Nouslogic Telehealth Inc. Hoang Nhu

Ex-piano/math major. Engineer turned inventor, investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

In the early days of the Digital Transformation revolution, his R&D work at the Hewlett-Packard Instruments Division involves the hardware design of FFT spectrum/network analyzers and the development of their DSP algorithms. Later, at the HP Home Imaging Division, he designed HP’s first PhotoSmart imaging chip, then led Broadcom’s set-top box and digital TV chips, enabling the conversion from analog to digital televisions worldwide.

His patents came out of those works, and so did his own company: Nouslogic Telehealth builds an AIoT-based remote patient monitoring platform to serve connected health, preventative medicine applications in the Aging-in-place, Senior Living markets. UC Irvine’s Hoang Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is named after him for his endowment fund.

Hoang Nhu

Hoang Nhu Founder and Chief Executive Officer Nouslogic Telehealth Inc.

25 years of system on chip

Two world's firsts

25 years of system on chip work sit on this shelf of mementos, pioneering and patented, with two world’s firsts among them. He was the 2nd engineer in HP’s Home Imaging Division, designing the digital photography SoC chip which eventually retired the century-old darkroom film-processing tradition. And the Broadcom mementos represent some of his projects in “Triple Play” media streaming technology and HDTV SoC.

A shelf of objects from 25 years of chip design: a framed 300mm silicon wafer; a framed Broadcom 7038 die plot with block labels such as MPEG2 Video Decoder, Audio Decoder PCM Engine and MIPS; a Broadcom plaque reading Hoang Nhu, September 2000, In Recognition of 10 Years of dedicated service to Broadcom Corporation; a Nikon N90 on a Kodak DCS 420 digital back with a 105MB MobileMax PCMCIA hard drive; an Apple QuickTake 150; an HP PhotoSmart camera with an 8MB flash card; a smaller Broadcom acrylic award; and 2 gold-pinned chip packages printed HP CASABLANKA 09 16 1994.
The wafer, the die plot, the 1st digital cameras and the CASABLANKA chips, dated September 16, 1994.

The wafer, the die plot, the 1st digital cameras and the CASABLANKA chips, dated September 16, 1994.

A shelf of objects from 25 years of chip design: a framed 300mm silicon wafer; a framed Broadcom 7038 die plot with block labels such as MPEG2 Video Decoder, Audio Decoder PCM Engine and MIPS; a Broadcom plaque reading Hoang Nhu, September 2000, In Recognition of 10 Years of dedicated service to Broadcom Corporation; a Nikon N90 on a Kodak DCS 420 digital back with a 105MB MobileMax PCMCIA hard drive; an Apple QuickTake 150; an HP PhotoSmart camera with an 8MB flash card; a smaller Broadcom acrylic award; and 2 gold-pinned chip packages printed HP CASABLANKA 09 16 1994.

1994. HP PhotoSmart

HP’s first PhotoSmart imaging chip, the CASABLANKA, named and designed by him alone (with the support of HP’s in-house fab, similar to today’s TSMC). Some other state of the art mementos of the 1990s:

  • HP’s 1st digital camera, with an 8MB flash module
  • Apple’s 1st QuickTake digital camera
  • a $7,000 Kodak digital back on a Nikon body, a 1.5 MP camera storing to a 105MB PCMCIA hard drive, against today’s iPhone camera at 48 MP

2000s. Broadcom video streaming technologies

Broadcom’s 7038 die plot and a framed 300mm wafer from the set-top box and digital TV system on chip product line he led, the silicon behind the conversion from analog to digital HD TV worldwide.

1984-present

Career

Signal processing algorithm development first, then silicon SoC design. He was the first at Hewlett-Packard to introduce MMI (Xilinx) FPGA technologies into the design of its FFT spectrum analyzer in 1988. Then the first low cost home imaging system on chip, then the chips inside a generation of digital HD televisions and set top boxes at Broadcom. The patents, the honors and the published work from those years are listed below.

  1. 2025-present

    UC Irvine, Samueli School of Engineering

    Dean's Leadership Council

  2. 2013-present

    Nouslogic Telehealth Inc.

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Irvine, California

  3. 2000-2013

    Broadcom

    SoC ASIC Chip Team Lead

    Irvine, California

  4. 1994-2000

    Hewlett-Packard, Home Imaging Division

    SoC ASIC Chip Lead

    Rancho Bernardo, California

  5. 1992-1994

    Applied Signal Technology

    System/FPGA Engineer

    Sunnyvale, California

  6. 1984-1992

    Hewlett-Packard, Instruments Division

    R&D Engineer

    Lake Stevens, Washington

Issued US patents

  • Imaging and print pipelines 1998-2004 Hewlett-Packard
  • Audio and broadcast 2006-2011 Broadcom
  • System on chip 2009-2014 Broadcom
  • Connected health 2018 KoolTechs Inc

Patent Issued Title Assignee
US 5,771,338 1998-06-23 Error diffusion architecture with simultaneous print and store data paths for converting a scanned image into multiple copies of a printed image Hewlett-Packard
US 5,848,224 1998-12-08 Optimally pipelined error diffusion architecture for converting scanned image into four-color printed image Hewlett-Packard
US 6,381,371 2002-04-30 Method and apparatus for processing image files Hewlett-Packard
US 6,741,746 2004-05-25 Method and apparatus for processing image files HP Development Company
US 7,079,657 2006-07-18 System and method of performing digital multi-channel audio signal decoding Broadcom
US 7,409,339 2008-08-05 Methods and systems for sample rate conversion Broadcom
US 7,457,420 2008-11-25 Method and system for detecting signal modes in a broadcast audio transmission Broadcom
US 7,489,362 2009-02-10 Television functionality on a chip Broadcom
US 7,558,549 2009-07-07 Method and system for rejecting single-sided leakage into an amplitude modulated (AM) channel Broadcom
US 7,912,153 2011-03-22 System and method of performing digital multi-channel audio signal decoding Broadcom
US 7,961,255 2011-06-14 Television functionality on a chip Broadcom
US 8,005,667 2011-08-23 Methods and systems for sample rate conversion Broadcom
US 8,854,545 2014-10-07 Television functionality on a chip Broadcom
US 9,959,242 2018-05-01 Keys and sensors for daily consumer activities Hoang Nhu
US 9,980,082 2018-05-22 System and method for tracking locations and activities KoolTechs Inc

Honors and recognition

  • 2025

    Hoang Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    UC Irvine named its EECS department after him

    Read the full account below

  • 2019

    15 Most Promising Smart City Startups

    Nouslogic named by StartupCity magazine

  • 2025

    AISC 2025, the inaugural AI-Semiconductor Conference

    Invited speaker, Hanoi, March 2025

  • 2015

    Winner, Silicon Labs 2015 IoT Contest

    Silicon Labs and DigiKey, for the KoolTechs IoT platform, $10,000 prize

Speaker card for AISC25, the International AI-Semiconductor Conference, Vietnam, March 12 to 16. Hoang Nhu, Founder and CEO, Nouslogic Telehealth, pictured in a grey jacket, with the session topic: from DSP algorithms and SoC chip design and fab processes to AI on the edge medical applications. A bar at the foot names the organizers and participating companies.
2025 . Invited speaker From DSP Algorithms & SoC Chip Design/Fab Processes To AI On The Edge Medical Applications The speaker card for AISC 2025, the inaugural AI-Semiconductor Conference, Hanoi, March 2025. The conference

Characterize Digital Control Loops. Electronic Design, February 14, 1991.

  1. Page one. The headline Characterize Digital Control Loops over the case for a software summing junction, with the standard closed loop model figure. The author's printed contact block at the foot of the left column is redacted.
  2. Page two, running head Digital Open-Loop Measurements. The mixed analog and digital loop figure with the analyzer's digital source, the drafting plotter's pen axis servo diagram around an 8051 microcontroller, and the closed loop equations.
  3. Page three. The starred transform derivation through equation nine, the analog summing junction figure with its added converter circuits, and the discussion of pen carriage belt resonances.
  4. Page four. The measured open loop magnitude and phase curves showing small resonances near 260 Hz, the sources of error in the analog injection scheme, and the 8051 assembly listing that creates the digital summing junction.
  5. Page five. The digital summing junction hardware figure, the cleaner swept sine measurements, the common clock cautions, the reference, and the author biography naming his Hewlett-Packard division and his two degrees.

Education

  1. Undergraduate

    Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

    California Polytechnic University, Pomona

    Summa Cum Laude

  2. Graduate

    Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

    University of Washington

    Hewlett-Packard Fellowship Award

Remote patient monitoring

Nouslogic Telehealth

A patient sees a doctor for 20 minutes, then goes home for 3 months. Nobody measures anything in between. If a dose is skipped, if a heart rhythm changes, if someone stops moving around the house, if sleep or exercise drops off, the clinic finds out at the next appointment.

Remote patient monitoring closes that gap. A wearable patch, a connected medication dispenser and a home hub take readings every day and send them to the clinic over the patient’s own internet, or over cellular where there is none. Care staff watch for the readings that matter and call when something moves. The platform is documented in full at nousrpm.com.

An older man in a robe sits at a kitchen table and touches the screen of a white medication dispenser. The screen reads Time for your pills, Blood pressure pill, white, round, 1 pill, above buttons reading TAKE NOW and NOT YET. A small monitoring patch is taped to his chest with a lead running to a second electrode.
The dispenser prompts at the scheduled time, logs and reports what was actually taken. The ECG patch on his chest reads a single lead ECG the whole while. Nouslogic was selected into the Mayo Clinic AI Platform_Accelerate cohort in February 2026, with access to millions of de-identified ECG records and the clinical notes that go with them. Trained on that record, the AI model detects different types of arrhythmia on its own.
One loop, from the prescription to the patient and back

At home

Doctor or pharmacy

  1. Writes or digitizes the prescription
  2. Loads the doses into a tray
  3. Sends the tray to the house

Cloud

Holds the record, securely.

Patient Info

Patient Name: Cao Ngoc Tien Patient ID: 1015

Prescription

1. Vitamin D

Dosage: 500mg

Start Date: 2026-02-07

Interval: Daily

Schedule: 11:30 . 14:00 . 17:00

2. Vitamin A

Dosage: 500mg

Start Date: 2026-02-07

Interval: Custom

Schedule: 11:30 . 14:00 . 17:00

What the clinic and the pharmacy see.

The prescription downloads into the cabinet on its own.

Dispenser at home

  1. Tray goes into the cabinet

Prompts at the hour, releases the dose, reports what was actually taken.

Voice assistant

An AI chatbot you talk to out loud, about a dose or a reading.

Runs on the local processor, not in the cloud.

Patient at home

The right medicine, at the right hour, and the patch stays on.

ECG sensor patch

Worn on the chest, reading continuously.

  • Heart rate
  • Heart rate variability
  • SpO2
  • Respiratory rate
  • Activity
  • Falls

Rechargeable, 4 days per charge.

Mobile app

Shows the readings. Controls the cabinet. The AI detects arrhythmia types.

Health data and alerts, back to the cloud.

Swipe the diagram sideways to follow the whole loop.

Readings travel the route the prescription came down, out through the home hub and up to the clinic's dashboard, so a missed dose or a changed rhythm arrives in time to act on.

Read more about our dispenser

The patch reads a single lead ECG continuously, and it pairs with either the phone or the cabinet, so a patient who does not carry a smartphone still reports. It is under an ongoing FDA application.

Read more about our Health AImate ECG patch

Teaching a machine to read a heartbeat

February 2026 . Mayo Clinic AI Platform_Accelerate

A single lead ECG carries more than a rhythm. Reading it well, at scale, takes a model trained on more records than any one hospital holds.

Nouslogic was selected into the Mayo Clinic AI Platform_Accelerate cohort in February 2026, with access to millions of de-identified ECG records and the clinical notes that go with them.

Trained on that record, the model detects different types of arrhythmia on its own. The work is a multimodal cardiovascular foundation model, aimed at ECG interpretation that is both more accurate and more scalable than a rules based reading.

The cohort announcement, at Mayo Clinic AI Platform

Retinal screening

Eye-AI

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in working age adults, and it is visible in the retina long before anyone notices a change in their sight.

What happens in the room

  1. 01

    Capture

    A medical assistant takes the photograph.

  2. 02

    Grade, on the device

    Nouslogic's own model runs on the camera station's processor.

  3. 03

    Read

    A clinician reads the result, on site or remotely.

What it grades

Condition Status
Diabetic retinopathy Grading today
Glaucoma In development
Hypertensive retinopathy In development

Eye-AI moves that screening into the primary care room, and the result comes back in under a minute. A specialist does not have to be there: the console streams the live camera view and the retinal photographs to an ophthalmologist working somewhere else, so a session in a rural clinic can be supervised from an office hours away.

The AI models grade the retinal photograph on the camera station.

The Nouslogic fundus console at full screen. A live camera view of an eye fills the left, its alignment boxes marked in red, with an event log of the capture session beneath it. A numbered column of controls reads SESSION, ALIGN, CAPTURE and ANALYZE. Two retinal photographs sit in the middle, each labelled DR 0, No DR, MEDIUM. A patient information form fills the right edge, holding test data.
The Eye-AI console. Grading runs on the station locally.

Product lines

Technologies

Wireless and connectivity

  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth
  • Bluetooth LE
  • NFC
  • LoRa
  • Amazon Sidewalk
  • RTLS
  • Cellular

Silicon and signal

  • SoC
  • ASIC
  • DSP
  • FPGA
  • A/D and D/A converters
  • Embedded firmware

Intelligence and systems

  • AI/ML
  • Edge AI
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics
  • Cloud data analytics

Smart home and access

Connected health

  • NousRPM

    The remote patient monitoring platform the devices report into

  • Medication dispenser

    The AI dispenser the care loop above is built around

  • Health AImate wearable ECG patch

    Continuous single lead ECG, around the clock, with fall detection

A Nouslogic smart meter reader in a ground box beside a path, its hinged lid standing open. The lid carries a US flag sticker printed MADE IN U.S.A and DESIGN IN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. The unit's own display shows a reading in cubic feet, 0374310 above a smaller 5717, and under it a wireless symbol with NousLogic 102 and Sidewalk -118. Soil and dry leaves around it.
In the ground.
Two photographs of the same brass water meter, side by side with an arrow between them. On the left the meter carries its original brass cap, embossed SENSUS above a serial number. On the right the brass body is unchanged and the cap has been replaced by a white one carrying a small display, a US flag sticker and the printed words MADE IN U.S.A.
An existing brass meter, and the same meter with the reader's cap in its place.

The smart water meter reader replaces an existing meter's cap in 1 minute, with no plumbing removed. It reads the meter continuously where a utility reads it once a month, needs no internet and no cellular service, and reports leaks and tampering.

September 30, 2024 . Nordic Semiconductor Nordic Semiconductor-powered automated smart home solutions support U.S. affordable smart housing initiative Read the 2024 Nordic Semiconductor feature
A home hub in a pale case, three round buttons down its left side and a wireless symbol on its right. The screen is headed Smart RPM Hub, above a large clock reading 01:28 and a date in December 2020. Two boxes sit under the clock, one in red reading No missed dose today and one in green reading Done with today's dose.

The hub gathers the readings from every health sensor in the house. Its own screen shows the day's doses, so a patient can see at a glance whether one was missed, and every reading goes up to the platform for analysis.

December 22, 2020 . Nordic Semiconductor Smart health IoT and AI startup moves medical and public health industry from basic monitoring to automatic high accuracy diagnostics and prevention using data analytics and cellular IoT Read the 2020 Nordic Semiconductor feature
Hoang Nhu at the Nouslogic stand at IFA Berlin with three Google brand ambassadors in Hey Google shirts, holding Nouslogic products: Watchman controller boxes, a smart medical card, a video doorbell, a pill bottle, a smart hub, a display clock and a seven day pill box. The booth signs read Hey Google, Smart Access, and Smart Home-Health Platform for Medicare's Remote Patient Monitoring, and the Nouslogic poster gives the stand number and the Berlin and Las Vegas dates.
The Nouslogic stand at IFA Berlin, September 2019, in partnership with Google brand ambassadors, with the Smart Home-Health Platform for Medicare's RPM products.
Hoang Nhu and the founder and developer of Asian Garden Mall behind a demonstration table inside the mall, in front of pull up banners for the Wellness From Home platform and a Hey Google easel board. Table cards read Smart Access, Smart Prescription and Pill Counter, Vitals and ECG Self-Check Kiosk, NAIL2.0 kiosk, and Remote Patient Monitoring Platform, with annotation arrows naming the Smart ADU security, pharmacy, doctor office, nail store and home health scenarios.
The Nouslogic showcase at Asian Garden Mall in Westminster, California, with Frank Jao, founder and CEO of Bridgecreek Development, the mall's developer.

AI on his Steinway

Piano

He loves the piano and has no time to practice, so AI plays it for him. "No pain, lots of gain, immediate gratification."

how it works

He studied piano before engineering. His friends call his Steinway Spirio his best investment so far: a grand piano that can play its own keyboard. There is no time to practice, so he uses AI and an engineer’s mindset to “cheat & plagiarize”: it listens to YouTube performances, works out which notes were played, at what velocity and tempo, with or without pedals, and hands the Steinway a file it plays back on its own keyboard and soundboard.

The experiment

Chopin, Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2

The pair below is the experiment. The original is Nguyen Viet Trung’s first-round performance at the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw; the playback is the same piece, AI-transcribed, reproduced on the Steinway’s own soundboard rather than a phone speaker.

The AI artworks

February 20, 2026 . UC Irvine

Giving back

On December 17, 2025, Hoang Nhu and his sister, Dr. Trinh Nhu, pledged a transformational gift to UC Irvine’s Samueli School of Engineering. It established the Nhu Family Endowed Fund, a permanent and flexible source of support, and in recognition the department was named the Hoang Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The naming ceremony was held on February 20, 2026.

The department's name in raised white letters on a grey wall indoors, reading UC Irvine, Nhữ Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. A window on the left looks out onto a building under scaffolding and a row of trees.
The department's name on the wall at UC Irvine.
Hoang Nhu holding a framed print of the UC Irvine announcement, standing with three colleagues in front of a UC Irvine Engineering banner. A humanoid robot stands in front of the group and students hold the banner behind them.
With Magnus Egerstedt, Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, Dr. Trinh Nhu, and Professor A. Lee Swindlehurst.
Three men standing side by side on outdoor steps at the engineering school, all facing the camera.
With Henry Samueli and Dean Magnus Egerstedt at the Samueli School of Engineering.

The Nhu family's generosity directly supports our ability to move ideas from lab to market, where innovations can improve lives here in Orange County and beyond.

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering
December 17, 2025 . UC Irvine newsroom Tech entrepreneur and family make transformational pledge to Samueli School of Engineering Read the UC Irvine announcement

The department

The department serves nearly 1,700 students across AI, robotics, wireless communications, embedded systems, circuits and devices, bioelectronics and computer architecture. It is the part of the university where hardware and software are designed together, which is the discipline his own career was built on, and it is pointed at what UCI calls an AI-everywhere direction.

He has served on the school’s Dean’s Leadership Council since November 2025.

Beyond engineering

The giving reaches students outside engineering too. In May 2024, Nouslogic LLC and AI Accommodations sponsored a real estate business plan competition at the UCI Center for Real Estate, in partnership with Frank Jao, for the modular smart housing construction the two companies develop.

Read the Center's announcement

The clearest measure of a career is not what it built. It is what it makes possible for people who were not there.

Hoang Nhu speaking at a clear lectern outdoors. Behind him students hold a large blue banner reading UC Irvine, Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. A humanoid robot stands on the platform in front of the lectern.
At the naming ceremony for the Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 20, 2026.

The missions

Operation of Light is a humanitarian eye care mission at Hue Central Hospital, Facility 2, carried out with ophthalmologists from UC Irvine. It holds free community eye screenings alongside about 150 sight restoring cataract surgeries, and a smaller number of corneal and oculoplastic procedures, over 6 days in September 2026.

His sister, Dr. Trinh Nhu, is among the operating surgeons. Nouslogic is contributing the retinal imaging and AI screening equipment, and sending the engineers who built it.

Programme announcement for Operation of Light Hue 2026, listing the participating surgeons and the September dates
Operation of Light Hue 2026, organised by Hue Central Hospital, Facility 2 with VVI and SEE International.
Two years earlier, in November 2024, the same instinct produced a free community health screening in Westminster, California, run with an AstraZeneca mobile clinic. Blood pressure, ECG and retinal screening, in front of Asian Garden Mall, for anyone who walked up.

Read the coverage of the screening

Hoang Nhu standing beside a mobile clinic van at an outdoor community health screening, next to a table laid out with blood pressure cuffs, monitoring devices and Nouslogic Telehealth leaflets, with two colleagues standing behind him. The van reads Bringing clinical trials to you.
Westminster, California, November 2024.
A technician in gloves holding a handheld retinal camera up to the eye of a woman seated beside the mobile clinic van, while she shields her other eye with her hand. Hoang Nhu stands watching at the left of the frame.
Screening with the handheld camera.

Recorded appearances

Talks and media

Contact

Nouslogic Telehealth Inc.

Hoang Nhu

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Irvine, California, USA

hoanghnhu@nouslogic.com
LinkedIn

Copyright 2026 Hoang Nhu

My acknowledgement to Lan Pham for bringing my (Digital Transformation DSP, IoT, SoC design and now AI) journey online

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