-= Duong and Thao =-

November 14th, 2006 by duongnt

A pdf version of my resume can be downloaded here

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Duong Nguyen
Org name: Nguyễn Thúc Dương
DOB: 24/12/1979
Address:     33 Moffat Ave
                    Ipswich
                    IP4 3JQ
                    United Kingdom
Email: duongnt (at) yahoo (dot) com
Web: http://www.duongnt.net

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

PhD Qualification, obtained on May 2005 from University of Southampton, UK - BSc on Computer Science, obtained on Nov 2001 from University of Wollongong, Australia
Has been working as a researcher in ISRC, BT, UK since March 2005
Hold one patent and co-authored another patent
Has authored and co-authored 8 conference papers and 5 journal papers
Achieved a number of awards and prizes

EDUCATION

02/02 - 05/05 PhD in Computer Science
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Thesis: A heuristic model for concurrent bilateral negotiations in incomplete information settings
Supervisor: Prof. Nick Jennings
03/99 - 12/01 Bachelor of Computer Science with Distinction
University of Wollongong, Australia
Major in Secure Distributed Systems (GPA 8.7/10)
Supervisor: Prof. Rei Safavi Naini
09/94 - 05/97 High School Certificate
Gifted High School –National University, Vietnam
Major in Information Technology (GPA 8.9/10)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

03/05 – now       Researcher
Intelligent Systems Research Center, British Telecommunications Plc (BT), United Kingdom
•   Development of iService/Kreno
•   Project leader of the KIS project to develop the Web Portal for ISRC
Manager: Simon Thompson
06/02 – 02/05 Teacher assistant, Demonstrator
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Subjects: COMP1004, COMP1003, ELEC1010
Manager: Eric Cooke
06/00 – 11/01 C++ Programmer
Itree software Pty, Ltd, Australia
Writing commercial software for RTA®
Manager: Rod Knight
03/00 – 11/01 Teacher assistant, Lab tutor
University of Wollongong, Australia
Subjects: CSCI111, CSCI201, CSCI204
Manager: Willy Susilo

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer of ICEC 05 - 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce - http://icec.net/
Reviewer of EC-Web 05 - 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - http://www.dexa.org

SKILLS

System analysis and design
Several years of experience on Object Oriented methodologies
Programming
Java, C/C++, SQL, Visual Basic, Delphi
Web design and implementation
HTML, PHP, XML, Javascript, JSP
System and Network management
Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, Oracle 8i

RESEARCH INTERESTS

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2005 Finalist (as a member of Kreno development team)
BCS Machine Intelligence Prize Competition, SGAI, Cambridge, UK
2004 Best paper award
6^th Int. Conf. on Electronic Commerce, Delft, The Netherlands
2002 3 years PhD Research Scholarship
University of Southampton, UK
2001 University Foundation Research and Development Scholarship
Value at A$10,000
1999 - 2001 Various merits and prizes
Top 5 students in the Faculty of Informatics for 3 years consecutive
1999 5^th prize, ACM Programming Contest
Programming contest among universities in Australia and New Zealand
1996 Bronze medal – International Olympic of Informatics
International Programming Contest held in Vezprem, Hungary

PATENTS

T. D. Nguyen, S. G. Thompson, N. Giles, H. Gharib (2005) “Goal Personalisation and refinements based on customer profiles”, patent number A30910.
H. Gharib, S. G. Thompson, T. D. Nguyen, Y. Li (2006) “Recoverability Analysis System for Web Service-based software systems”, agreed by the IPD to be filed in the financial year 2006.

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