Tam N. Vu

Assistant Professor

Director, Mobile and Networked System (MNS) Laboratory

Department of Computer Science

University of Colorado Boulder & UC Denver

1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder, CO 80309





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Outreach Activities


  • 07/2020: Our eBP paper wins SIGMOBILE Research Highlights Award 2020

  • 06/2020: Nhat Pham and Hoang Truong present our WAKE and Painometry papers at MobiSys'20.


  • 06/2020: VP Nguyen joins panelists of Birds of a Feather: Faculty Job Search During Recession at ACM MobiSys 2020


  • 06/2020: Nam Bui wins the Computer Science Departmental Outstanding Research Award, 2019-2020.


  • 06/2020: Anh Nguyen wins the Computer Science Departmental Summer Research Fellowship Award, Spring 2020.

  • 11/2019: Nam Bui and Hoang Truong win the Ralph J. Slutz Student Excellence Award in Computer Science, Fall 2019..

  • 11/2019: Nam Bui and Hoang Truong give presentations at Student Colloquium.


  • 10/2019: Our eBP paper wins Best Paper Award at MobiCom'19.


  • 10/2019: Nam Bui presents his eBP paper at Mobicom'19.




  • 10/2019: Prof. Tam Vu and Nam Bui attend MobiCom'19 in Los Cabos, Mexico.


  • 09/2019: Nhat Pham serves a graduate mentor in the CU's Graduate Peer Mentoring Program.

  • 07/2019: CU Boulder team in NSF iCorp Summer 2019 Cohort - Denver, CO.


  • 06/2019: Prof. Tam Vu and Frederick Thayer give Colloquial talk at Google X on Earable project.


  • 06/2019: Taeho Kim presents a demo of our Earable biosensing platform at MobiSys'19.




  • 04/2019: MNS lab technology competes at New venture Challenges by lab member Frederick Thayer who won a $4500 check.


  • 04/2019: Our demo of the Earable biosensing platform won CU Boulder Get Seed Funding.
  • 04/2019: MNS team showcases Earable demo to Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.


  • 04/2019: Taeho Kim, Nhat Pham, and Frederick Thayer present a demo of our Earable biosensing platform at CU's Atlas Expo Spring 2019 and ITLL's Engineering Projects Expo 2019.




  • 03/2019: VP Nguyen leads MNS lab’s demonstration of the DronePD project (detecting drone presence using radio frequency signal) at the Department of Homeland Security, Washington DC.


  • 03/2019: Meeting with potential licensee of MNS lab’s technology in Kawaguchi, Japan.


  • 03/2019: Anh Nguyen serves as a Committee member in Grace Hopper Celebration 2019.

  • 03/2019: Our In-Ear Sensing System is pressed in The Children's Hospital Colorado Center for Innovation Channel.


  • 03/2019: Anh Nguyen serves as a Committee member in Grace Hopper Celebration 2019.

  • 12/2018: VP Nguyen graduates!


  • 11/2018: Our CapBand paper wins Best Paper Runner-up Award at SenSys'18.

  • 11/2018: Hoang Truong presents his CapBand paper at SenSys'18.


  • 11/2018: Prof. Tam Vu and Hoang Truong attend SenSys'18 in ShenZhen, China.

  • 11/2018: Anh Nguyen wins Honorable Mention Grad Talk about the In-Ear Sensing System at Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing (RMCWiC) 2018.




  • 10/2018: VP Nguyen gives instruction about drone safety for K-12 students and teachers at St. Vrain Valley Schools

  • 08/2018: Prof. Tam Vu served as one of the judges for Startup Wheel Competition.


  • 08/2018: Our LIBs paper wins Research Highlights Award and is published in Communications of the ACM Magazine

  • 02/2018: Anh Nguyen and Nam Bui give a demo of our In-Ear Sensing (iES) and MobileOx (PhO2) System at Center for Innovation Showcase to potential donors at Children's Hospital Colorado.




  • 01/2018: Anh Nguyen serves as a Social media Co-Chair in N2Women Board for a 2-year term (2018 - 2019).

  • 11/2017:Prof. Tam Vu presents our PhO2 project at Sensys'17. Our paper is nominated for Best Paper Award.


  • 10/2017: Nam Bui presents his MobileOx project at the App Contest, Mobicom'17 . .


  • 10/2017: Anh Nguyen organizes a N2Women Meeting at ACM MobiCom 2017.




  • 10/2017: MNS members have fun at Mobicom'17, SnowBird resort, Utah.


  • 10/2017: VP Nguyen organizes ACM S3 workshop with Tianxing Li and Teng Wei at ACM MobiCom in Snowbird, Utah, USA.


  • 09/2017:Prof. Tam Vu gives a talk about Non-invasive Sleep Quality Monitoring with LIBS, an In-ear Sensing System at MIT Media Lab.


  • 09/2017:Prof. Tam Vu has an interview with VTV4 - Vietnamese TV Channel.


  • 07/2017: Anh Nguyen serves as a Technical Program Committee member in ACM MobiCom - S3 Workshop 2017.

  • 08/2017: Anh Nguyen wins the N^2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship Award.

  • 06/2017: VP Nguyen presents his Matthan paper at ACM MobiSys 2017.


  • 06/2017: Prof. Tam Vu, Anh Nguyen, and VP Nguyen attend ACM MobiSys 2017.


  • 06/2017: Anh Nguyen gives a demo of our PaperKey project at Demo Session, ACM MobiSys 2017.


  • 05/2017: Undergraduate team wins Best CS senior design project competition on Capacitive Touch Communication. Team is advised by VP Nguyen and Prof. Tam Vu


  • 05/2017: MNS lab rganized a autonomous car racing competition for Undergraduate Students, part of the Embedded System Course - Denver.


  • 02/2017:Prof. Tam Vu presents our work on In-ear Sensing System at Sensys'16.


  • 12/2016: Our LIBs paper wins SIGMOBILE Research Highlights Award 2016

  • 11/2016: Our LIBs paper wins Best Paper Award at ACM SenSys 2016.


  • 10/2016: VP Nguyen gives a presentation at S3 Workshop and wins Best Paper, ACM MobiCom 2016.

  • 10/2016: Anh Nguyen gives a presentation at S3 Workshop, ACM MobiCom 2016.

  • 10/2016: Retreat team: MNS Lab, Graphic Lab (CU), Ann (CHC), Pei Zhang (CMU), Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers), Haeyoung Noh (CMU).


  • 05/2016: VP Nguyen and Undergraduate team who win College-wide Best Senior Design Project on Capacitive Capband demo


  • 05/2016: VP Nguyen receives graduate CS outstanding computer science student award


  • 09/2014: Anh Nguyen gives a presentation at Broadening Participation Workshop, ACM Ubicomp 2014.