Loc X. Nguyen.

Research Professor · Kyung Hee University

Loc X. Nguyen

Semantic communications · DeepJSCC · 6G wireless networks

I am a Research Professor at Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea, building intelligent, communication-efficient systems for next-generation (6G) wireless networks.

I received my B.Eng. from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam, and my Ph.D. from Kyung Hee University in 2025. My work centers on semantic communications and deep joint source–channel coding — spanning multi-user and federated semantic communication, non-terrestrial networks (6G LEO satellites), and generative AI and large language models for wireless systems.

Semantic Communications DeepJSCC 6G & Non-Terrestrial Networks Federated Learning Generative AI & LLMs Deep Reinforcement Learning
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News

2026
Our paper FedDAP: Domain-Aware Prototype Learning for Federated Learning under Domain Shift was accepted to CVPR 2026. 🎉
2026
New preprint: Anchor-Aided Multi-User Semantic Communication with Adaptive Decoders is now on arXiv.
2025
Our survey A Contemporary Survey on Semantic Communications appeared in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
2025
Paper on the 6G-NTN semantic communication framework accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
2025
SemSpaceFL, a hierarchical federated learning framework for 6G LEO satellites, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
2024
Two semantic communication papers published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

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IEEE / CVF
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
CVPR · 2026

FedDAP: Domain-Aware Prototype Learning for Federated Learning under Domain Shift

H. Q. Le, Loc X. Nguyen, Y. Qiao, S. T. Kim, E. N. Huh, C. S. Hong

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Conference
IEEE
Communications Surveys & Tutorials
SURVEY · 2025

A Contemporary Survey on Semantic Communications: Theory of Mind, Generative AI, and Deep Joint Source–Channel Coding

Loc X. Nguyen, A. D. Raha, P. S. Aung, D. Niyato, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025

Cited by 66
IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications
TWC · 2025

Semantic Communication Enabled 6G-NTN Framework: A Novel Denoising and Gateway Hop Integration Mechanism

Loc X. Nguyen, S. S. Hassan, Y. K. Tun, K. Kim, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025

Cited by 18
IEEE
Transactions on Communications
TCOM · 2025

SemSpaceFL: A Collaborative Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework for Semantic Communication in 6G LEO Satellites

Loc X. Nguyen, S. S. Hassan, Y. M. Park, Y. K. Tun, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025

Cited by 9
IEEE
Communications Letters
29(1) · 2025

Optimizing Multi-User Semantic Communication via Transfer Learning and Knowledge Distillation

Loc X. Nguyen, K. Kim, Y. L. Tun, S. S. Hassan, Y. K. Tun, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 29(1), pp. 90–94, 2025

Cited by 18
IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology
TVT · 2024

An Efficient Federated Learning Framework for Training Semantic Communication Systems

Loc X. Nguyen, H. Q. Le, Y. L. Tun, P. S. Aung, Y. K. Tun, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024

Cited by 55
IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology
73(6) · 2024

Swin Transformer-Based Dynamic Semantic Communication for Multi-User with Different Computing Capacity

Loc X. Nguyen, Y. L. Tun, Y. K. Tun, M. N. H. Nguyen, C. Zhang, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73(6), pp. 8957–8972, 2024

Cited by 52
IEEE
Internet of Things Journal
10(10) · 2023

Dependency Tasks Offloading and Communication Resource Allocation in Collaborative UAV Networks: A Metaheuristic Approach

Loc X. Nguyen, Y. K. Tun, T. N. Dang, Y. M. Park, Z. Han, C. S. Hong

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10(10), pp. 9062–9076, 2023

Cited by 104
IEEE
Int'l Conference on Information Networking
ICOIN · 2023

A New Chapter for Medical Image Generation: The Stable Diffusion Method

Loc X. Nguyen, P. S. Aung, H. Q. Le, S. B. Park, C. S. Hong

International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), pp. 483–486, 2023

Cited by 55