Assistant Professor, Docent · Linköping University, Sweden
I’m Khac-Hoang Ngo, an Assistant Professor and Docent in Electrical Engineering at Linköping University. I study how connected systems share information, learn, and make decisions in an efficient, reliable, and trustworthy manner.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Chalmers and earned my PhD at CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University. I'm a Vietnamese, married, with a little daughter. Full CV ↗
I attended the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum as an alumnus. It is as inspiring as always. A major theme is AI in research, especially in math.
I gave my Docent Lecture, ‘Unsourced Multiple Access for Massive Connectivity: from Support Recovery to Type Estimation,’ on June 5.
Our paper on distributed MIMO with over-the-air phase calibration was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Paper
Dr. Alejandro Lancho (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) visited me at LiU.
New preprint: type-based unsourced multiple access over fading channels in distributed MIMO, with application to multi-target localization. Preprint
I was appointed Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Society Student & Outreach Subcommittee.
‘Type-Based Unsourced Federated Learning With Client Self-Selection’ was accepted to IEEE ICC 2026. Paper
‘MATTER: Multiscale Attention for Registration Error Regression’ was accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2026. Paper
Our review of noncoherent MIMO communications was accepted by IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology. Paper
Awarded SEK 6 million from the Swedish Research Council for ‘Memory Poisoning in LLM Agents: Foundations, Attacks, and Defenses,’ with Alexandre Graell i Amat and Johan Östman.
I presented a tutorial on unsourced multiple access, from support recovery to type estimation, at the Swedish Communication Technologies Workshop.
‘Practical Bayes-Optimal Membership Inference Attacks’ was accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Paper
Two papers were accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2025: information age and correctness with energy harvesting, and over-the-air phase synchronization in distributed antenna systems. Publications
I received the 2024 Golden Globe Science and Technology Award in Vietnam.
I joined Linköping University as an Assistant Professor.
Three connected directions, from the limits of communication to the security of learning systems.
Communication & distributed inference
I study how many devices can share information efficiently, even with limited coordination, energy, and knowledge of the wireless channel.
Explore this question ↗Task-oriented sensing & transmission
I explore point-cloud transmission for remote registration: communicating with a downstream task in mind, rather than treating every bit as equally important.
Explore this question ↗AI privacy & security
I investigate privacy risks in learning systems and the foundations of attacks and defenses, including membership inference and memory poisoning in AI agents.
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IEEE SPAWC · 2024
A framework for recovering the collective information reported by many devices, including repeated reports.
IEEE ICASSP · 2026
Work on estimating registration error in point clouds, connecting learned representations with 3D perception.
NeurIPS · 2025
Investigating whether a data sample was part of a model’s training data through a Bayesian approach to membership inference.
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