Our People

Meet the BridgeX management team.

A focused management team — led by the Director of the BridgeX AI Lab and supported by senior advisors in research and AI.

Management Team

Management team

The people who lead and advise BridgeX.

Mr. Son (James) Nguyen
Mr. Son (James) Nguyen

Director of BridgeX AI Lab

Technology entrepreneur; Founder & leader of technology and investment ventures across Australia, New Zealand & Vietnam

Experience & Academic Profile

Over two decades across software engineering, SaaS platforms, blockchain applications, digital transformation and innovation-driven ventures, having founded and led several international technology and investment companies.

BSc (Software Engineering), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; MBA, Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management. Currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Otago, developing the Verified Relational Endorsement Framework (VREF) — a blockchain model for trust in professional evaluation.

  • Cross-border venture building & scaling
  • Academia–industry–ecosystem connection

Advisory Areas

Technology entrepreneurshipSaaS & platformsBlockchainDigital transformationBusiness developmentCross-border venturesVenture building
A/Prof. Van-Hau Trieu
A/Prof. Van-Hau Trieu

Advisor

Associate Professor & Discipline Group Chair, Information Systems & Business Analytics, Deakin University

Experience & Academic Profile

Over 20 years in teaching, research and academic leadership in digital innovation, focused on the effective and responsible use of digital technologies for individual, organisational and societal benefit.

Research spans business value realisation, empowering women, digital inclusion, cyberbullying prevention and mitigating migrant-worker exploitation — including the Australian Miscarriage support platform.

  • 2017 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • 2023 AIS Early Career Award
  • 2022 Deakin Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research & Innovation
  • 2021 IEAA Best Practice Award

Advisory Areas

Responsible digital technologyInformation systemsBusiness analyticsDigital inclusionSocial-impact researchResearch supervisionUniversity partnerships
Dr. Duc-Thanh Nguyen
Dr. Duc-Thanh Nguyen

Advisor

Senior Lecturer, School of Information Technology, Deakin University

Experience & Academic Profile

Research in Computer Vision — a sub-field of AI — with applications in robotics, camera-based surveillance, 3D vision and virtual reality, published at major venues including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and AAAI.

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, a premium AI journal. Has attracted and managed competitive national and international research funding totalling over AUD $3.5 million for research in 3D computer vision and AI for wildlife conservation.

Advisory Areas

Artificial intelligenceComputer vision3D vision & VRTechnical validationResearch fundingPlatform operationsLab supervision

Expertise you can put to work.

Each engagement pairs a project lead, a subject-matter expert and, where useful, research associates from the BridgeX Applied Research Lab.

Talk to the team