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Professor Trung, who is affiliated with Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and Queen’s University Belfast, UK, was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (IEEE COMST) starting January 1, with a two-year term.

Professor Duong Quang Trung became the first Vietnamese to be editor-in-chief of IEEE COMST magazine (Photo: Vinalab).

IEEE COMST is the largest journal among the 336 publications in the IEEE system. Professor Trung is the first Vietnamese to hold this position. The journal has an Impact Factor of 34.4 and a CiteScore (Scopus) of 80.2. According to SCImago (a journal ranking database), IEEE COMST ranks first among nearly 700 journals in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and second among almost 3,000 journals in the broader field of engineering sciences.

Born in 1979 in Hoi An, Quang Nam, Professor Duong Quang Trung graduated in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. He then pursued his master’s degree in South Korea and earned a PhD in Telecommunications Systems from Sweden in 2012.

A renowned scientist in telecommunications and computer engineering, including 5G and 6G networks, Professor Trung has authored more than 550 research papers, including 350 indexed in the ISI database, one of the most prestigious research databases maintained by the U.S. Institute for Scientific Information.

In 2013, he was appointed as a professor at Queen’s University Belfast, part of the UK’s elite Russell Group of universities. He is the only scholar in the UK to have received two prestigious research awards from the Royal Academy of Engineering: the Research Fellowship (2016) and the Research Chair (2020). He also won the Newton Prize for outstanding research from the UK government in 2017 and received Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom, the world’s largest mobile communication conference, in 2016, 2019, and 2022.

Beyond awards, Professor Trung has secured more than USD 40 million in research funding. In 2022 alone, his research team, along with other groups, received £12 million (USD 15.2 million) from the UK government to develop flexible and scalable mobile network technologies beyond 5G and 6G.

In late November 2023, the Canadian government appointed him as a Canada Excellence Research Chair, accompanied by CAD 8 million (USD 5.9 million) in funding to lead research on next-generation wireless mobile technologies.

Stanford University (USA) and Scopus, a prestigious database owned by Elsevier (Netherlands), have recognized Professor Trung as one of the most influential scientists in the field of wireless communications and signal processing.

In 2020, he was among four individuals appointed as Research Chairs by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.

Vietnamese Professor appointed 6G development research Chair in UK Professor Duong Quang Trung will be responsible for managing the research that combines the 6G network with wireless media, data transmission, radar, and images.

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