Dr. Doan B. Hoang is a Professor and Head of School of Computing and Communications, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is also the Co-Director of iNEXT – UTS Research Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications and the Director of the Advanced Research in Networking (ARN) Laboratory. Professor Hoang’s research interests include Next Generation Networks (Software Defined and Virtualized, Quality of Service, and Network Security), Cloud Data Protection and Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks for Assistive Healthcare. Professor Doan Hoang received his Bachelor in Electrical Engineering (Honours I) and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Professor Hoang has been actively conducting research in his fields and has published over 200 research papers. Before UTS, he was with Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney. He held various visiting positions: Visiting Professorships at the University of California, Berkeley; Nortel Networks Technology Centre in Santa Clara, USA; the University of Waterloo, Canada; Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain; and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. While on sabbatical at UC Berkeley and Nortel Networks, he participated and led several DARPA-sponsored projects including Openet, Active Networks, DWD-RAM: A Data-Intensive Service-on Demand Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks.
He is currently interested in developing framework/techniques for security and data protection in Cloud Computing environment and quality of service (QoS) of software-defined cloud networks.
He is also into establishing infrastructure for reducing the cost of assistive healthcare systems through advanced sensing/monitoring/control technologies and innovative use of Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Broadband Networks and Systems.
