Huynh Nguyen
Postdoctoral Researcher And Lecturer at HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU)
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolHuynh Nguyen is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer specializing in geoinformatics and semantic spatial graphs, with 12 years of software and academic experience across TUM and HCU in Germany. He develops efficient graph-based algorithms and data structures for change detection in temporal 3D city models and leads the Cesium-based 3DCityDB Web Map Client project. As a long-term contributor and Java developer for the open-source 3D City Database, he blends research rigor with production-grade engineering across front- and back-end stacks. His work has bridged standards and tooling—contributing CityGML conversion tools and SSO/GDPR-aware spatial data solutions—demonstrating practical impact on smart city infrastructures. Comfortable lecturing and mentoring, he pairs a passion for teaching with deep interests in physics, astronomy and mathematics that inform his analytical approach. Based in Hamburg, he combines academic publication and open-source leadership to move semantic 3D city model research into usable web applications.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Natural Sciences Geoinformatics, Doctor of Natural Sciences Geoinformatics at Technical University of MunichAdvanced Course in Physics, Advanced Course in Physics at Le Hong Phong High School For The Gifted, HCMC, VietnamBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Bach Khoa University (fomerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology)Postdoc Geoinformatics, Postdoc Geoinformatics at HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU)
English, German, Vietnamese, Japanese
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Github Skills (56)
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cesiumjs10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tum-gis/citymodel-compare
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
A tool to map and match CityGML datasets, as well as interpret their changes, all by using graphs.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year 3 months
citygmldatabasegeometrygraph-algorithmsgraphs
tum-gis/citygml-change-detection
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
A Java-based tool capable of detecting spatio-semantic changes between two arbitrarily large-sized CityGML datasets using the graph database Neo4j. Found changes are represented by edit operations, which can then be executed using e.g. the Web Feature Service (WFS) to update the old city model.
Contributions:3 releases, 341 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 2 months
wfs-servicecitygmlneo4j-graph-databasefeature-serviceweb-feature-service
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