| Oct 24, 2026 | Our team has multiple research papers accepted for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2027 Annual Meeting, spanning intelligent transportation and traffic safety. Individual paper citations will be added as their proceedings metadata becomes available. |
| Oct 23, 2026 | Our paper “Trustworthy Evaluation of Quantum Message Passing: Isolating Circuit Contributions in Traffic Forecasting” was accepted to the SaTQuML workshop at NeurIPS 2026, with Firas Elhag leading the presentation. |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Two full papers from our team have been accepted at WACV 2027, covering language-driven multi-camera tracking and map-free traffic-conflict anticipation. Camera-ready citation details will be posted when available. |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Two of our papers were accepted at IEEE ITSC 2026: CLIFE: Camera-LiDAR Fusion Framework for Edge-Deployable Roadside VRU Perception and PRISA: Proactive Infrastructure LiDAR Framework for Intersection Safety Assessment. |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Our paper “Pedestrian Crossing Intent Prediction via Psychological Features and Transformer Fusion” appeared at IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026). Dr. Nguyen also served as a Poster Session Chair at the conference in Detroit. |
| Jun 22, 2026 | The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga featured Dr. Nguyen’s research and the technology-transfer work behind UrbisIQ and iCityGuardian in “Behind the research at UTC”. |
| May 01, 2026 | Our paper “MANDO-LLM: Heterogeneous Graph Transformers with Large Language Models for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection” was published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 35, Issue 6, Article 144. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Dr. Nguyen joined the UTC Research Institute at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a Research Assistant Professor, continuing work on graph machine learning, smart transportation, federated learning, and blockchain security. |
| Jun 24, 2024 | “LaMMOn: Language Model Combined Graph Neural Network for Multi-Target Multi-Camera Tracking in Online Scenarios” paper, a collaboration between the L3S Research Center and the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been officially accepted for publication in the Machine Learning journal. |
| May 03, 2024 | On May 3rd, 2024, after three and a half years, Hoang H. Nguyen successfully defended his doctoral thesis and officially completed the doctoral program at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. |
| Nov 16, 2023 | “Inductive and Transductive Link Prediction for Criminal Network Analysis” paper has won the Best Paper Award at the L3S Research Center. “Multi-Vehicle Multi-Camera Tracking With Graph Based Tracklet Features” paper has won the Best Paper Award at the L3S Research Center. |
| May 10, 2023 | “Inductive and Transductive Link Prediction for Criminal Network Analysis” paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational Science. |
| Apr 28, 2023 | “Multi-Vehicle Multi-Camera Tracking With Graph Based Tracklet Features” paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia journal. |
| Mar 07, 2023 | “MANDO-HGT: Heterogeneous Graph Transformers for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection” paper is accepted at the MSR 2023 conference (Main Technical Track). |
| Feb 17, 2023 | “Real-Time Multi-Vehicle Multi-Camera Tracking With Graph-Based Tracklet Features” paper has been accepted for publication in the Transportation Research Record journal. |
| Aug 23, 2022 | “MANDO: Multi-Level Heterogeneous Graph Embeddings for Fine-Grained Detection of Smart Contract Vulnerabilities” paper is accepted at DSAA 2022 (Research Track). |
| Aug 11, 2022 | “MANDO-GURU: Vulnerability Detection for Smart Contract Source Code By Heterogeneous Graph Embeddings” paper is accepted at ESEC/FSE 2022 (Tool Demonstrations Track). |
| Apr 02, 2022 | “SoChainDB: A Database for Storing and Retrieving Blockchain-Powered Social Network Data” paper is accepted at SIGIR 2022 (Resources Track). |
| Oct 21, 2021 | “On the Impact of Dataset Size: A Twitter Classification Case Study” paper is accepted at WI-IAT 2021 (Research Track). |