Published in arXiv preprint, 2026
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Recommended citation: Luong N. Nguyen, "Zero-Shot Confidence Estimation for Small LLMs: When Supervised Baselines Aren't Worth Training." arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.02241, 2026.
Published in IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 2021
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Recommended citation: C.-L. Cheng, S. Sangodoyin, L. N. Nguyen, M. Prvulovic, and A. Zajic, "Digital electronics as RFID tags: impedance estimation and propagation characterization at 26.5 GHz and 300 GHz," IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 29-39, March 2021.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2020
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Recommended citation: S. Adibelli, P. Juyal, L. Nguyen, M. Prvulovic, and A. Zajic, "Near field backscattering based sensing for hardware Trojan detection," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 8082-8090, Dec. 2020.
Published in Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2020
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Recommended citation: L. Nguyen, C. Cheng, F. Werner, M. Prvulovic, and A. Zajic, "A comparison of backscattering, EM, and power side-channels and their performance in detecting software and hardware intrusions," Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, March 2020.
Published in Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2019
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Recommended citation: Haider Khan, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Luong Nguyen, Milos Prvulovic, Alenka Zaji{\'c}, "Malware detection in embedded systems using neural network model for electromagnetic side-channel signals." Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2019.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019
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Recommended citation: Haider Khan, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Luong Nguyen, Robert Callan, Arie Yeredor, Milos Prvulovic, Alenka Zaji{\'c}, "IDEA: Intrusion detection through electromagnetic-signal analysis for critical embedded and cyber-physical systems." IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019.
Published in IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 2019
🏆 Best Poster Award (12th International Conference on RFID 2018)
Recommended citation: Chia-Lin Cheng, Luong Nguyen, Milos Prvulovic, Alenka Zaji{\'c}, "Exploiting switching of transistors in digital electronics for RFID tag design." IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, 2019.
Published in IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, 2019
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Recommended citation: Luong Nguyen, Chia-Lin Cheng, Milos Prvulovic, Alenka Zaji{\'c}, "Creating a backscattering side channel to enable detection of dormant hardware trojans." IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems, 2019.
Published in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2020
🏆 Best Paper Award
Recommended citation: Luong N. Nguyen, Baki Berkay, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, "A Novel Golden-Chip-Free Clustering Technique Using Backscattering Side Channel for Hardware Trojan Detection," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Dec. 2020.
Published in 2016 SoC Conference of Korea, 2016
🏆 Best Paper Award
Recommended citation: Luong N. Nguyen, Tae Sung Kim, Hyuk-Jae Lee, "A Reduction of Interpolation Redundancy for Fractional Motion Estimation in HEVC," 2016 SoC Conference of Korea, May 2016.
Published in International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC), 2016
This paper presents an advanced early termination algorithm for prediction unit (PU) partition and coding unit (CU) depth decisions in HEVC fractional motion estimation, reducing encoding complexity while preserving rate-distortion performance.
Recommended citation: Nguyen Ngoc Luong, Tae Sung Kim, Hyuk-Jae Lee, Soo-Ik Chae, "Advanced Decision of PU Partition and CU Depth for Fractional Motion Estimation in HEVC," International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC), Jan. 2016.