Dr Hai Vu

Tel: +61 3 9214 8119
Fax: +61 3 9819 6443
Email: hvu@swin.edu.au

Position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: M.Sc. (Elec), Technical University of Budapest (TUB), Hungary, 1994. Ph.D. (Telecomm.), TUB, Hungary, 1999. Diploma (University Teaching), Melbourne University, 2006.

Members: IEEE Senior member
Others: Master of Science (Network Systems) Coordinator
Faculty Research Higher Degrees coordinator (2005-2008)

Work Experience:

2005 - Present
         Senior Lecturer - Faculty of ICT, Swinburne Univ. of Technology
         Research interests: VoIP, 802.11 MAC Protocol, TCP, Wireless communications, Network Security
2000 - 2005
         Research Fellow - CUBIN, E&E Engineering Department, The University of Melbourne
         Research interests: TCP over Wireless, MAC Protocol, Optical Network Design, OBS, GMPLS
1998 - 2000
         Research Engineer - Siemens Ltd., Development Division, Hungary
         Duties: IP over ATM, QoS, IntServ/DiffServ, SLA Monitoring
1994 - 1998
         R&D Test Engineer - Siemens Ltd., Development Division, Hungary
         Duties: EWSD testing, Software development

Honours and Awards:

First prize and extra prize from Siemens Ltd., Hungary at Students’ Scientific Conference, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, November 1993.
Title: “Synchronization of MODEM based on TMS320 processor”.

EuroSpeech grant with ESCA (European Speech Communication Association) at the 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH’97), September 1997.

Chair Speech Coding Session at the IASTED Signal and Image Processing Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 1996.

Chair sessions at the Australian Telecommunications, Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), Melbourne 2003.

Chair Wireless LAN and AQM Sessions at the ICC conference, Paris, July 2004.

TPC member for GLOBECOM 2004, ATNAC 2003,  ICC 2005 (Optical Networking), ATNAC 2006, ICC 2006, 2007 (Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks )
Reviewer for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Optical Networks Magazine, Optical Express, IEE Comm. Letters, IEEE Comm. Letters.


Current Research Interest:

Wireless communications and networking (protocol, network design, optimisation)
Wireless ad-hoc networks, Sensor networks (routing, handoff, location tracking, energy issues)
WiFi, WiMax QoS and network performance evaluation
MAC protocol (802.11, 802.15, 802.16) performance evaluation
Network Security (VoIP security, Testing network against attacks)
VoIP project (here)


Grants:

FICT Dean's Collaborative Grants (2007-2008), 35K
Swinburne LTPF Funding for Educational Innovation (2007-2008), 30K
ARC Discovery Grant (2005-2007), 90K
Swinburne Research Development Scheme (RDS) Grant (2006-2007), 20K
Melbourne University Research Grant, (2004-2005), 16K
E&E Department  Early Career Researcher Grant, (2003-2004), 10K


Teaching and Supervising:

Applied Queuing Theory (2002-2005) in the Master of Telecommunications Engineering (MTE), E&E Engineering Department, the University of Melbourne
Network Engineering (HET336, S1), 3rd year subject, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology
Communication Information Theory (HET315, S2), 3rd year subject, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology
Design and Development Project (HET550, unit convenor, S1, S2), final year subject, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology
Design and Management of Networks (HET729, unit convenor, S1), postgraduate subject, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology
Research Paper (HET724, unit convenor, S1, S2), postgraduate subject, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology

Past PhD students:

Andrew Zalesky (Melbourne University)
Jun Guo (Melbourne University)
Malka N. Halgamuge (Melbourne University)

Current PhD students:

Dongxia Xu (Melbourne University)
Kewin Stoeckigt (Swinburne Univ. of Technology)
Imrul Hassan (Swinburne Univ. of Technology)