Phuong Nam. Tran

I am currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) – Radio Technologies, University of Oulu, Finland, since January 2025. My main supervisor is Markku Juntti, with Nhan Nguyen as my co-supervisor. I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow in the EXACT-6G project, funded by the MSCA Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) program.

Before joining the University of Oulu, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) under the guidance of Zehui Xiong. I completed my Master’s degree in 2024 at Chung-Ang University (CAU), South Korea, under the supervision of Sungrae Cho, with close collaboration from Nhu-Ngoc Dao. I received my Bachelor’s degree in 2020 from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam.

My research focuses on machine learning for wireless communications, developing scalable and low-complexity solutions for cell-free massive MIMO and integrated sensing and communication using deep reinforcement learning, deep unfolding, and graph neural networks.

news

Jul 31, 2026	My paper has been accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2026!
Mar 03, 2026	Our paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking!
Jan 19, 2026	My paper has been accepted to IEEE ICC 2026 conference!
Jul 16, 2025	My paper has been accepted at the Asilomar 2025 Conference!
Apr 08, 2025	Our paper has been accepted for publication in Computer Networks journal!
Jan 15, 2025	I have joined the University of Oulu as a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communications – Radio Technologies. Excited to be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the EXACT-6G Doctoral Network!

selected publications

GLOBECOM

Deep-Unfolded Accelerated Projected Gradient for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Phuong Nam Tran, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Hien Quoc Ngo, and 1 more author

In GLOBECOM 2026-2026 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{phuong2026globecom,
  title = {Deep-Unfolded Accelerated Projected Gradient for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Massive MIMO},
  author = {Tran, Phuong Nam and Nguyen, Nhan Thanh and Ngo, Hien Quoc and Juntti, Markku},
  booktitle = {GLOBECOM 2026-2026 IEEE Global Communications Conference},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03237},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ICC

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Phuong Nam Tran, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Hien Quoc Ngo, and 1 more author

In ICC 2026-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2026

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{tran2026deep,
  title = {Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation in Cell-Free Massive MIMO},
  author = {Tran, Phuong Nam and Nguyen, Nhan Thanh and Ngo, Hien Quoc and Juntti, Markku},
  booktitle = {ICC 2026-IEEE International Conference on Communications},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC59461.2026.11586919},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13934},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

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