UoA student won the IEEE VTS Japan Chapter's Young Researcher's Encouragement Award
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Mr. Thanh V. Pham, first year master student of the UoA's Computer Communications Laboratory, won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Japan Chapter's Young Researcher's Encouragement Award in the IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference:VTC2015-Spring (*1) held from 11-14 May 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. The award ceremony was held at the Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde (*2), in Glasgow, Scotland.
The IEEE VTS 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 (*3).
VTC is a semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE VTS, which brought together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideals 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, a branch of VTS in Japan, 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 (*4).
Mr. Thanh V. Pham won the Young Researcher Encouragement Award for his paper entitled "On the MGF-Based Approximation of the Sum of Independent Gamma-Gamma Random Variables", which was highly rated.
Comment from Mr. Thanh V. Pham: "I am very honored to receive the award from Vehicular Technology Society 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 (*5) for his professional guidance, supports and encouragements".
Mr. Thanh V. Pham (Left) and Prof. Anh T. Pham (Right)