Curriculum Vitae

Education

M.Eng. in Information Processing Systems, Telecom Bretagne, 2016
M.Sc. in Image Processing, Telecom Bretagne, 2016
Ph.D. in Geomatics, Université Laval, 2020
Ph.D. in Signal-Image-Vision, IMT Atlantique, 2020

Work experience

Since Nov. 2023: Researcher at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.
- Team: ERIN/Environmental Sensing and Modelling (ENVISION)
- Projects:
  - GRASS (Gravimetry and Radar Earth observation data ASSimilation into a hydrological model for improving drought prediction in Luxembourg and the Greater Region), FNR BRIDGES 2022-2024
  - SWIFT (Shallow Water modelling and satellite Imagery combination for improving Flood predicTion), ANR PRCI/FNR INTER 2024-2027
  - HERON (Satellite Earth Observation-based technologies supporting community-initiated disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh), FNR LuxAid BRIDGES 2024-2027
- Involved in:
  - FloodDAM-DigitalTwin and IDEAS
  - HYDROS (HYdraulic retrievals from Data assimilation: River Observation with SWOT), TOSCA-SWOT program 2024-2027
  - R&T MNT Hydrocompatible, funded by CNES, 2024-2025
- Finished projects:
  - DestinE_LU, DestinEarth Luxembourg Proof-of-Concept for Management of Natural Disasters (a flooding use case), 2023-2024
Dec. 2020 - Nov. 2023: Researcher at CNRS UMR 5318 CECI/CERFACS, funded by CNES (French Space Agency)
- Team: Climate Modeling and Global Change (GLOBC)
- Projects:
  - FloodDAM (Flood Detection, Alert, and rapid Mapping), SCO (Space Climate Observatory) program 2020-2022.
  - FloodDAM-Digital Twin, SCO program 2022-2024
    - Parallel/twin project at NASA JPL: Integrated Digital Earth Analysis Sytem (IDEAS), ESTO AIST program
  - SWOT-DAHM, TOSCA-SWOT (TOSCA–Terre solide, Océan, Surfaces Continentales et Atmosphère) program 2020-2023.
Oct. - Nov. 2020: Research Assistant at Université Laval (Canada)
- Project: R2Sonic Multispectral Water Column Challenge focusing on the estimation of suspended sediment concentration and grain size in Diamond Creek area, Colorado river, Arizona, USA.
Oct. 2016 - Sep. 2020: Doctoral Researcher at Université Laval (Canada) and IMT Atlantique (France)
- Project:
  - Multisensor data fusion for 3D mosaic construction of scenes (project MOSAIC3D)
  - Large-scale building delineation for flood risk anticipation and assessment (umbrella project ORACLE-2)
- Thesis: A Versatile and Efficient Data Fusion Methodology for Heterogeneous Airborne LiDAR and Optical Imagery Data Acquired Under Unconstrained Conditions [Abstract] [Presentation]
- Supervisors: Prof. Sylvie Daniel (Université Laval), Prof. Jean-Marc Le Caillec (IMT Atlantique)
- PhD thesis defense jury: Prof. Emer. Jean-Paul Haton (Université de Lorraine), Prof. Jocelyn Chanussot (Grenoble Institute of Technology), Prof. Denis Laurendeau (Université Laval), Dr. Frédéric Maussang (IMT Atlantique).
Mar. - Sep. 2016: Engineering Intern at Orange France, Île-de-France, France
- Team: Direction Strategy-Innovation, DTSI/DSI
- Project: Aplications of Machine Learning techniques in Facial Recognition and Developments of cognitive interactions of a robot NAO Pepper
- Supervisors: Cathérine Lemarquis, Ionel Tothezan, and Christian Le Blainvaux (Orange)
- Master’s defense jury: Prof. Valérie Burdin, Prof. François Rousseau, Dr. Didier Guériot (IMT Atlantique). Grade: 17.5/20 (highest).
Mar. - Sep. 2015: Engineering Intern at ECA Robotics, Brest, France
- Project: Sonar mosaic registration for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
- Supervisor: Sébastien Tauvry (ECA)
Sep. 2014 - Mar. 2015: Engineering Intern at Thales Underwater Systems, Brest, France
- Project: Study of performance improvement in bathymetry by using interferometric multi-baseline sonar
- Supervisor: Dr. Myriam Chabah (Thales)

Domains of Expertise

Earth Observation, Information processing and Data fusion
Image processing and Computer vision

Selected Publications (see full list here)

Super-Resolution-based Snake Model—An Unsupervised Method for Large-Scale Building Extraction using Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Image

T. H. Nguyen, S. Daniel, D. Guériot, C. Sintès, and J.-M. Le Caillec. (2020). "Super-Resolution-based Snake Model—An Unsupervised Method for Large-Scale Building Extraction using Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Image." Remote Sens., 12(11), 1702. DOI: 10.3390/rs12111702

Coarse-to-Fine Registration of Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Imagery on Urban Scenes

T. H. Nguyen, S. Daniel, D. Guériot, C. Sintès, and J.-M. Le Caillec. (2020). "Coarse-to-Fine Registration of Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Imagery on Urban Scenes." IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens.. 13(x), 3125-3144. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2987305

Heterogeneous Data Registration for 3D Underwater Scene Reconstruction

T. H. Nguyen, D. Guériot, J.-M. Le Caillec., C. Sintès and S. Daniel (2017). "Heterogeneous Data Registration for 3D Underwater Scene Reconstruction." Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2017 - Anchorage. 1(3).

Scholarships and Awards

2020 Success Scholarships from Faculté de Foresterie, de Géographie et de Géomatique (FFGG, Université Laval)
2019 Best Poster Award at the ISPRS PIA+MRSS Conference, Munich, Germany
2018 Success Scholarship from Faculté de Foresterie, de Géographie et de Géomatique (FFGG, Université Laval)
2017 Finalist in Student Poster Competition, MTS/IEEE OCEANS’17, Anchorage, AK, USA ¹
2016 Nominee of Telecom Bretagne in the “Best Internship Award” competition, Mines-Telecom Institute, France
2015 Finalist in Student Poster Competition, MTS/IEEE OCEANS’15, Washington DC, USA ¹
2013-2016 Three times received Congratulations from Academic Council of TELECOM Bretagne
2013 Telecom Scholarship for Excellence, Telecom Foundation, Mines-Telecom Institute, France ²
2012 Lawrence S. Ting Scholarship for undergraduate students with excellent academic achievements
2009-2013 Six times received the Academic Excellence Scholarship of HCMC University of Technology

All expenses were sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research. ↩ ↩²
10,000 € ↩

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