“It is not our goal to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what clearly lies at hand.”
― Thomas Carlisle
Quoc Van Tran, Lecturer
Department of Mechatronics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Contact info. tvquoc9790{at}gmail{dot}com; quoc.tranvan{at}hust{dot}edu{dot}vn;
Offfice: C7-M.701, Lab: C7-M.802
No.1 Dai Co Viet street, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
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Research interests: networked systems, distributed optimization, and robotics.
Education
Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2021: PhD. in mechanical engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. Advisor: Prof. Hyo-Sung Ahn
Sept. 2013 - Aug. 2015: M.S. in mechatronics , School of Mechatronics, GIST, Korea. Advisor: Prof. Jeha Ryu
Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2013: B.S. in mechatronics (honor program), Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. Advisor: Prof. Nguyen Van Khang
Experiences
Sept. 2022 - current: Lecturer, Department of Mechatronics, School of Mechanical Engineering, HUST, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Sept. 2021 - Aug. 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, KAIST Institute for Robotics (Department of Mechanical Engineering), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. Host Prof. Jinwhan Kim
May 2016 - Sept. 2017: Research Engineer with the Viettel Research and Development Institute (VRD), Viettel Group, Vietnam.
Sept. 2016 - Feb. 2016: Control Engineer with P&S Mechanics co., ltd. (Walkbot), Seoul, Korea
Awards
Outstanding Research Award, the School of Mechanical Engineering, GIST, in 2021.
The Second Prize in the Essay Writing Contest of GIST's Language Education Center (LEC), 2021.
Best Student Paper Award in the ICCAS 2018.
Denso Scholarship, awarded by Denso Manufacturing Vietnam Company, Nov. 2013.
Intel Vietnam Engineering Scholarship, awarded by Intel Manufacturing Vietnam, 2012.
Lotte Scholarship for Excellent Academic Result, awarded by Lotte Group, 2012.
The Second Prizes in National Olympiad Competition in Mechanics awarded by Vietnam Minister of Education in 2011 and 2012.
Editorial Services
Associate Editor: International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS, SCIE Q2)
Review Services
ASME Journal, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST), IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), Nonlinear Dynamics, IJCAS, International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Control Engineering Practice (CEP)
ICRA, CDC, ACC, CCTA, ICCA, IFAC confers., ICCAS, etc.
Activities and Seminars
Invited seminars at BITS, Dongseo University, Busan, Jan. 21-22, 2025.
Invited Talk at the School Mechanical Engineering, HUST, Oct. 28, 2022. Presentation file.
Seminar at the Group of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechatronics, SME, HUST, Aug. 29, 2022. Presentation file
Visiting DCASL, GIST, June 16-17, 2022. presentation slides
Section Chair (Networked Control) at the 2022 American Control Conference, June 1.