Nam P. Nguyen PhD Student Computer Science, CISE Department University of Florida Email: nanguyen [AT] cise.ufl.edu

I am from Saigon - Vietnam and my full name in Vietnamese is Nguyễn Phương Nam. I am a third year PhD student in Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), University of Florida and a member of Optima Network Science Lab under the guidance of Professor My T. Thai.
Prior to my PhD, I received my BS and MS both in Applied Mathematics from Vietnam National University (2007) and Ohio University (2009). My current CV (updated May 2012).

My research interests include dynamic complex network problems, such as Non-overlapping and overlapping network community structure, Worm and virus containment, Social networks; Cascading failures; Combinatorial optimization and Approximation Algorithms.

In particular, my current research focuses on designing adaptive algorithms for effectively identify communities in dynamic networks such as mobile or online social networks, as well as their applications in different aspects of networking problems. In addition, I am also interested in effective methods to stop the propagation of virus or worm on large scale dynamic networks, in terms of both approximation and social-based algorithms.

• Book chapter
  1. On Detection of Community Structure in Dyanmic Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Y. Xuan and My T. Thai
     Handbook of Opimization in complex Networks: Commuinication and Social Networks
     M. T. Thai and P. Pardalos (eds), Springer Publisher, 2011, ISBN: 978-1461408567.
• Journal
  1. Evolution of Overlapping Communities in Dynamic Mobile Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Yilin Shen, Thang N. Dinh and My T. Thai
     IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2012 (under review).
  2. Detection and Applications of Community Structures in Dynamic Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Yilin Shen and My T. Thai
     IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2012 (Submitted).
  3. Analyzes of Misinformation Spread Containment in Online Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Guanhua Yan and My T. Thai
     Elsevier Computer Networks - Towards a Science of Cyber Security Issue 2012 (Submitted).
  4. A Trigger Identication Service for Defending Reactive Jammers in WSN
     Ying Xuan, Yilin Shen, Nam P. Nguyen and My T. Thai
     IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2012.
  5. On the Discovery of Critical Nodes and Links for Assessing Network Vulnerability
     Yilin Shen, Nam P. Nguyen, Y. Xuan and My T. Thai
     IEEE Transaction on Networking (TON) 2012 (under revision).
  6. Optimal and Distributed Algorithms for Coverage Hole Healing in Hybrid Sensor Networks
     Dung T. Nguyen, Nam P. Nguyen, My T. Thai and A. Helal
     International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) 2012, Vol. 11, No. 4.
  7. Efficient Multi-Link Failure Localization in All-Optical Networks
     Ying Xuan, Yilin Shen, Nam P. Nguyen and My T. Thai
     IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) 2011 (under revision).
• Conference
  
  1. Containment of Misinformation Spread in Online Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Guanhua Yan, My T. Thai and Stephan Eidenbenz
     The 4th ACM Web Science Conf. (WEBSCI) 2012.
  2. Overlapping Community Structures and Their Detection on Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Dung T. Nguyen and My T. Thai
     The 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Computing (SOCIALCOM) 2011. (AR ~ 14.01%)
  3. Overlapping Communities in Dynamic Networks: Their Detection and Mobile Applications
     Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Sindhura Tokala and My T. Thai
     The 17th Int. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM) 2011. (AR ~ 13.55%)
     Note: In the above link, Lemma 7 is not correct. Please refer to the refined version here [PDF]
  4. Adaptive Algorithms for Detecting Community Structure in Dynamic Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh, Ying Xuan and My T. Thai
     The 30th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2011. (AR ~ 15.96%)
  5. On Optimal Algorithm for Coverage Hole Healing in Hybrid Sensor Networks
     Dung T. Nguyen, Nam. P. Nguyen and M. T. Thai
     The 7th Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conf. (IWCMC) 2011.
  6. Exploiting the Robustness on Power-Law Networks
     Y. Shen, Nam. P. Nguyen and M. T. Thai
     The 17th Int. Computing and Combinatorics Conf. (COCOON) 2011.
  7. A Novel Method for Worm Containment on Dynamic Social Networks
     Nam P. Nguyen, Ying Xuan and My T. Thai
     The 29th Military Communications Conf. (MILCOM) 2010.
  8. A Graph-theoretic Qos-aware Vulnerability Assessment for Network Topologies
     Ying Xuan, Yilin Shen, Nam P. Nguyen and My T. Thai
     The IEEE Global Communications Conf. (GLOBECOM) 2010.
  9. Hiding Facial Information in Color Image
     Nam P. Nguyen, Bao P. The and Quang N. Hoang
     The 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) 2008.

• "Overlapping communities: Their detection and mobile applications". In MOBICOM main conference, Fall 2011.
• "Adaptive Algorithms for Detecting Community Structure in Dynamic Social Networks". In Science Seminar, CCS-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Summer 2011.
• "On Detection of Communities In Dynamic Complex Networks". In The 3rd International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems (DIS), Spring 2011.
• "A Novel Method for Worm Containment on Dynamic Social Networks". In MILCOM, Fall 2010.

• SIGWEB student travel grant (WEBSCI conference), 2012.
• CISE & College of Engineering travel grant, University of Florida, 2011-2012.
  
• MOBICOM conference travel grant, 2011.
• MILCOM conference travel grant, 2010.
• Teaching - Research Assistantship, PhD program, 2009-2012.
• Purdue Big Ten Grad Expo Travel Grant, 2008.
• Teaching - Research Assistantship, MS program, 2008-2009.
• Oddon Valle scholarship (France), 2007.
• UFJ Bank scholarship (Japan), 2007.
• AmCham Vietnam scholarship (USA-Vietnam), 2006.

• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Information Sciences (CCS-3), Cyber Security project, Summer 2011