UoA PhD student won the IEEE VTS Japan 2015 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award

Phuc V. Trinh, first year PhD student supervised by Professor Anh T. Pham at the Computer Communications Laboratory, won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Japan 2015 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. The award ceremony was held on Sept. 7, during the 2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Fall)　(*1).

The IEEE VTS (*2) is composed of engineers, scientists, students, and technicians, interested in advancing the theory and practice of electrical engineering as it applies to the areas of Land Transportation, Railroad/Mass Transit, Mobile Communications, Vehicular Electrotechnology Equipment and Systems Land, Airborne and Maritime Mobile Services.

VTC is a semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE VTS, which brought together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference featured world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions.

IEEE VTS Japan Chapter, the branch of VTS in Japan (*3), provides two kinds of award, VTS Japan Best Paper Award, and Young Researcher Encouragement Award, to those papers presented in the VTC conferences and recognized as being highly qualified and novel.

Phuc won the Young Researcher Encouragement Award for his paper entitled "Outage Performance of Dual-Hop AF Relaying Systems with Mixed MMW RF and FSO Links" presented at the IEEE VTC2015-Fall in Boston, USA from Sept. 6-9, 2015.

Comment from Mr. Phuc V. Trinh: "I am very honored to receive the 2015 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Japan Chapter. This award will encourage me to continue doing research in the future. I also would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Pham, whose support, advice and encouragement have been key factors to this achievement."

Mr. Phuc V. Trinh (right) and Prof. Anh T. Pham (left)

*1 VTC2015-Fall

*2 IEEE VTS

*3 IEEE VTS Japan Chapter