Hi, I'm Hà Xuân Sơn. A Lecturer, Researcher, and Developer.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ‐ Thomas Edison.

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Ha Xuan Son is an Associate Lecturer at Blockchain Enabled Business, SGS Campus, RMIT University. Before joining RMIT, he was a Marie Curie Fellow in Real-time Analytics for Internet of Sports (RAIS) project under the profession of Prof. Elena Ferrari and Prof. Barbara Carminati at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy . During the research period, he has had a history of practical experience working with professors from the world's top universities, including the USA (MIT, Harvard University); UK (Cambridge University); Sweden (KTH); Italy (UNITN); and Cyprus (UCY). His research interests are in Security, Data privacy, and Blockchain fields. He is the author, co-author of more than 30 scientific articles appeared in about 20 conferences and journals in Security and Privacy fields. He is also currently serving as a reviewer for several journals, such as Future Generation Computer Systems, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Journal Cloud Computing, Springer Computing Journal, International Journal of Medical Informatics as well as conferences such as ASONAM 2021; CODASPY 2022; ICDCS 2022.

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Charity
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WORK EXPERIENCE

2023 - Onward

Associate Lecturer - Blockchain-Enabled Business, SGS Campus, RMIT University

Head of department: Dr. Thanh-Binh Nguyen

Subject:

Forecasting and Quantitative Analysis (Sem I - 2023)

2019 – 2023

Researcher and Developer - University of Insubria, Italy

Advisor: Prof. Elena Ferrari and Prof. Barbara Carminati

Project:

Real-time Analytics for Internet of Sports (RAIS), under grant agreement No 813162, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks

Cyber security competence for research and innovation, under grant agreement No 830927 (CONCORDIA), funded by H2020 Research and Innovation program

Technologies:

NodeJS, Android platform, natural language processing, static analysis, dynamic analysis, homomorphic encryption, trusted execution environment, edge computing, BERT.

Jan – Jun 2022

Researcher and Developer - Kinetic Analysis, Netherland

Advisor: Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Dr. Maarten Gijssel

Project:

Balancing between privacy-preserving analysis and convenience-service providing for motion data in the Hockey field

Technologies:

NodeJS, python, homomorphic encryption, trusted execution environment, Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network.

Jun – Sep 2021

Researcher and Developer - Belfer center, Harvard Kennedy school, Harvard University, USA

Advisor: Prof. Elena Ferrari and Dr. Julia Voo

Project:

Determining whether China uses Twitter to stimulate tensions between Europe and the United States in the period surrounding the 2020 Presidential election

Technologies:

NodeJS, NLP, Twitter API, Word2Vec, BERT, NLP Stanford parser, Python

Jan – Jun 2021

Researcher and Developer - Internet Computing Lab (LInC), University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Advisor: Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Prof. George Pallis

Project:

Privacy-preserving data transfer according to user privacy preferences

Technologies:

NodeJS, Fogify, trusted execution environment, fog computing

2015 – 2019

Researcher and Developer - D-STAR Lab, Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology, Vietnam

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Tran Khanh Dang

Project:

Developing a Storage Model and Access Control Method for Big Data Management Systems in Universities (2015 – 2018), funded by DoST–CT

A new generation access control model for privacy preserving in NoSQL Document data (2018 – 2019), funded by VNUHCM

Technologies:

NodeJS, Java, XACML, ABAC

Feb – Jul 2017

RESEARCHER AND DEVELOPER - Security Lab, DISI, University of Trento, Italy

Advisor: Prof. Fabio Massacci

Project:

FuturesMEX - A research experiment on Secured Distributed Futures Market Exchange based on a Blockchain framework.

Scientific topics:

Market exchange, anonymous communications, zero-knowledge, blockchain, multi-party computation

Technologies:

Java, C++, Zero knowledge proof, MPC, Hyperledger Fabric, Vagrant, Blockchain

2013 – 2019

Lecturer - Cantho University of Technology, Vietnam

Subject:

Algorithm (2013 – 2015), Operating System (2017 – 2019), Clean Code (2018 – 2019)

2018 – 2019

Visiting Lecturer - FPT University, Can Tho campus, Vietnam

Subject:

Database System (2018 – 2019), Operating System (2018 – 2019)

2015 – 2017

TEACHING ASSISTANT - Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology, Vietnam

Work:

Manage at Advanced Computing Lab (AC - Lab)

Subject:

Advanced Database System (2015 – 2016)

CORE SKILLS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Individual privacy preferences

User-centric management system

Data privacy

Blockchain

Trusted execution environment

NLP

Privacy-preserving computation

Machine learning

HARD SKILLS

Data privacy

Security

Android S&P analysis

Privacy-preserving computation

Static and dynamic analysis

Authorization

Cryptography

Blockchain design

Environment configuration

SOFT SKILLS

Communication

Vivaciousness

Dynamism

Self-motivation

Teamwork

Time management

Willingness to explore new topics

Adapting to new environment

PROGRAMING SKILLS

Front-end

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Wordpress, Latex

Back-end

NodeJS, Java, C++, Python

Database

MongoDB, SQL, SQLite

Operating System

Android, MacOS, Windows, Linux

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Marie Curie Fellowship

Awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (2019 – 2022)

Excellent Lecturer Award

Awarded merit certificate granted by the headmaster of the Cantho University of Technology for the excellent academic activities (2017 – 2018)

Excellent Master Student Award

Awarded merit certificate granted by the headmaster of HCMUT – VNUHCM for outstanding postgraduates in the master course (2015 – 2017)

Best Master’s Thesis Award

Awarded certificate for the best master’s thesis in the computer science course at HCMUT – VNUHCM (2017)

Erasmus + Scholarship

Awarded student exchange scholarship program by HCMUT (Vietnam) and UNITN (Italy) for outstanding student (2017)

Excellent Student Award

Awarded merit certificate granted by the headmaster of CTU for outstanding undergraduates in the bachelor course (2009 – 2013)

CTU Scholarship

Awarded to only 5% of the students in my college (in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2019 - 2022

PhD student in Computer Science – Marie Curie Fellow - University of Insubria, Italy - RAIS project

Advisor: Prof. Elena Ferrari and Prof. Barbara Carminati

Topic:

RAIS-INSUB-ESR4: ‘User-Centric Personal Data Management’

FEB – JUL 2017

ERASMUS+ STUDY AND TRAINEESHIP - UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO, ITALY

Advisor: Prof. Fabio Massacci and Dr. Nam Ngo

GPA:

30/30

Research Project:

FuturesMEX - Secure Distributed Futures Market Exchange

2015 – 2017

M.Sc. in Computer Science - Ho Chi Minh city University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Tran Khanh Dang

GPA:

9.18/10 (Ranked 1st in Computer Science in the master course)

Thesis:

‘Research and Development the Access Control Model for Big Data’. Grade 10/10

2009 – 2013

B.E. in Software Engineering - Cantho University (CTU), Vietnam

Supervisor: M.Sc. Vo Huynh Tram

GPA:

3.69/4 (Ranked 1st in Software Engineering Faculty, Cantho University, Vietnam)

Thesis:

‘Development of the Caro algorithm on HTML5 and CSS3’. Grade 4.0/4.0

My ActivitiesMy Work

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

My Charity activities for community

Supporting people blocked during the Covid-19 pandemic

Building bridges and roads

Distributing gifts to disadvantaged areas

Follow more about my charity activities at: My charity activities

My Heart letter for community charity

Dear Sponsors,

I am a Vietnames. Currently, Vietnam is a developing country, and our homeland still has a lot of people who need help. Along with many friends, my wife and I are the founders of the charity group "Green Road". We have posted fundraising activities from benefactors from all over the world who read this content or our Facebook friends. Please feel free to share. We have activities to build shelters for the poor, raise money to buy milk and food for children, plant forests and trees, build roads and bridges in disadvantaged rural areas, help people isolated in quarantine areas due to Covid-19, and many other calls. $1 can help a meal for the whole family/day.

If you are a supporter, check out the activities we post on the personal Facebook pages of me, my wife, or my friends . All activities are posted publicly. The content is in Vietnamese but can be quickly translated by using Facebook's translation tool. Information on how to contribute is also included with each activity.

For further support please send to:

Bank of Vietnam

0111000273282 - Account owner Tran Thi Be Tuyen. - Vietcombank Can Tho branch.

01973473501 - Account owner Ha Xuan Son. - TP Bank Can Tho branch.

European Bank

IBAN IT36A0567617295IB0001099507 - Account owner Ha Xuan Son - Italy

IBAN LT33 3250 0135 6176 1147 - Account owner Trung Nghia Duong

We appreciate your time, sympathy and money. Thank you for reading, sharing and contributing.

Green Road Group - "Green Road" Group

Bức tâm thư của tôi cho hoạt động vì cộng đồng

Kính gửi các nhà tài trợ,

Tôi là một người con Việt Nam. Hiện tại, Việt Nam là một đất nước đang phát triển, và quê hương của chúng tôi vẫn còn rất nhiều người cần sự giúp đỡ. Cùng với nhiều bạn bè, tôi và vợ tôi là những người sáng lập nhóm thiện nguyện "Con đường xanh". Chúng tôi đã đăng các hoạt động quyên góp từ các nhà hảo tâm từ khắp nơi trên thế giới, những người đọc nội dung này hoặc bạn bè trên Facebook của chúng tôi. Xin vui lòng chia sẻ. Chúng tôi có các hoạt động xây dựng mái ấm cho người nghèo, quyên góp tiền mua sữa và thực phẩm cho trẻ em, giúp đỡ các bệnh nhân cần giúp đỡ, trồng rừng và cây xanh, xây cầu đường ở những vùng nông thôn khó khăn, giúp đỡ những người bị cô lập trong khu vực cách ly do Covid-19, và rất nhiều lời kêu gọi khác. 1 đô la có thể giúp một bữa ăn cho cả gia đình.

Nếu bạn là một người ủng hộ, hãy xem những hoạt động mà chúng tôi đăng tải trên trang Facebook cá nhân của tôi, vợ tôi, hoặc bạn bè tôi . Mọi hoạt động đều được đăng tải ở chế độ công khai. Nội dung bằng tiếng Việt nhưng có thể dịch nhanh bằng công cụ dịch của Facebook. Thông tin về cách đóng góp cũng được đính kèm trong mỗi hoạt động.

Mọi chi tiết ủng hộ xin gửi về:

Ngân hàng Việt Nam

0111000273282 - Chủ TK Trần Thị Bé Tuyền - Ngân hàng Vietcombank chi nhánh Cần Thơ.

01973473501 - Chủ TK Hà Xuân Sơn. - Ngân hàng TP Bank chi nhánh Cần Thơ.

Ngân hàng Châu Âu

IBAN IT36A0567617295IB0001099507 - Chủ TK Hà Xuân Sơn - Ý

IBAN LT33 3250 0135 6176 1147 - Chủ TK Dương Trung Nghĩa - Châu Âu

Chúng tôi đánh giá cao thời gian, sự thông cảm và tiền bạc của bạn. Cảm ơn bạn đã đọc, chia sẻ và đóng góp.

Nhóm Con Đường Xanh - Nhóm "con đường xanh"

My PublicationsMy Publications

My Passion for Research and Science

"A monument to Newton! a monument to Shakespeare! Look up to Heaven—look into the Human Heart. Till the planets and the passions–the affections and the fixed stars are extinguished—their names cannot die." - John Wilson

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Citations 314 307
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Conference

2022

Authors: HT Le, LNT Thanh, HK Vo, HH Luong, KNH Tuan, TD Anh, KHN Vuong, ...

Patient-Chain: Patient-centered Healthcare System a Blockchain-based Technology in Dealing with Emergencies

Conference: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies.

Publisher: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications …, 2022.

2022

Authors: KL Quoc, HK Vo, LH Huong, KH Gia, KT Dang, HL Van, NH Huu, ...

SSSB: An Approach to Insurance for Cross-Border Exchange by Using Smart Contracts

Conference: International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems.

Publisher: International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems …, 2022.

2021

Authors: NTT Quynh, HX Son, TH Le, HND Huy, KH Vo, HH Luong, KNH Tuan, ...

Toward a design of blood donation management by blockchain technologies

Conference: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications.

Publisher: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 78-90, 2021.

2021

Authors: TTL Nguyen, HK Vo, HH Luong, HTK Nguyen, AT Dao, XS Ha

Toward a unique IoT network via single sign-on protocol and message queue

Conference: International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management.

Publisher: International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial …, 2021.

2021

Authors: LNT Thanh, HK Vo, HH Luong, KNH Tuan, AT Dao, HX Son

Toward a security IoT platform with high rate transmission and low energy consumption

Conference: International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications.

Publisher: International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, 647-662, 2021.

2021

Authors: HX Son, B Carminati, E Ferrari

A Risk Assessment Mechanism for Android Apps

Conference: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT).

Publisher: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT …, 2021.

2020

Authors: XS Ha, TH Le, TT Phan, HHD Nguyen, HK Vo, N Duong-Trung

Scrutinizing trust and transparency in cash on delivery systems

Conference: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage.

Publisher: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation …, 2020.

2020

Authors: XS Ha, HT Le, N Metoui, N Duong-Trung

Dem-cod: Novel access-control-based cash on delivery mechanism for decentralized marketplace

Conference: 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom).

Publisher: 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in …, 2020.

2020

Authors: HX Son, TH Le, NTT Quynh, HND Huy, N Duong-Trung, HH Luong

Toward a blockchain-based technology in dealing with emergencies in patient-centered healthcare systems

Conference: International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking.

Publisher: International Conference on Mobile, Secure, and Programmable Networking, 44-56, 2020.

2020

Authors: HT Huynh, N Duong-Trung, XS Ha, NQT Tang, HX Huynh, DQ Truong

Automatic Keywords-based Classification of Vietnamese Texts

Conference: 2020 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF).

Publisher: 2020 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication …, 2020.

2017

Authors: HX Son, TK Dang, F Massacci

REW-SMT: a new approach for rewriting XACML request with dynamic big data security policies

Conference: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage.

Publisher: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation …, 2017.

2017

Authors: QNT Thi, TK Dang, HL Van, HX Son

Using JSON to specify privacy preserving-enabled attribute-based access control policies

Conference: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage.

Publisher: International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation …, 2017.

2016

Authors: SH Xuan, LK Tran, TK Dang, YN Pham

Rew-xac: an approach to rewriting request for elastic abac enforcement with dynamic policies

Conference: 2016 International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ACOMP).

Publisher: 2016 International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ACOMP …, 2016.

2015

Authors: NH Thuan, P Antunes, D Johnstone, HX Son

Building an Enterprise Ontology of Business Process Crowdsourcing: A Design Science Approach.

Conference: PACIS.

Publisher: PACIS, 112, 2015.

Journal

2022

Authors: HT Le, TTL Nguyen, TA Nguyen, XS Ha, N Duong-Trung

BloodChain: A Blood Donation Network Managed by Blockchain Technologies

Journal: Network.

Publisher: Network 2 (1), 21-35, 2022.

2022

Authors: LTT Nguyen, SX Ha, TH Le, HH Luong, KH Vo, KHT Nguyen, TA Dao, ...

BMDD: a novel approach for IoT platform (broker-less and microservice architecture, decentralized identity, and dynamic transmission messages)

Journal: PeerJ Computer Science.

Publisher: PeerJ Computer Science 8, e950, 2022.

2022

Authors: HX Son, B Carminati, E Ferrari

A Risk Estimation Mechanism for Android Apps based on Hybrid Analysis

Journal: Data Science and Engineering.

Publisher: Data Science and Engineering, 1-11, 2022.

2022

Authors: HT Le, KL Quoc, TA Nguyen, KT Dang, HK Vo, HH Luong, H Le Van, ...

Medical-Waste Chain: A Medical Waste Collection, Classification and Treatment Management by Blockchain Technology

Journal: Computers.

Publisher: Computers 11 (7), 113, 2022.

2021

Authors: LNT Thanh, NN Phien, HK Vo, HH Luong, TD Anh, KNH Tuan, HX Son

UIP2SOP: a unique IoT network applying single sign-on and message queue protocol

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 12 (6), 2021.

2021

Authors: LNT Thanh, NN Phien, HK Vo, HH Luong, TD Anh, KNH Tuan, HX Son

IoHT-MBA: an internet of healthcare things (IoHT) platform based on microservice and brokerless architecture

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 12 (7), 2021.

2021

Authors: LNT Thanh, TA Nguyen, HK Vo, HH Luong, HTK Nguyen, AT Dao, XS Ha

Toward a unique iot network via single sign-on protocol and message queue

Journal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, Ełk, Poland.

Publisher: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Information Systems …, 2021.

2021

Authors: LNT Thanh, NN Phien, HK Vo, HH Luong, TD Anh, KNH Tuan, HX Son

Sip-MBA: a secure IoT platform with brokerless and micro-service architecture

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 12 (7), 2021.

2020

Authors: N Duong-Trung, N Quynh, T Tang, XS Ha

Interpretation of Machine Learning Models for Medical Diagnosis

Journal: Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal.

Publisher: Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal 5 (5), 469-477, 2020.

2020

Authors: N Duong-Trung, QN Nguyen, DN Le Ha, XS Ha, TT Phan, HX Huynh

Genres and Actors/Actresses as Interpolated Tags for Improving Movie Recommender Systems

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 11 (2), 2020.

2020

Authors: TK Dang, XS Ha, LK Tran

XACs-DyPol: Towards an XACML-based Access Control Model for Dynamic Security Policy

Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07160.

Publisher: arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07160, 2020.

2019

Authors: HX Son, E Chen

Towards a fine-grained access control mechanism for privacy protection and policy conflict resolution

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 10 (2), 2019.

2019

Authors: NTT Le, QN Nguyen, NN Phien, N Duong-Trung, TT Huynh, TP Nguyen, ...

Assuring non-fraudulent transactions in cash on delivery by introducing double smart contracts

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 10 (5 …, 2019.

2019

Authors: HT Le, NTT Le, NN Phien, N Duong-Trung, HX Son, TT Huynh

Introducing multi shippers mechanism for decentralized cash on delivery system

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 10 (6), 2019.

2019

Authors: N Duong-Trung, XS Ha, TT Phan, PN Trieu, QN Nguyen, D Pham, ...

Multi-sessions mechanism for decentralized cash on delivery system

Journal: Int. J. Adv. Comput. Sci. Appl.

Publisher: Int. J. Adv. Comput. Sci. Appl 10 (9), 2019.

2019

Authors: HX Son, MH Nguyen, NN Phien, HT Le, QN Nguyen, PT Tru, P Nguyen

Towards a mechanism for protecting seller’s interest of cash on delivery by using smart contract in hyperledger

Journal: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.

Publisher: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 10 (4), 2019.

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“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.” ― Stefan Molyneux

Location

: RMIT University, SGS Campus, Vietnam

Work

: Associate Lecturer at Blockchain-Enable Business

Education

: PhD at DiSTA, University of Insubria, Italy

Languages

: English and VietNamese