Education
PhD in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, National University of Ireland Galway.
MSc in Applied Mathematics (Research Program), National University of Ireland Galway.
MSc in Mathematics (Taught Program), Hanoi National University of Education.
BSc (with Honors) in Mathematics, Can Tho University.
Research Positions, Grants, and Awards
Summer 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); project entitled: “Fast and Efficient Rank-structured Solvers and Preconditioners for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations” (continued); funded by the DOE, Office of Science ($27,300 per two months).
Summer 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); project entitled: “Fast and Efficient Rank-structured Solvers and Preconditioners for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations” (continued); funded by the DOE, Office of Science ($20,000 per two months).
Summer 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); project entitled: “Fast and Efficient Rank-structured Solvers and Preconditioners for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations”; funded by the DOE, Office of Science ($17,500 per two months).
The FernUniversität in Hagen President's Travel Award to attend the 18th Workshop on Numerical Methods for Problems with Layer Phenomena, 24--26 March 2022 in Hagen, Germany.
AY 2020–2021: Awarded a 3-unit teaching release from Holy Names University Faculty Development Program for conducting research beyond the norm.
Summer 2019, Faculty Trainee, Google New York Headquarters, The Google Applied Computing Series project: the pilot program for two college-level introductory computer science and data science courses and a machine learning intensive. (Skills trained Python, Pynum, SQL).
The Travel Award for junior researchers to attend the Conference on Computational Mathematics and Applications, The University of Nevada Las Vegas, Oct. 2019.
The Travel Award (from Lawrence Berkeley Lab) for junior researchers to attend the International Conference on the Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications, University of Minnesota, Jul. 2019.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Award for US junior researchers to attend the International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications, UBC, Vancouver, Aug. 2017.
A two-week research visit in September 2013, Tufts University, funded by the Irish Research Council Grant No. RS/2011/179 (5000 euros per 2 weeks).
2011–2015, Ph.D. project entitled: “Preconditioning techniques for singularly perturbed differential equations”. The project was funded by the Irish Research Council Grant No. RS/2011/179 (96,000 euros per four years).
2009–2011, M.Sc. project entitled: “Handling Nonlinearity and Uncertainty in Drug Delivery Modelling” funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under their Research Frontiers Programme grant SFI RFP/CMS/1254 (37,500 euros per 18 months).
[2006--2008] My M.S. study at Hanoi National University of Education was fully funded (tuition fees and stipends) by Cantho University Faculty Development Program.
[2001--2005] My B.S study was fully funded (tuition fees and stipends) by the Vietnamese Government Fellowship for Merit Students. A 4-year-row being an excellent student awarded by Cantho University from 2001 to 2005.
[2003] The Odon Vallet Scholarship for a university merit student (Founded by Prof Odon Vallet of the Sorbonne University in Paris and Prof Tran Thanh Van).