PUBLICATIONS
Manuscripts
[1] H. Q. Nguyen and M. Unser, " Towards a Sampling Theory for Non-decaying Signals," in
preparation.
[2] H. Q. Nguyen, P. A. Chou, Y. Chen, and M. N. Do, " Compression of Textured Dynamic
Human Body Using Graph Wavelet Transforms," in preparation.
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[3] H. Q. Nguyen and M. N. Do, "Minimum Mean Square Error Estimators for Image Resizing,"
in preparation.
[4] H. Q. Nguyen and M. N. Do, "A New Sufficient Condition for Optimally Sparse Contourlets,"
in preparation.
[5] H. Q. Nguyen and M. N. Do, "Error Analysis for Depth Image-based Rendering: A
Deterministic Approach," in preparation.
Journal Articles
[1] H. Q. Nguyen and M. N. Do, " Downsampling of Signals on Graphs Via Maximum Spanning
Trees," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 182-191, January 2015.
[2] H. Q. Nguyen and M. N. Do, "Inverse Rendering of Lambertian Surfaces Using Subspace
Methods," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 5545-5558,
December 2014.
[3] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Frame Permutation Quantization," Applied
and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 74-97, July 2011.
[4] H. Q. Nguyen, L. R. Varshney, and V. K. Goyal, "Concentric Permutation Source Codes,"
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3154-3164, November 2010.
Conference Papers
[1] H. Q. Nguyen, P. A. Chou, and Y. Chen, "Compression of Human Body Sequences Using
Graph Wavelet Filter Banks," in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 4-9 May, 2014.
(Best Student Paper Award)
[2] H. Q. Nguyen, S. Liu, M. N. Do, "Subspace Methods for Computational Relighting," in
Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Computational Imaging XI Conference, San Francisco,
California, 3-7 February 2013.
[3] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "Frame Permutation Quantization," in
Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Princeton, New Jersey, 17-19 March 2010.
[4] H. Q. Nguyen, V. K. Goyal, and L. R. Varshney, "On Concentric Spherical Codes and
Permutation Codes With Multiple Initial Codewords," in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2009), Seoul, Korea, 28 June - 3 July
2009.
SELECTED COURSEWORK
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Computer Vision Ÿ Interactive Computer Graphics Ÿ Digital Signal Processing II Ÿ Topics in
Image Processing Ÿ Fourier and Wavelet Representations Ÿ Vector Space Signal Processing Ÿ
Random Processes
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Discrete-time Signal Processing Ÿ Principles of Digital Communications I Ÿ Inference and
Information Ÿ Discrete Stochastic Processes Ÿ Transmission of Information (Information
Theory) Ÿ Wavelets, Approximation, and Compression
Hanoi National University of Education
• Linear Programming Ÿ Partial Differential Equations Ÿ Measure Theory Ÿ Probability and
Statistics Ÿ Numerical Analysis
SKILLS
• Programming languages: MATLAB, C/ C++
REFERENCES
Dr. Minh Do, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+1-217-244-4782, [email protected]
Dr. Thomas Huang, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+1-217-244-1638, [email protected]
Dr. Yoram Bresler, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+1-217-244-9660, [email protected]
Dr. Philip Chou, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
+1-425-706-3869, [email protected]
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