This page contains information about my professional services/activities in organizing, grant evaluating, article reviewing, PhD examination, equality-diversity-inclusivity, popularizing Mathematics, as well as research talks.
Organizing
Organiser of the workshop "Interacting particle systems and Kinetic Models", University of Birmingham, July 2025.
Organiser of the workshop "Interacting particle systems and nonlocal PDEs", University of Birmingham, June 2024.
Co-organiser of the mini-symposium "Evolutionary Dynamics of Prosocial Behaviours under Incentives" at the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE2024), University of Vienna, July 15-18, 2024.
Co-organiser of the session "Computer Algebra Applications in the Life Sciences" at the International Congress on Mathematical Software, Durham University, 2024.
Local co-ordinator (at University of Birmingham) of the Simon Marais Maths Competition, annually since 2022.
Co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Nonreversible processes: theory and applications" at the 14th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications (MCM 2023), Sorbonne University, 26-30 June 2023.
Organizer of the workshop "Interplay of partial differnetial equations and stochastic processes", University of Birmingham, 23 March 2023.
Co-organizer of the worskhop Stochastic/Partial Differential Equations, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, June 2022.
Co-organiser of the reading group on Mathematics of Data Science, University of Birmingham, 2022-
Co-organiser, mini-symposium "Nonreversible processes: Analysis and Computations" at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC 22), University of Bath, 11th-13th April 2022.
Co-organiser, mini-symposium "Social Evolution under Uncertainty" at 8th Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE 2022), University of Reading, 18 to 20 July 2022.
Co-organizer of the session "Wasserstein gradient flows and their applications" at the 13th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, University of Mannheim, August 2021
Co-organizer of the minisymposium "Evolutionary Game Theory under Uncertainty" at the SMB2021- the annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, June 2021.
Co-founder and co-organizer of the Data Science and Computational Statistics Seminar, jointly between School of Mathematics and School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. Birmingham Mathematics Youtube Chanel
Co-organizer of the Analysis Seminar (spring term 2019-2020), School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.
Co-organizer of the mini-symposium 'Different Viewpoints on Multi-Scale Problems' at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Bath, April 2019.
Co-organizer of the IMC Problem Solving Seminar, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, January-March 2017
Co-organizer of the workshop "Analytic approaches to scaling limits for random system", the Junior Hausdorff Trimester Program on Optimal Transport, 2015. See report.
Co-organizer of the reading seminar on large deviation principles, Eindhoven University of Technology 2014
Co-organizer of a series of Wednesday Morning Sessions (February – April, 2014) and of a series of seminars on Hydrodynamic limit of interacting particle systems November 2013 at Centre for Analysis, Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA), Eindhoven University of Technology.
Co-organizer of the ITN-FIRST workshop on the art of presenting science, Eindhoven University of Technology, June 2013
Co-organizer of the ITN-FIRSTmidterm meeting, University of Bath, December 2011
Editoral Board:
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Nature), 2023-present
Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis), 2025-present
Funding evaluator for research councils
I have provided expert assessments for various research councils/organisations including
EPSRC (I am a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College).
UKRI (I am a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College).
Banff International Research Station
VinFuture Prize
Academic promotions for universities in China, France, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI (University of Birmingham)
PhD Examination and promotion
PhD External examiner, Teesside University, 2024.
PhD Internal examiner, University of Birmingham, 2022
Promotion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI)
Referee assessments on EDI for proposals for the Banff Research Station, 2023-present.
I have been a member of the EDI Committee at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham during 2018-2021. In particular, I have promoted the Black Voice Campaign organized by the Guild of Students at the University of Birmingham in 2021.
Outreach and pedagogy
I am passionate about popularising Mathematics and STEM. I have written several popular articles about mathemematical research and activities as well as about my own research contributions. See my research page under the section popular press for more information.
I have delivered the following outreach and educational talk:
In February 2024, I have delivered a talk entitled "Evolution, Game Theory and Uncertainty" at the Birmingham Popular Mathematics Lectures.
Higher Education Futures Institute, University of Birmingham, December 2022, speaker (I delivered an educational talk on Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research)
Industry event "A quantitative approach to healthcare", Center for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicince, University of Birmingham, July 2021.
Maths in Healthcare Hub Industry Engagement Day, University of Birmingham, June 2019.
Journal Review
I have refereed for the following journals in Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Interdisciplinary research:
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Applied Mathematics Letters
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMS)
Acta Mathematica Vietnamica
Applicable Analysis
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Advances in Calculus of Variations
Communications on Mathematical Sciences
Discrete and Continuous Systems - A
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B
Dynamics Games and Applications,
Games
Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
Journal of Statistical Physics
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
Entropy
PLOS Computational Biology
PLOS One
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
International Journal of Game Theory
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Vietnam Journal of Mathematics
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Stochastic Analysis and Applications
Royal Society Open Science
Scientific Reports
SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
Europhyics Letters (EPL)
International Journal of Theoretical Physics
Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations
Book Review:
I have also been regularly invited to review book proposals from Springer, on topics in Advanced Linear Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, etc.
Mathematics Competition for Undergraduate Students
I am passionate about stimulating undergraduate students to participate in mathematical research and pursue a career in academia.
Local co-ordinator at University of Birmingham for the Simon Marais Maths Competition since 2022.
Instructor of the IMC Problem Solving Seminar for Warwick's team for the 24th International Mathematical Competition Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, January-March 2017
Talks at Conferences/Workshops/Departmental Seminars
2025
Conference "Future Algorithms", June 11-12, 2025, invited speaker.
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Exeter June 2025.
ICMS, Edinburgh, workshop "Dimensionality reduction techniques for molecular dynamics" June 2025, speaker
Analysis Seminar, Bielefeld University, May 2025.
VinUni, April 2024
The 2025 AI Governance Modelling workshop, Teesside University, March 2025.
2024
King's College London, Probability Siminar, December 2024.
Applied Probability Seminar, University of Warwick, October 2024.
Conference Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE2024), July 15-18, 2024
Conference "Future Algorithms", July 10-11, 2024.
Conference Equadiff 2024, Karlstad University, 10-14 June, 2024.
University of Southampton, Centre for Operational Research, Management Sciences and Information Systems, May 2024.
VIS coffee talk, Vietnamese Intellectual Society in the UK and Ireland, April 2024
Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University, March 2024.
Birmingham Popular Mathematics Lectures, February 2024.
2023
Annual conferene on Probability Theory, Vietnam National University of Science, December 2023
Vietnam-UK mathematics joint meeting, ICMS, Edinburgh, 4-8 December 2023.
University of Essex, Seminar of the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, November 2023.
2023 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Tokyo August 20-25, 2023.
Workshop "Mean field limits for interacting particle systems: uniform propagation of chaos, phase transitions and applications", Imperial College London, 4-6 July.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology , June 2023.
Workshop "Stochastic process, metastability and applications", 31st May- 2nd June, 2023, Nancy (France)
Department of Mathematics, University of York, May 2023.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, May 2023.
British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, 3rd – 5th April 2023
Applied PDE Seminar, Imperial College London, January 2023
2022
Applied maths seminars, University of California Santa Cruz, November 2022
The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life, University of Trento (virtually), July 2022
4th International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB'22), July 2022
Worskhop Stochastic/Patial Differential Equations, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, June 2022
School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, June 2022
2021
Mini-course in the autumn school "Interacting Particles meet Homogenization and Measure Theory", Karlstad University, Sweden, November 2021.
Optimal transport and Mean field games Seminar, University of South Carolina, October 2021.
3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHub2021), July 2021.
Karlstad Applied Analysis Seminar, Karlstad University (Sweden), June 2021.
The annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, University of California Riverside (USA), June 2021 (I co-organised the mini-symposium "Evolutionary Game Theory Under Uncertainty", giving a contributed talk in the session Population Dynamics and Evolution and chairing a session of contributed talks).
Mathematical Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM, France), April 2021.
2020
The 20th conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2020), July 2020.
Workshop on stochastics analysis and PDEs, University of Birmingham, July 2020 (postposed due to Covid-19).
Seminar on Probablity and Mathematical Statistics, Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, June 2020.
Conference on Interacting Particle Systems, Non-local evolution equations and applications, Oxford June 2020 (postposed due to Covid-19).
Variational formulation for degenerate and non-local PDEs. Departmental seminar at Heriot-Watt University, March 2020.
Statistics of internal equilibria: Evolutionary Game Theory meets Random Polynomial Theory, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Birmingham, February 2020 (postposed due to Covid-19).
2019
On the Expected Number and Distribution of Equilibria in Multiplayer Evolutionary Games. The 19th conference on Artificial Life, Newcastle, July 2019.
Variational formulation for degenerate and non-local PDEs . Workshop Nonlinear processes and their applications, Université Jean Monnet, July 2019.
Thermodynamic Limit of the Transition Rate of a Crystalline Defect. Workshop Small Scales and Homogenisation, Cardiff University, June 2019.
A class of generalized potential games and applications. Mathematics with Robotics Workshop, University of Birmingham, June 2019.
2018
Qualitative and quantitative coarse-graining in molecular dynamics. Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Birmingham, November 2018.
Quantification of coarse-graining errors in Langevin and overdamped Langevin dynamics. Workshop "An Analyst, a Geometer and a Probabilist walk into a bar", Cardiff University, June 2018.
Qualitative and quantitative coarse-graining of Langevin dynamics. Joint Industrial and Applied Mathematics / Algebra & Analysis seminar. University of Nottingham, May 2018.
Statistics of internal equilibria: Evolutionary Game Theory meets Random Polynomial Theory. Bio-mathematics Seminar, Imperial College London, Feb 2018
Large deviation and variational approaches to generalised gradient flows. Université Jean Monnet, January 2018
2017
Interplay between particle systems, large-deviation principle and PDEs, Reading Group Seminar, Imperial College London
Collective behavior of complex systems: where analysis meets probability, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, June 2017.
Mathematical aspects of material defects. School of Computing, Teesside University, February 2017
Qualitative and quantitative coarse-graining of Langevin dynamics. Warwick Agents and Games in Economic Research, University of Warwick, February 2017.
Equilibrium in random evolutionary games: a view from random polynomial theory. Eindhoven University of Technology, January 2017.
2016
How many equilibria does a random evolutionary game have? Applied Maths Seminar, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, 11 Nov. 2016
How many equilibria does a random evolutionary game have? IMA Early Career Mathematicians' Autumn Conference 2016, University of Warwick, November 2016
How many equilibria does a random evolutionary game have? Department of Mathematics, City University of London, November 2016
How many equilibria does a random evolutionary game have? Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, October 2016.
Coarse-graining of defects at finite temperature. Applied PDEs Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, March 2016
Coarse-graining of conservative-dissipatve systems. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, January 2016
On the expected number of internal equilibria in random evolutionary multi-player multi-strategy games, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, January 2016
Coarse-graining of non-equilibrium systems: a probabilistic and variational approach. Seminar of the Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University, January 2016.
2015
Dynamical coarse-graining of conservative-dissipative systems: a variational approach. Analysis Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, November 2015.
Variational approach to coarse-graining of generalized gradient flows, Applied PDE Seminar, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, November 2015.
On assessing the accuracy of defect free energy computations, Workshop Mathematics, mechanics and physics for tomorrow's materials, ICMS Edinburgh, October 2015
Analysis of the expected density of internal equilibria in random evolutionary multi-player multi-strategy games, De Montfort University, September 2015.
GENERIC formulation and asymptotic limits of the relativistic heat equation and the relativistic kinetic Fokker-Planck equation. 7th International Workshop and Summer School on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, 2015.
On assessing the accuracy of defect free energy computations at finite temperature, Mini-workshop Applied Analysis, University of Warwick, May 2015
2014
The two-scale approach to hydrodynamics limits for non-reversible dynamics, 8th European Conference on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems, May 2014
The two-scale approach to hydrodynamics limits for non-reversible dynamics, University of Kansas, March 2014
Microscopic derivation for some GENERIC systems, Wuerzburg University, February 2014 (Poster)
Microscopic derivation for some GENERIC systems, Muenster University, February 2014
Variational methods and up-scaling for a GENERIC system, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, January 2014
2013
Variational methods and up-scaling for a GENERIC system, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, December 2013.
The two-scale approach to hydrodynamic limits for non-reversible dynamics, CASA-day, TU/e, October 2013.
Variational methods and up-scaling for a GENERIC system, RWTH Aachen, July 2013
From chemotaxis movement to an open quantum system: a variational approach, Thermodynamics seminar, ICMS, TU/e, May 2013.
GENERIC and the scale-bridging for the Kramers equation, PhD days in Analysis and Dynamics, Lunteren, the Netherlands April 2013.
2012
GENERIC formulation of the Kramers equation and connection to Large Deviation Principle, Nonlocal Problems, The University of Zurich, December 2012.
GENERIC formulation of the Kramers equation and connection to Large Deviation Principle, CASA-day, TU/e, November 2012.
GENERIC formulation of the Kramers equation and connection to Large Deviation Principle, Thermodynamics seminar, ICMS, TU/e, November 2012.
Optimal transport and Gradient flows, Seminar of Optimization group, Vietnam Institute of Advanced Study in Mathematics, August 2012.
A Hamiltonian-Gradient flow splitting approximation scheme for the Kramers equation, Applied Analysis Reading Group, University of Bath, February-March 2012.
2011
A Hamiltonian–Gradient flow splitting scheme for the Kramers equation. Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology meeting, University of Bath, 13-15 December 2011
A Hamiltonian–Gradient flow splitting scheme for the Kramers equation. Junior Multiscale Mechanics and Probability Meeting, University of Bath, 8 December 2011.
Wasserstein Gradient flow for the Fokker Planck equation and Connection to Large Deviation Principle, Junior Multiscale Meeting, University of Oxford, 2011.