Member

Phat T. Tran-Truong

Core Member

Email: phatttt@hcmut.edu.vn

Phone: N.A.

Office: Building A3, Department of Software Engineering

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Research Interests: Trustworthy AI, AI/Software Security & Privacy, Machine Learning, Agentic AI, Software Engineering.

Research Output

Selected Publications

1. POP2TIC: Performance Optimization for Privacy-Preserving Fog Computing using TEE and Intelligent Caching

Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCImago Q1, IF: 8.0) (2026)

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2. PrivacyGuard:A Hierarchical Privacy‑Preserving Framework for IoT‑Fog‑Cloud Architectures

Computer Networks (SCIE, SCImago Q1, IF: 4.6) (2026)

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3. Taint-Based Code Slicing for LLMs-based Malicious NPM Package Detection

arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12313 (2026)

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4. LiteFormer: A Lightweight Encoder‑Only Transformer for Efficient Financial Time Series Forecasting Across Global Stock Indices

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (SCIE, SCImago Q1, IF: 8.0) (2026)

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5. Exploring the Reasoning Depth of Small Language Models in Software Architecture: A Multidimensional Evaluation Framework Towards Software Engineering 2.0

23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2026. (A Conference in Software Engineering) (2026)

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6. SegMaFormer: A Hybrid State-Space and Transformer Model for Efficient Segmentation

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22002 (2026)

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7. Enhancing Large Language Model Performance for Automatic Zero‑Shot Multiple‑Choice Question Answering via Single‑Token Logit Prompting

Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (ESCI, SCImago Q1, top 1 journal in Education). (2026)

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8. A Systematic Review of Multi‑Factor Authentication in Digital Payment Systems: NIST Standards Alignment and Industry Implementation Analysis

Journal of Systems Architecture (SCIE, SCImago Q1, IF: 4.1) (2025)

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9. SLIE: A Secure and Lightweight Cryptosystem for Data Sharing in IoT Healthcare Services

International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), (Shenzhen, China) (A Conference in Software Engineering) (2025)

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10. SecureWearTrade: A Comprehensive Blockchain‑Enabled IoT Framework for Secure Personal Data Trading from Wearable Devices

Pervasive and Mobile Computing (SCIE, SCImago Q1, IF: 3.5) (2025)

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11. CI2P‑MedHFDroid: A Context‑Aware Individual Privacy Preferences Model for Medical, Health & Fitness Android Apps

International Journal of Information Security (SCIE, SCImago Q2, IF: 3.2, National “Creative Youth” Award for Vietnamese people under 35) (2025)

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12. TACKLE: Time-based access control and key delegation for letter of credit ecosystems

High-Confidence Computing (ESCI, SCImago Q1, IF: 3.0) (2025)

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13. Decoding the Privacy Policy Implications of Personal Data Processing: A Framework for GDPR Compliance in Business and Social Apps

International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), (Tunis, Tunisia) (A Conference in Software Engineering) (2024)

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14. Money Laundering Detection Using A Transaction-Based Graph Learning Approach

18th IEEE IMCOM (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) (2024)

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15. A Pragmatic Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Framework Satisfying Differential Privacy

SN Computer Science (Scopus, SCImago Q2) (2024)

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