Keynote Speakers

Dr. Mattias Larsson is paediatric physician at Family Medical Practice, Hanoi and Associate Professor at Global Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm as well as director for Training and Research Academic Centre (TRAC), Sweden – Vietnam, a collaboration between 5 Swedish and 3 Vietnamese universities. He has a medical degree from Uppsala University and defended his PhD 2003 at Karolinska Institutet with the thesis "Antibiotic use and resistance: Assessing and improving utilization and provision of antibiotics and other drugs in Vietnam". He has teaching and research experience from Peru, Bolivia, India, Tanzania, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam.

He has been the main supervisor for 2 PhD students and co-supervisor for another 2 students all who have defended their thesis. He has worked with USAID and Clinton foundation implementing HIV care and treatment program in Vietnam as well as Senior Clinical Researcher at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi. During the Ebola epidemic he was working in Liberia.

Current research includes antibiotic resistance and hospital acquired infections in Vietnamese and South East Asian hospitals and paediatric HIV. He has written more then 50 scientific articles as well as some newspaper articles.

Dr. Peter Tong was an aerospace engineer prior to becoming a teacher. His education in Electrical Engr. (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engr. (M.Sc.) and Aerospace Engr. (Ph.D.) and Dip. Ed. allows him to integrate practical real life engineering experience into the classroom.

He has taught in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and is currently teaching in China. He pioneered the Big Data Analytics course and developed Aerospace Engineering course for high school.

He is a member of the program committee to the International Big Data and Analytics Educational Conferences, Watson Analytics Global Academics Network (WAGAN) and is on the Ad-Hoc IBM Academic Advisory Board.