CURRICULUM VITAE
Education and academic degrees
1990: Bachelor, Vinh University, Vietnam.
1999: PhD, Vinh University, Vietnam, PhD thesis title: "Roughly Convex Functions and Stability of Generalized Convex Functions with respect to Linear Disturbances". (The thesis was officially recognized by the University of Lisbon, Portugal and University of São Paulo, Brasil).
Postdoc
2000: The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Former Positions
Dec. 1990 - March 2000: Lecturer in Mathematics at Vinh University, Vietnam.
March 2000 - Nov. 2020: Researcher (principal researcher since 2011, senior researcher since 2017, Associate Professor since 2009), Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Vietnam.
March 2013-Nov.2020: Head of the Department of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Institute of Mathematics, VAST.
2009-2014: Researcher, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2001 - 2015: The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Germany (visiting researcher), FU Berlin (visiting researcher), Germany.
2001-2004: International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (Junior associate, research fellow).
2017-2019 visiting professor, University of São Paulo, Brasil.
2020-2021 visiting professor, Higher School of Electronics and Computer Science, South Ural State University, Russia.
Present Positions
Dec. 2020 - present: associate professor, Faculty of Applied Science, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.
Dec. 2021 - present: Director of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IMACS), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.
Research areas: Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, Digital Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Scientific Computing
Current research interests: Optimization approaches for computational geometry and digital geometry and applications in computer graphics, object detection, and robotics.