Nguyen Nam Trung

PhD Candidate

Nguyen Nam Trung is a PhD Candidate at Griffith University specialising in the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), human security, criminology, and legal governance in developing countries. His doctoral research is situated within the broader topic of AI and Human Security in Developing Countries: Legal Challenges and Vietnam's Response, with a current focus on AI-driven data exploitation and scam-forced criminality in transnational scam operations in Southeast Asia, using Vietnam as a focal case.

His research examines how AI-driven data exploitation shapes the organisation of offending, patterns of victimisation, and capable guardianship in scam-forced criminality. It considers how personal and behavioural data may be collected, processed, analysed, and exploited to facilitate scam victimisation, recruitment into forced criminality, labour control, and cross-border criminal operations. Drawing on criminological and interdisciplinary perspectives, his work also explores the dual position of trafficked or coerced persons who may be used as operational offenders while also being structural victims of forced criminality.

Trung’s research background includes work on AI governance, privacy, and technology-related harms, including his study on AI surveillance and the right to privacy in Vietnam from a human security perspective. His broader academic interests include cyber-enabled crime, technology-driven harms, comparative law, public law, international trade law, and regulatory frameworks related to ESG and corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly in the context of developing economies.

Beyond his research, Trung has experience in legal education and academic activities. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Economics and Finance (UEF) in Ho Chi Minh City, where he contributes to teaching, research development, and international academic engagement. He has also contributed to the organisation of national and international academic activities, including moot court competitions and interdisciplinary seminars in comparative and international law.

Trung is interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and policy-oriented research. His work seeks to contribute to ongoing discussions on AI-related criminality, human security, transnational crime, digital governance, victim protection, and inclusive development in Asia.