Tran Viet Xuan Phuong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
Visit personal website
Contact
- Expertise:
- Cryptography
- Cybersecurity
- Internet of Things
Dr. Tran is an assistant professor of cybersecurity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Dr. Tran’s research focuses on applied cryptography and cybersecurity. Dr. Tran obtained her master’s degree in information security at JAIST, Japan, in 2012 and her Ph.D. in computer science (cryptography) at the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2016. She conducted her first postdoc at Old Dominion University from 2017-2018 and her research fellowship between CSIRO and the University of Wollongong from 2018-2021. She was a research assistant professor at the School of Cybersecurity of Old Dominion University from 2021-2023. She has conducted several works in the area of applied cryptography, which have been accepted by respectable conferences and journals.
Dr. Tran continuously works on applied cryptography, which serves for secure communications, on data privacy in machine learning/federated learning in the new era of IoT challenges, and on quantum resistance. These works have strengthened her background to comprehend the difference and the challenge to bring the theoretical work to adapt to human beings. She also teaches and brings these crypto mechanisms to equip the security background in her lectures and supervision for students.