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Education

• Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA, Dec. 2018.
  • Thesis: “Robot-assisted elderly care in smart homes”.
• M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA, May 2015.
  • Thesis: “Developing a home service robot platform for smart homes”.
• B.S. in Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam, May 1999

Working Experiences

• Aug. 99- Jul. 11: Summer 2015: Lecturer and researcher, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology(PTIT), Vietnam
• Jan. 04 – Nov.06: Freelance Technical consultant and Trainer, VIJATECH Co., Ltd., Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Providing consulting services to electronic technology transferring projects.
  • Training customers of VIJATECH in VHDL, Verilog, and Fundamental of CPLD/FPGA Design

Teaching Experiences

• Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 413TKL340 - Digital Logic Design, Spring 11,10,09, 08, 07.
  • 423DAT420 - Digital System Design Projects,Summer 11,10,09.
  • 413CKD240 - Semiconductor Devices, Fall 10, 09, 08, 07, 06.
  • 413DLD240 - Electronic Measurements and Instruments, Fall 05, 04, 03.

Research Experiences

• Aug. 2011-Present: Graduate Research Associate, Laboratory for Advanced Sensing, Computation & Control, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • Robot-integrated Smart homes for elderly care
    • Designed and implemented a robot-integrated smart home (RiSH) testbed that consists of a home service robot, a home sensor network, a body sensor network, and a mobile device, cloud servers.
    • The RiSH testbed is employed in developing assistive technologies for the elderly who live independently at home.
  • Auditory learning for home service robots
    • Implemented an auditory perception platform for a home service robot that serves the elderly living alone at home. The robot is able to estimate the sound source position and recognize human speech in the room with multiple sound sources, as well as to collaborate with the caregiver on sound event recognition.
    • Developed context-aware sound event recognition for home service robots using a two-level dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) that models the intra-temporal and inter-temporal constraints among the context and sound events.
  • Human-robot collaboration in a Mobile Visual Sensor Network
    • Developed a framework for human-robot collaboration in a Mobile Visual Sensor Network (MVSN). A collaborative architecture for the proposed human-integrated MVSN was developed to allow the human operator and robots to collaborate to perform surveillance tasks.
• Aug. 2017-Present: Graduate Research Associate, Human Development and Family Science Department, School of Human Sciences, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • Socio-emotional Maintenance in Aging with Robotic Technology (SMART)
• Aug. 1999- Jul. 2011, Lecturer, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Design and Implementation of the portable cable test instrument, 2006
  • Developed a portable instrument based on the reflected pulse wave method to test the copper cables of subscriber lines in telecommunication systems.
  • Design and Implementation of the development boards, 2001-2009
  • Designed and implemented the development boards: FPGA and ARM9-core MCU board for Video Processing, Xilinx CPLD and FPGA development boards, 8051 microcontroller family development board, Electronics Circuit Experiment Boards driven by the Computer.
  • Design and Implementation of the Internet Based Testing Software for Distance Training Centers of Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group, 2001-2002
  • Served as the project’s QA person, inspected codes submitted by programming teams and ensured database’s integrity.

Skills

• Technical Skills
  • Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Matlab, Java, ASP
  • Robotic frameworks: ROS, HARK, OpenCV
  • EDA tools: Xilinx ISE, Aldec Active-HDL, Altium
  • HDLs: VHDL, Verilog
  • Database Systems: MS Access, MySQL
  • Operation Systems: Windows, Linux.
• Strengths
  • Proficient in high-level programming languages for both CPU and GPU systems.
  • In-depth research experiences in pattern recognition, machine learning, and auditory learning.
  • Good background in digital logic design, semiconductor devices and circuits, FPGA implementation.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.

Publications

Books/Chapters

[B4] Ha M. Do, “Chapter 2 - Programmable Logic Device, Chapter 3 – Fundamental of VHDL, Chapter 4 – VHDL-based Logic Design Methodologies, Chapter 5 – Case studies in Design of FPGA-based Digital System with VHDL,” Digital Logic Design, The Textbook for students, Published by Information and Library Center of Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Nov. 2010 (in Vietnamese).

B3] Ha M. Do, “Chapter 8 - Programmable Logic Devices, Chapter 9 - Methodologies of Digital System Design with VHDL,” Digital Electronics, Published by Posts and Telematics Publishing House, Vietnam, Mar. 2009 (in Vietnamese).

[B2] Ha M. Do, “Semiconductor Devices,” The Textbook for students, Published by Information and Library Center of Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), 2007 (in Vietnamese).

[B1] Ha M. Do, “Fundamental of Electronic Measurement and Instrument,” The Textbook for students, Published by Information and Library Center of PTIT, 2005 (in Vietnamese).

Journals

[J3] Ha M. Do, Minh Pham, Weihua Sheng, Dan Yang, and Meiqin Liu, “RiSH: A robot-integrated smart home for elderly care.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 101 (2018).

[J2] Minh Pham, Yehenew Mengistu, Ha M. D, Weihua Sheng, “Delivering home healthcare through a Cloud-based Smart Home Environment (CoSHE).” Future Generation Computer Systems, 81 (2018).

[J1] Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, and Meiqin Liu. “Human-assisted sound event recognition for home service robots.” Robotics and Biomimetics, 3.1 (2016).

Conferences

[C14] Erin Harrington, Ha M. Do, G. McCall, E. Boevers, Alex J. Bishop, Weihua Sheng, “Older adult interaction with social robots: Implications for socio-emotional well-being,” 11th World Conference of Gerontechnology, May, 2018.

[C13] E. Boevers, G. McCall, Erin Harrington, Ha M. Do, Alex J. Bishop, Weihua Sheng, “Exploring older adult concerns regarding acceptance and use of social companion robots,” 11th World Conference of Gerontechnology, May, 2018.

[C12] G. McCall, E. Boevers, Erin Harrington, Alex J. Bishop, Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, “Emergent themes in the likes and dislikes of social robots expressed by older adults,” 11th World Conference of Gerontechnology, May, 2018.

[C11] Francisco E. Fernandes, Ha M. Do, Kiran Muniraju, Weihua Sheng, Alex J. Bishop, “Cognitive orientation assessment for older adults using social robots,” Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, 2017.

[C10] Yehenew Mengistu, Minh Pham, Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, “AutoHydrate: A wearable hydration monitoring system.” Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. 2016.

[C9] Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, Meiqin Liu and Senlin Zhang, “Context-aware sound event recognition for home service robots,” Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. 2016.

[C8] Minh Pham, Yehenew Mengistu, Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, “Cloud-Based Smart Home Environment (CoSHE) for home healthcare.” Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. 2016.

[C7] Francisco E. Fernandes, Guanci Yang, Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng, “Detection of privacy-sensitive situations for social robots in smart homes,” Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. 2016.

[C6] Ha M. Do, Weihua Sheng and Meiqin Liu, “An open platform of auditory perception for home service robots,” Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 6161-6166. 2015.

[C5] Ha M. Do, Craig J. Mouser, Meiqin Liu, Weihua Sheng, “Human-robot collaboration in a Mobile Visual Sensor Network,” Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp.2203,2208, Jun. 2014.

[C4] Ha M. Do, Craig J. Mouser, Ye Gu, Sam Honarvar, Tingting Chen, and Weihua Sheng, “An Open Platform Telepresence Robot with Natural Human Interface,” Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2013 IEEE 3rd Annual International Conference on, pp.81,86, May 2013.

[C3] Ye Gu; Ha M. Do; Yongsheng Ou; Weihua Sheng, “Human gesture recognition through a Kinect sensor,” Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, pp.1379,1384, Dec. 2012.

[C2] Ha M. Do; Craig J. Mouser; Weihua Sheng; “Building a Telepresence Robot Based on an open-source Robot Operating System and Android,” Third Conference on Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (TACS 2012), Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, Feb. 2012.

[C1] Hieu T. Nguyen, Ha M. Do, Bac H. Dang, Quang S. Dinh, and Minh. N. Nguyen, “A Development of the Digital Cable Faulty Detection and Measurement System”, in 36th AIC, Manila, Philippines, 2007.

Posters and Presentations

[P2] Ha M. Do, “Sound-based human activity monitoring for home service robots”, NSF Doctoral Consortium meeting, Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. 2016

[P1] Ha M. Do and Bac H. Dang, “Educating, training, and building human resources for electronics design in Vietnam”, Report presented at Conference in Convergence of Digital Technology: IT, Telecommunication and Electronics organized by IDG and MIC in Vietnam Consumer Electronics Expo, Hanoi, Vietnam, Apr. 2008.

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Honors and Awards

• Graduate student award, Research Video Competition: My Research at OSU Rocks!, Oklahoma State University, 2017.
  • Research video: Companion robots for elderly care.
• Travel award, NSF Doctoral Consortium, the IEEE 12th Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2016). #IIS 1645670
• Aug. 2011 – Jul. 2013, “VIED fellowship”, a special program of the Vietnam Government to train the best Vietnamese young lecturers overseas.