Hoa Le Minh is currently a Professor in Optical Communications and the Deputy Head of Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, UK. Previously he was a Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK (2007-2010), a Research Assistant at Siemens AG, Munich, Germany (2002-2004), and a Lecturer in Telecommunications at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam (1999-2001). He is an expert in photonics, optical communications, visible light communications, smartphone technology, signal processing, and intelligent networks. He has published more than 200 articles, in journals, conferences, and book chapters, and received grants from EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU and industry.

Hoa was a former Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) UK and Ireland Chapter. He is a member of EPSRC ICT grant prioritisation panels, and an associate editor for peer-review journals.