Ngoc-Thanh Dinh is currently an assistant professor with the Department of IT Convergence, Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea. He also serves as an associate editor of IEEE Access. He worked as a visiting scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, MA, the USA in 2019. He was a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science and IT, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia where he received the full scholarship of the university and a top-up scholarship from National ICT Australia for exceptional PhD candidates. In 2020, he was luckily awarded as one of the TOP 10 Outstanding Vietnamese Young Faces from the Vietnam Prime Minister and the Golden Globe Award for Tech Excellence from the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology and Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. In the same year, he received the Honorary Citizen Award from Seoul Government, South Korea. He also serves as an associate editor of IEEE Access Journal and as a TPC member for leading conferences and as a reviewer for top-tier journals. His current research interests include the Internet of Things and Cloud computing, 5G--6G networking, next-generation networks, ICT convergence, and blockchain. He also serves as an advisor/ ambassador for several technology venture capitals and educational organizations.