Pham Van Tien graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 1997. In 2003, he completed a master’s program at Waseda University, Japan, majoring in computer systems and network engineering. After earning the Dr. rer. nat. degree in informatics from the University of Paderborn, Germany, he has been working as a faculty member in the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications at Hanoi University of Science and Technology since 2007. In 2008, he was also a guest researcher at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and at the University of Trento, Italy. Through long-term collaboration with experts in Samsung Electronics, he has delivered research outcomes from nine projects related to mobile communications, embedded operating systems, and multimedia data processing. He is currently with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.