Cuong Pham

About

Hi! I am currently a 1st-year PhD student at College of Engineering & Computer Science and VinUni-Illinois Smart Healthcare Center, VinUniversity where I conduct research in AIxHealthcare fields. I got B.Eng. at VNU-HCM University of Technology, and M.Eng. at Ritsumeikan University.

Previously, I spent 1.5 years at Danish startup HĀTO to develop AI-based cardiac diagnostics, followed by a year at VNU HCMIU to conduct Brain Computer Interface research on Vietnamese cohorts.

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Research Interests

My current study focus on developing efficient multimodal AI framework for digital phenotype monitoring and assessment of some common neurological and mental health diseases, with a target on low-resource deployment setting, e.g., low and middle-income countries.

I'm also interested in human-based biosignal experiments and analysis associated to different sub-domain studies in neurology, cardiology, and digital remote monitoring.

News

  • [08/2025] We have sucessfully secured 60,000 USD grant from the Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator For Mental Health (NCAMH) 2025, funded by IBRO x Wellcome. I will serve as the Technical Lead and Project Coordinator for this study initiative on mental health interventions in Vietnam.
  • [07/2025] I conduct a short-term visiting research @ School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham (UK).
  • [04/2025] I launched NEURAI project as a Technical Lead, collaborating with VNU HCMIU, RMIT Vietnam, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, and Menthy Clinics to collect a dataset on Vietnamese mental health patients, funded by VISHC.
  • [01/2025] I was awarded 3500 USD research grant from IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
  • [08/2024] I started the CS PhD program @ VinUniversity, advised by Dr. Hieu Pham, and Dr. Huong Ha to conduct part of the project funded by VISHC, title as: "Developing a unified, low-cost, self-care mobile health application for common disease screening and early detection in low-and middle-income countries" [Read more].
  • [11/2023] I started working @ School of Biomedical Engineering, VNU HCMIU, as a Technical Lead for the funded by Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology (KC-4.0-07/19-25).
  • [09/2023] I succesfully defensed my M.E. thesis: "Remote Photoplethysmography Assessment Using Deep Learning" @ GSISE, Ritsumeikan University (Chair: Dr. Ruck Thawonmas; Advisor: Dr. Koji Kashihara).
  • [08/2022] I was awarded 2nd prize in Kyoto Startup Weekend Competition; sponsored by KYOTO Design Lab x Techstars.
  • [06/2022] I joined Scadinavian startup HĀTO x Black VC as a part-time researcher, worked in the multidisciplinary field of cardiology diangostisc analysis, bio-signal processing, database management and AI .
  • [09/2021] I started M.E. course @ Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) with the fully-funded Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship by the Japanese Gonvernment.

Publications

  • [C.2] C. Pham and K. Kashihara (2022, March), A Hybrid Controller for Multiple Drug Infusion in Heart Failure using Convolutional Neural Network. In Proceedings of IEEE LifeTech 2022. [paper] [github]
  • [C.1] Nguyen, M. T. D., Pham, C. Q., Nguyen, H. N., Le, K. Q., & Huynh, L. Q. (2022) A Statistical Approach to Evaluate Beta Response in Motor Imagery-Based Brain-Computer Interface. In IFMBE Proceedings of BME8. [paper]

Conference Talks

  • [12/2024] Development and Evaluation of Multimodal AI Framework for Mental Health Assessment: A Preliminary Study. At the 17th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2024), Bangkok, Thailand.
  • [07/2024] Evaluation of Cue-based Protocol Implementation in Motor Imagery-based Brain-Computer Interface Experiments. At the NeuroCoB Society's Brainconnects (NSNC 2024), Putrajaya, Malaysia.
  • [10/2019] Exercise Physiology: Improving Stationary Bike Training Performance Using Heart Rate Variability. At the International Symposium on Applied Science (ISAS 2019), HCMC, Vietnam.
  • [03/2019] Exercise Physiology: Cardiac Endurance Training for Students by Stationary Bike.. At the South East Asian Technical University Consortium (SEATUC 2019), Hanoi, Vietnam.

Teaching Assistant

  • [Spring 2025] Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures @ CECS, VinUniversity.
  • [Fall 2024] Computer Vision @ CECS, VinUniversity.
  • [Fall 2022] Experiments in Artificial and Natural Intelligence @ CISE, Ritsumeikan University.


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