Ho Viet Duc Luong

Department of Computer Science, School of Information and Communications Technology (SoICT) 
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) 
 
M.Sc. (Computer Science, Data Science Elitech Program, HUST, 2026)  
B.S. (Computer Science, Talent Computer Science Program, HUST, 2024) 
 
Email: luonghvd@soict.hust.edu.vn | luong.hovietduc@hust.edu.vn  
Web: https://hvdl.soict.io 

• Artificial Intelligence 
• Optimization 
• Evolutionary Computation 
• Wireless Communications 
• Autonomous Systems 

• Evolutionary and population-based optimization 
• Multi-objective and evolutionary multitask optimization 
• AI-assisted optimization and agentic AI 
• Optimization for beyond-5G/6G wireless communication systems 
• Graph neural networks and applications 

Ho Viet Duc Luong is a junior lecturer who graduated with an excellent B.S. degree from the Talent Program in Computer Science and an excellent M.Sc. degree from the Elitech Program in Data Science at the School of Information and Communications Technology (SoICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received the Best Presentation Award in the Thesis Defense Committee Optimization 2024 at SoICT, the Second Prize in Vietnam’s National Mathematical Olympiad 2020, and a Gold Medal in the National Mathematical Olympiad for University and High School Students 2018. Since 2025, he has been working as a lecturer-in-training at the Department of Computer Science, SoICT, HUST. One of his papers was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2026. His research interests include evolutionary computation and artificial intelligence applications in optimization problems for wireless communications and autonomous systems. 

• L. H. N. Anh, H. V. D. Luong, and V. V. An, “From Prompts to Pareto Fronts: Using Code LMs as Semantic Genetic Operators for Compiler Bug Discovery,” Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2026. [Best Paper Award Nomination] 
• H. V. D. Luong, T. L. Dung, L. H. N. Anh, and T. V. Chien, “Evolutionary Multitask Optimization for Coupled Continuous Decision Spaces: A GPU-Accelerated Pre-optimization for Movable-Antenna-and-RIS-aided Systems,” Proceedings of GECCO, 2026. 
• N. T. M. Binh, T. S. Tung, T. L. Dung, and H. V. D. Luong, “Maximizing Lifetime and Target Coverage in Dynamic Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks Using an Enhanced Genetic Algorithm,” Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2026. 
• N. T. M. Binh, L. D. A. Vu, N. H. Viet, H. T. T. Binh, and H. V. D. Luong, “Extending network lifespan and securing effective barrier coverage in 3D underwater wireless sensor networks,” Cluster Computing, 2026. 
• H. V. D. Luong, H. T. T. Binh, N. T. M. Binh, and T. V. Chien, “Mobile device-target association optimization for connectivity enhancement in wireless IoT sensor networks,” Cluster Computing, 2025. 
• D.-L. Nguyen, D.-L. Ho-Viet, A.-T. Ngo-Tran, Q. H. Nguyen, and B. P. Nguyen, “MolHFCNet: Enhancing Molecular Graph Representations with Hierarchical Feature Combining and Hybrid Pretraining,” Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025. 
• H. V. D. Luong, T. V. Chien, L. H. N. Anh, and H. T. T. Binh, “Hybrid Deterministic and Metaheuristic Optimization for Physical Adversarial Attack on End-to-End Autoencoder Wireless Communication Systems,” Proceedings of GECCO Companion, 2025. 
• T. V. Chien, B. T. Duc, H. V. D. Luong, H. T. T. Binh, H. Q. Ngo, and S. Chatzinotas, “Active and Passive Beamforming Designs for SER Minimization in RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 18838–18854, 2024. 
• N. T. M. Binh, H. T. T. Binh, H. V. D. Luong, T. L. Nguyen, and T. V. Chien, “An efficient exact method with polynomial time-complexity to achieve k-strong barrier coverage in heterogeneous wireless multimedia sensor networks,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2024. 
• T. V. Chien, B. T. Duc, H. V. D. Luong, H. T. T. Binh, H. Q. Ngo, and S. Chatzinotas, “Solving Indefinite Communication Reliability Optimization for RIS-Aided Mobile Systems by an Improved Differential Evolution,” Proceedings of GECCO Companion, 2024. 

• Evolutionary multitask optimization for movable-antenna and RIS-aided wireless systems 
• Evolutionary optimization for wireless and underwater sensor networks 
• AI-assisted evolutionary search for autonomous systems and software engineering 

• Best Paper Award Nomination, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2026 
• Best Presentation Award, Thesis Defense Committee Optimization, SoICT, HUST, 2024 
• VINIF Master’s/PhD Scholarship Programme, Vingroup Innovation Foundation, 2024 
• Gold Medal, National Mathematical Olympiad for University and High School Students, 2018 

• Applied Algorithms — algorithms and data structures with practical problem solving 
• Object-Oriented Programming — classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and software design fundamentals 
• Programming Technique — programming techniques in C/C++ 
• Database Practice — practical work with relational database management systems