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This is the informal résumé of me (Hai Dao). I was grown up having my curiosity aroused by interesting physics phenomenon and had fortunate to be a friend with some wonderful popular science books-e.g., “Physics for Entertainment” (Vietnamese: Vật lý Vui) written by Yakov Perelman. I decided then to become an engineer in electronic and telecommunication as the kind of works making two devices suddenly “talk” to and “understand” each other wirelessly appeared as a magic and kind of power to me. And so, the life moves on!

Today my research works are in the realm of fiber-optic networks forming the backbone of Internet infrastructure. Roughly speaking, my works aims to find efficient strategies combining protocols, algorithms and architectures for core optical networks under the constraints of spectrum capacity and transmission technologies to accommodate the explosive Internet traffic growth in an optimal manner-i.e., in terms of capacity efficiency, cost and/or energy consumption.

In my opinion, broadband Internet services have transformed everything and its impact has moved beyond simply being an utility to become a necessity. Accessing to broadband services is therefore equivalent to accessing to opportunities and as a telecommunication engineer, I hope that very soon in our country, broadband Internet services can reach the "last" village, the "last" neighborhood and the "last" person.

My recent intellectual interest is in the three-pound thing making everything of the world - BRAIN (neuroscience). I have been fascinated by the BRAIN PBS shows and books of David Eagleman (Brain and Livewired). With the convergence of several technologies, powered by computational sciences, I think we are at the door of decoding the most mysterious things in the world !