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Personal information

Family name, first name: Nguyen, Phu
Sex: Male
Nationality: Norwegian, Vietnamese

Profile summary

Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF developing tools and methodologies for software development and operation of intelligent and trustworthy systems spanning IoT, edge, and cloud continuum, with a particular focus on sustainability.
Strong volunteer experiences in different social/professional organisations in different countries.

Competence and research areas

AI-driven engineering
Digital twin engineering
Internet of Things
Edge computing
Cloud native systems
Microservices
Data sovereignty and data spaces
DevOps
Security by design

Higher education

2015: PhD in Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2010: Master of Computer Science and Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
2006: Bachelor of Computer Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Positions

2022-now: Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF, Norway
2018-2022: Research Scientist, SINTEF, Norway
2015-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
2011-2015: PhD candidate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2011: Lecturer, FPT University and Aptech Computer Education, Vietnam
2006-2008: Software Engineer, FSoft & IBM Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

Project management experience

2025-2028: SECASSURED - Security Assurance-driven AI-based Security Services for Trustworthy Security Engineering from Left to Right. Role: SINTEF project contact.
2024-2027: REED - Responsive and reconfigurable value network for the manufacture of bulky parts. Role: SINTEF project contact.
2026-2028: BAEREL - Sustainable and circular electronic products and production value chains. Role: Project contributor.
2026-2030: Norwegian Centre on AI for Decisions - aiD. Role: Project contributor in Work Package 3 (WP3). Research center aiD will help our society make the best use of AI by improving the decisions we take every day.
2023-2026: TechDebtOps - Data-driven continuous management of technical debts for sustainable software development. Role: Project coordinator and internal project manager for the SINTEF team. Funding: Innovation Project for Industry (IPN), Research Council of Norway.
2022-2025: DYNABIC - Dynamic business continuity of critical infrastructures on top of adaptive multi-level cybersecurity. Role: Task leader. Funding: Horizon Europe.
2020-2024: Dat4.Zero - Data Reliability and Digitally-enhanced Quality Management for Zero Defect Manufacturing in Smart Factories and Ecosystems. Role: Internal project manager for the SINTEF team. Funding: EU H2020.
2020-2023: InterQ - Interlinked Process, Product and Data Quality framework for Zero-Defects Manufacturing. Role: Task leader. Funding: EU H2020.
2019-2020: Pilot-T ASAM - Message Services for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). Role: Internal project manager at SINTEF. Funding: Research Council of Norway.
2018-2020: ENACT - Development, Operation, and Quality Assurance of Trustworthy Smart IoT Systems. Role: Task leader. Funding: EU H2020.
2018-2020: Cirrus - Custom Code for Multi-tenant Cloud Computing. Role: Task leader. Funding: Innovation Project for Industry (IPN), Research Council of Norway.
2015-2017: U-Test - Testing Cyber Physical Systems under Uncertainty. Role: Postdoc. Funding: EU H2020.
2011-2015: MITER - Modeling, Composing, and Testing of Security Concerns. Role: PhD candidate. Funding: FNR CORE project funded by the National Research Fund of Luxembourg.

Experience from national and international collaboration

2021-2022: OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA). Role: Technical Committee member in ad hoc workgroup focused on IoT/Edge/Fog.
2016-now: Active member in Oslo Software Architecture (OSWA), Green Software - Oslo, AWS User Group Oslo (Norway), and Tekna.

Other experience and merits

Secretary (2024-now), Viet Professionals in Norway (VPN). I am a founding member of Viet Professionals in Norway (VPN), a network to share experiences for the professional development of our members, and increase collaboration to bring more added value to the community.
Secretary General (2019-now), The Organization of Vietnamese Families in Oslo and the surrounding areas. I organise activities for the organisation of Vietnamese families in Oslo and nearby. We focus on projects for children and families, preserving, honoring, and promoting Vietnamese cultural values, integration with Norwegian society, and cooperation between Vietnam and Norway for sustainable development.
Vice President of Education (2016-2018), Oslo Toastmasters: Active member of Toastmasters International since 2013. During this term, contributions helped Oslo Toastmasters achieve the highest-ranking club title based on member development. The Vice President of Education role covered planning, organising, and directing the education programme, scheduling speeches and projects, and supporting members with education awards, contests, and mentoring.
Secretary (2018-2019), Oslo Toastmasters.
University Council member (2013-2015), University of Luxembourg.
Committee member (2013-2015), Luxembourg Young Researchers Association (LuxDoc).
First prize, LuxDoc Science Slam 2014, Luxembourg.
Certificate for contributions to the Sixth IEEE International Conference ICST 2013, Luxembourg.
Huygens Talent Scholarship for MSc studies at Eindhoven University of Technology (2008-2010).
Award for dedication and teamwork in the ibm.com project (2007).

Co-supervision of students

2023-now: 6 master students/interns, 1 PhD student, 8 master thesis supervisions
2022-2023: 1 PhD student, 1 visiting PhD student, 6 master thesis supervisions
2021-2022: 3 master thesis supervisions, University of Oslo, Norway
2019-2020: 3 master thesis supervisions, University of Oslo, Norway
2016-2017: 1 master thesis supervision, University of Oslo, Norway

Transferable skills courses

Certificates of Communicator and Leader by Toastmasters International.
Mandatory and advanced courses at SINTEF, including Project Management in SINTEF and rhetoric training.
Additional training in lecturing and teaching, presentation skills, leading and planning, good scientific practice, project management, scientific writing, time and self-management, proposal writing, intercultural communication, entrepreneurship, media interview training, and poster presentation.
Courses provided by the Research Council of Norway.
Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development, University of Michigan via Coursera.

Invited talks and lectures (selected)

[Keynote talk, 2023] “MDS4IoT: Access Control for Edge-based Data Sharing and towards Security Orchestration”, The 3rd International Workshop on MDE for Smart IoT Systems.
[Invited lecture, 2023] University of Oslo: “Enabling Deep Customization for Multi-tenant SaaS, Migration and towards Controlling Tech Debts”, ITLED4340.
[Invited lecture, 2022] University of Oslo: Cloud-native microservices for ITLED4340 - Development and maintenance of complex software systems.
[Invited talk, 2021] “Using Microservices: Customization on Cloud, Shout-out to Tech Debts, and DevOps Enactment for IoT”, DnB Architect Summit.
[Invited lecture, 2021] University of Oslo: Microservices, cloud adoption, and software-as-a-service for ITLED4340.
[Keynote talk, 2020] “Edge-to-Cloud orchestration: a case study of building a scalable Cooperative-Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS)”, First International Workshop on Building Software Services in Smart City through Edge-to-Cloud orchestration (3SCity-E2C).
[Interview, 2020] “Soon you can tailor IT solutions in the cloud as well” - Gemini.no article
[Invited lecture, 2019] “Bridge the gap from Design to Operation of Trustworthy Smart IoT Systems with Tools’ support”, Summer School on Future Energy Information Networks, Berlin, Germany.
[Invited talk, 2019] “Edge computing vs cloud computing: Combining the cloud with smart devices, IoT and autonomous systems”, organised by ITS Norway and Tekna Big Data.
[Invited talk, 2018] “Advances in genetic engineering and the future of humans”, SINTEF public seminar.
[Invited lecture, 2018] Summer School on Future Energy Information Networks, Oslo.

Research service

Reviewer for leading software engineering journals, including Software and Systems Modeling, Information and Software Technology, Software: Practice and Experience, IEEE Software, Empirical Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Reviewer and panel leader for evaluating research proposals in the DSTrain Postdoctoral Programme, University of Oslo (2024), funded in part by Horizon Europe MSCA COFUND.
Co-founder and Chair of the International Workshop series on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems (SEA4DQ), 2021-2024: SEA4DQ website
Programme committee roles across venues including ESOCC 2025, IFP-IoT 2024, SecAssure 2024/2023/2022, ARES 2024/2023, AI4DT&CP 2024, DeMeSSA 2023/2022, CPS4CIP 2023, MeSS 2023, INTUITESTBEDS 2023/2022, SER&IP 2021, ICDCN 2021, A-TEST 2020, and 3SCity-E2C 2020.
Co-organiser and speaker at the workshop “Towards the Future of Trustworthy and Intelligence IoT Applications by DevOps”, co-located with IoT Week 2022 (Dublin).
Co-organiser of the 4ZDM cluster webinar “A showcase of seven projects for zero-defect manufacturing” with approximately 114 participants (April 2022).

Publications

Journal papers (selected)

Nordli, E. T., Haugeland, S. G., Nguyen, P. H., Song, H., and Chauvel, F. “Migrating monoliths to cloud-native microservices for customizable SaaS.” Information and Software Technology 160 (2023): 107230.
Isaja, M., Nguyen, P., Goknil, A., Sen, S., Husom, E. J., Tverdal, S., Anand, A. et al. “A blockchain-based framework for trusted quality data sharing towards zero-defect manufacturing.” Computers in Industry 146 (2023): 103853.
Sen, S., Husom, E. J., Goknil, A., Tverdal, S., and Nguyen, P. “Uncertainty-aware Virtual Sensors for Cyber-Physical Systems.” IEEE Software (2023).
Nguyen, P. H., Sen, S., Bretones-Cassoli, B., Jourdan, N., and Magnanini, M. C. “Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things - SEA4DQ’22 Report.” SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 48, 1 (2023): 108-111.
Sen, S., Husom, E. J., Goknil, A., Politaki, D., Tverdal, S., Nguyen, P., and Jourdan, N. “Virtual sensors for erroneous data repair in manufacturing a machine learning pipeline.” Computers in Industry 149 (2023): 103917.
Goknil, A., Nguyen, P., Sen, S., Politaki, D., Niavis, H., Pedersen, K. J., Suyuthi, A., Anand, A., and Ziegenbein, A. “A Systematic Review of Data Quality in CPS and IoT for Industry 4.0.” ACM Computing Surveys 55, 14s (2023).
Sen, S., Husom, E. J., Goknil, A., Tverdal, S., Nguyen, P., and Mancisidor, I. “Taming data quality in AI-enabled industrial internet of things.” IEEE Software 39, 6 (2022): 35-42.
De Toledo, S. S., Martini, A., Nguyen, P. H., and Sjoberg, D. I. K. “Accumulation and prioritization of Architectural Debt in three companies migrating to microservices.” IEEE Access (2022).
Rajmohan, T., Nguyen, P. H., and Ferry, N. “A decade of research on patterns and architectures for IoT security.” Cybersecurity 5, 1 (2022): 1-29.
Ferry, N., Nguyen, P. H., Song, H., Rios, E., Iturbe, E., Martinez, S., and Rego, A. “Continuous Deployment of Trustworthy Smart IoT Systems.” Journal of Object Technology (2020).
Nguyen, P. H., Ali, S., and Yue, T. “Model-based security engineering for cyber-physical systems: A systematic mapping study.” Information and Software Technology 83 (2017): 116-135.
Nguyen, P. H., Kramer, M., Klein, J., and Le Traon, Y. “An extensive systematic review on the Model-driven Development of secure systems.” Information and Software Technology 68 (2015): 62-81.
Nguyen, P. H., Nain, G., Klein, J., Mouelhi, T., and Le Traon, Y. “Modularity and Dynamic Adaptation of Flexibly Secure Systems: Model-Driven Adaptive Delegation in Access Control Management.” In Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI, LNCS 8400, 2014.

Conference and workshop papers (2019-now)

Nguyen, T., Lam, A. N., Nguyen, P., and Truong, L. “Security Orchestration with Explainability for Digital Twins-based Smart Systems.” COMPSAC (2024).
Husom, E. J., Goknil, A., Tverdal, S., Sen, S., and Nguyen, P. H. “Automated Behavior Labeling for IIoT Data.” IoT Conference (2023).
Husom, E. J., Sen, S., Goknil, A., Tverdal, S., and Nguyen, P. H. “REPTILE: a Tool for Replay-driven Continual Learning in IIoT.” IoT Conference (2023).
Nguyen, P., Dautov, R., Song, H., Rego, A., Iturbe, E., Rios, E., Sagasti, D. et al. “Towards Smarter Security Orchestration and Automatic Response for CPS and IoT.” CloudCom (2023).
Tverdal, S., Goknil, A., Nguyen, P., Husom, E. J., Sen, S., Ruh, J., and Flamigni, F. “Edge-based Data Profiling and Repair as a Service for IoT.” IoT Conference (2023).
Tran, T., Nguyen, P., and Erdogan, G. “A Systematic Review of Secure IoT Data Sharing.” ICISSP (2023).
Nguyen, H.-H., Phung, P. H., Nguyen, P. H., and Truong, H.-L. “Context-driven Policies Enforcement for Edge-based IoT Data Sharing-as-a-Service.” SCC (2022).
Cassoli, B. B., Jourdan, N., Nguyen, P. H., Sen, S., Garcia-Ceja, E., and Metternich, J. “Frameworks for data-driven quality management in cyber-physical systems for manufacturing: A systematic review.” Procedia CIRP 112 (2022): 567-572.
Haugeland, S. G., Nguyen, P. H., Song, H., and Chauvel, F. “Migrating Monoliths to Microservices-based Customizable Multi-tenant Cloud-native Apps.” SEAA (2021).
Erdogan, G., Garcia-Ceja, E., Hugo, A., Nguyen, P. H., and Sen, S. “A Systematic Mapping Study on Approaches for AI-Supported Security Risk Assessment.” COMPSAC (2021).
Nordli, E. T., Nguyen, P. H., Chauvel, F., and Song, H. “Event-Based Customization of Multi-tenant SaaS Using Microservices.” COORDINATION (2020).
Rajmohan, T., Nguyen, P. H., and Ferry, N. “Research Landscape of Patterns and Architectures for IoT Security: A Systematic Review.” SEAA (2020).
Song, H., Nguyen, P. H., and Chauvel, F. “Using microservices to customize multi-tenant SaaS: from intrusive to non-intrusive.” Microservices post-proceedings (2020).
Nguyen, P. H., Song, H., Chauvel, F., Muller, R., Boyar, S., and Levin, E. “Using Microservices for Non-intrusive Customization of Multitenant SaaS.” ESEC/FSE (2019).
Song, H., Nguyen, P. H., Chauvel, F., Glattetre, J., and Schjerpen, T. “Customizing Multi-Tenant SaaS by Microservices: A Reference Architecture.” ICWS (2019).

Digital Twins for Security-based Assurance of Edge-Cloud Software - a Data Platform Approach

Truong, L., and Nguyen, P. (2026). "Digital Twins for Security-based Assurance of Edge-Cloud Software - a Data Platform Approach." 5th International Workshop on Architecting and Engineering Digital Twins.

Unsupervised Learning and Process Analysis for Sensor Data Validation in the IIoT

Husom, E. J., Goknil, A., Mannhardt, F., Tverdal, S., Sen, S., and Nguyen, P. (2026). "Unsupervised Learning and Process Analysis for Sensor Data Validation in the IIoT." ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 26(2), 1-34.

Technical Debt Friction for Maintenance Prioritization: An Industrial Multi-Case Study

Tverdal, S., Nguyen, P., Goknil, A., Martini, A., Borg, M., and Tornhill, A. (2026). "Technical Debt Friction for Maintenance Prioritization: An Industrial Multi-Case Study." arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01850.

AI-driven digital twin-based security orchestration, automation and response for critical infrastructures

Nguyen, P., Rauniyar, A., Bartel, J., Laufer, J., Dalamagkas, C., and Pohl, K. (2026). "AI-driven digital twin-based security orchestration, automation and response for critical infrastructures." Automated Software Engineering 33(2), 61.

Advanced Context-Sensitive Access Management for Edge-Driven IoT Data Sharing as a Service

Nguyen, P., Nguyen, H. H., Phung, P., Truong, H. L., and Cheung, T. (2025). "Advanced Context-Sensitive Access Management for Edge-Driven IoT Data Sharing as a Service." ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

3D-DaVa: Enhancing 3D point cloud data reliability for industrial applications

Videsjorden, A. N., Goknil, A., Sen, S., Husom, E. J., and Nguyen, P. (2025). "3D-DaVa: Enhancing 3D point cloud data reliability for industrial applications." ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality 17(1), 1-28.

Context-driven Edge-based Data Sharing for Industrial IoT Data Spaces

Lam, A. N., Nguyen, P. H., and Ma, X. (2025). "Context-driven Edge-based Data Sharing for Industrial IoT Data Spaces." ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

Developing Multi-Agent LLM Applications Through Continuous Human-LLM Co-Programming

Song, H., Goknil, A., Jiang, X., Melum, E., Joe, H., Gazzotti, C., Frascolla, V., et al. (2025). "Developing Multi-Agent LLM Applications Through Continuous Human-LLM Co-Programming." IEEE/ACM International Conference on AI Engineering.

Knowledge Systematization for Security Orchestration in CPS and IoT Systems

Nguyen, P., Song, H., Dautov, R., Ferry, N., Rego, A., Rios, E., Iturbe, E., Valdes, V., et al. (2025). "Knowledge Systematization for Security Orchestration in CPS and IoT Systems." IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience.

Combining Insights from Multiple Tools to Manage Technical Debt in Industrial C# Projects

Tverdal, S., Nguyen, P., Goknil, A., Martini, A., Astekin, M., and Orucevic, M. (2025). "Combining Insights from Multiple Tools to Manage Technical Debt in Industrial C# Projects." IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution.

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