VSEG member footprint

April - June 2024

• Danh-Tai Hoang published paper "Prediction of DNA methylation-based tumor types from histopathology in central nervous system tumors with deep learning" on Nature Medicine. (link)

January - March 2024

• Long Chu, on behalf of Vietnamese academics in Canberra, addressed Vietnam’s Prime Minister with some recommendations on enhancing cooperation between Vietnam and Australia in science and research. The Prime Minister agreed with the recommendations and tasked the Ministry of Science and Technology with implementing them (link).

• Long Chu and the VASEA board of directors showcased research outcomes and impacts to Vietnam’s Prime Minister and his cabinet (link)

• Thang Do published paper "Insider perspectives on Southeast Asia’ clean energy transition" on Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. (link)

• Thang Do and co-authors published paper "From dynamics to sustainability: Modeling the shrimp (Penaeus chinensis) fishery in Shandong, China " on Ecological Modelling. (link)

September - December 2023

• Long Chu presented CBAM: What does it mean for your business to EUROCHARM member (link)

• Long Chu published research on the economics of emissions in rice production in Vietnam (link).

• Long Chu, Quentin Grafton, and Harry Nelson published a paper estimating the impact of wildfire on break-even forest-based carbon in 215 countries, including Vietnam (link).

• Long Chu, Quentin Grafton, and Harry Nelson published a paper to estimate the cost of achieving the COP26 Glasgow forest agreement, halting forest loss, including in forest-rich countries like Vietnam (link).

• Thang Do discussed in the launching of the 4th annual Southeast Asia Climate Outlook: 2023 Survey Report. (link)

July - September 2023

• Thang Do organized a training course for  MPs of Vietnam in Canberra and Melbourne on climate change and energy transition 

• Long Chu delivered a guest lecture to Vietnam’s MPs on the carbon market in Australia and the lessons for Vietnam. 

• Long Chu was elected as the vice president of the Vietnam-Australia Scholars and Experts Associations, in charge of policy, trade, and investment in the public sector.

• Thang Do presented Phasing out coal power in a developing country context: Insights from Vietnam at Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Congress 2023, Waseda University, Tokyo, 29-30 August 2023.

• Thang Do presented Emerging issues of climate change and energy transition in ASEAN and Vietnam, Pre-course Workshop of Masterclass for Climate Change and Energy Transition for Vietnamese MPs, Quang Ninh 13-14 July 2023.

• Thang Do convened and taught into Masterclass on Climate Change and Energy for Senior Vietnamese Members of Parliament Delegation, Jul-Aug 2023.

• Thang Nam Do and Frank Jotzo met with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to discuss Australia Vietnam cooperation on energy transition.

• Minh Bui won Eureka Prize for genomics software that armed humanity against COVID-19. (link)

April - June 2023

• Long Chu, Thang Do, Lien Le, Quoc Anh Ho, Khoi Dang,  Thai Nguyen and other authors published a research report on the country assessment of CBAM impact on Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu and Lien Le, with Nhuong Tran and Chan Chin Yee, have their work on modelling Vietnam’s blue transformation under climate change published  by WorldFish (link)

• Thang Do and co-authors published paper "Harnessing solar and wind for sustainable cross-border electricity trade in Greater Mekong Subregion" on Frontiers in Environmental Science. (link)

• Thang Do and co-authors puclished paper "Phasing out coal power in a developing country context: Insights from Vietnam" on Energy Policy. (link)

• Thang Do and co-authors published paper "Is ASEAN ready to move to multilateral cross-border electricity trade?" on Asia Pacific Viewpoint. (link)

• Thang Do published "Decarbonisation is a trade imperative for Vietnam" on East Asia Forum. (link)

• Thang Do presented Impacts of CBAM on Vietnam at the Energy Transition Partnership/Vietnam MONRE Workshop Impacts of CBAM on Vietnam, 8 April 2023.

• Thang Do interviewed by Vietnam News on Vietnam Australia potential cooperation in energy transition, reposted by the Australian Ambassador to Australia and his counterpart. (link)

January - March 2023

• Long Chu and co-authors constructed a model for optimal post-border surveillance against invasive pests to protect a valuable nature reserve and island asset with a showcase application to Barrow Island - Australia (link).

• Long Chu and co-authors published a modelling scenario analysis of fish supply and demand for food and nutrition security in Bangladesh (link).

• Long Chu presented at the Fulbright Vietnam's conference on Vietnam SME and standard compliance (link)

• Thang Do discussed the paper Government Guarantee in the Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Development of the Energy Transition Mechanism at the Asian Development Bank virtual Conference on Sustainable Finance for Asia’s Net Zero Transition 6-8 March 2023.

•  Thang Do presented Harnessing Solar and Wind for Sustainable Cross-border electricity trade in Greater Mekong Subregion, APEC Workshop Bangkok, 11-13 January 2023.

•  Thang Do presented at “Net Zero Emission Achievement for Vietnam” forum, Hanoi, Vietnam Environmental Economics Association, 12 January 2023.

October - December 2022

• Long Chu taught 'Introduction to Applied Economic Modelling' at Vietnam's Institute of Fisheries Economics and Planning from 12-16 December (teaching material)

• Thang Do and Long Chu speak at the inception workshop of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism impact evaluation (link, link, link) 

• Long Chu and co-authors quantified anthropogenic and climate change impacts on surface water in Murray Darling Basin (Australia) in the prestigious journal  'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A' - the world's oldest scientific journal in  English (link). This research has been specially mentioned in 'the  Conversation'  (link) and in Global Water Forum (link)

• Hoa Nguyen, Long Chu and co-authors published a dynamic-spatial model for infectious diseases with a showcase application to FMD in Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu talked with the State-run Vietnam News on Vietnam's economic growth in 2022 and key policy priorities (link)

• Hoa Nguyen takes on a role of an editor of PLOS ONE, a Q1-ranked open-access journal (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published a paper analysing fundamental supply and demand trends of fishery products in middle-income countries with a showcase application to Egypt (link).

July - September 2022

• Long Chu and co-authors published a paper on balancing the economy and the COVID19 health care cost in regard to social restrictions (link) 

• Long Chu and co-authors published a model to quantify resilience in fisheries (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published a paper on operationalising marketable blue carbon (link) 

• Thang Do and co-authors published policy options for offshore wind power in Vietnam (link) 

• Hoa Nguyen and co-authors published a paper on a cost-benefit analysis of Vietnam's 2006-2010 foot-and-mouth disease control program (link)

April - June 2022

• Long Chu was invited to speak to the leaders of Quang Nam province on its Master Development Plan. VPEG members can join Zoom meeting on 4th and 5th June (password: Abcd12345)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a World Bank report analysing the agricultural land use and sustainable livelihoods in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta under different development scenarios (forthcoming)

• Thang Do and co-authors published a series of policy papers in the Policy Forum of the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society on the topics of boosting Southeast Asia’s cross-border electricity trade (link), and harnessing offshore wind for green growth in Vietnam (link) 

• Hai Nguyen presented on modelling tree biomass and carbon yield at the kickoff Global EverGreening Alliance’s nature-based carbon programme in Nairobi, Kenya (link)

• Chung Tran presented at seminars at the Australian Treasury and a workshop at the Reserve Bank of Australia

• Chung Tran presented at a Webinar on "New growth models after Covid-19, international experiences and lessons for Vietnam" for the Academy of Politics Region II, III of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho city

• Tai Hoang and co-authors published a computational framework, ENLIGHT-DeepPT, that predicts patient response to cancer treatment from histopathology images (link)

• Toan Nguyen and co-authors presented the work entitled "Climate Change, Cold Waves, Heat Waves, and Mortality: Evidence from a Lower Middle-Income Country" at the Australasian Development Economics Workshop at the University of Sydney

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "AliSim: A Fast and Versatile Phylogenetic Sequence Simulator for the Genomic Era" (link)

January - March 2022

• Long Chu was interviewed by the Vietnam News Representative in Sydney on Australia - Vietnam FDI flows (link)

• Long Chu presented advanced rules for Cost-Benefit Analysis in AARES 2022

• Long Chu and Hai Nguyen (with Quentin Grafton) published a methodology and the result of cross-country assessments of break-even green carbon prices in 166 countries (link)

• Hai Nguyen and Long Chu (with co-authors)  published the finding of a triple-win approach to blue carbon in the Mekong River Delta (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a framework for reviewing laws and policies for climate resilience in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a framework for analyzing the institutional transition towards climate resilience in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta (link)

• Phan Le published a paper on Capital Misallocation and State Ownership Policy in Vietnam (link) 

• Hoa Nguyen was interviewed by Science Dev Net about the use of micro-estimates of wealth data in tackling poverty (link) 

• Tai Hoang and co-authors published a transcriptomics-based computational approach, ENLIGHT, that identifies clinically relevant genomic interactions and uses them to predict patients’ response to a variety of therapies in multiple cancer types (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "nQMaker: Estimating Time Nonreversible Amino Acid Substitution Models" (link) 

October - December 2021

• Long Chu was interviewed by Vietnam News on the complementary economic relationship between Vietnam and Australia (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published OECD commissioned research, ranking countries in terms of the cost-efficiency of forest carbon sequestration (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a summary of rural adaptation to climate change in China and Vietnam (link)

• Khoi Dang provided technical supports to Vietnam’s Institute of Agricultural Market and Institution Research to conduct cost-benefit analysis of agricultural-based renewable energy models at the household level in An Giang province 

• Thang Do published an article on adding substance to Vietnam’s climate commitments in East Asia Forum (link) 

• Thang Do contributed to the policy discussion on carbon pricing insights from Vietnam in the Policy Forum of the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society (link) 

• Thang Do and co-authors published findings on low-cost, low-emission 100% renewable electricity in Southeast Asia supported by pumped hydro storage (link) 

• Thang Do and co-authors published the study on the success of Vietnam in solar and wind power development and policy implications for the other ASEAN countries (link)

• Hai Thanh Nguyen published a paper on FDI spillovers in Vietnam (link)

• Phan Le published a book chapter on cybersecurity in a one-party state - Policies and implications for Vietnam's economy and online freedom (link) 

• Hoa Nguyen published a paper on Optimal Surveillance against bioinvasion in Ecological Application (link)  

• Hoa Nguyen published a paper on Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam (link)  

• Nhan Le and co-authors published a paper on “Does shareholder litigation affect the corporate information environment?" (link) 

• Nhan Le and co-authors published a paper on “Local Information Environment and Accounting Fraud” (link) 

• Nhan Le and co-authors published a paper on “Intra-industry Spillover Effects: Evidence from Bankruptcy Filings” (link) 

July - September 2021

• Long Chu, Chung Tran, Hoa Nguyen, Nhan Le, Thang Do, Phuc To, Minh Bui, Hieu Nguyen, Tai Hoang and some ANU academics requested Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs to consider further foreign aid for the Astra Zeneca vaccine to Vietnam (link). DFAT responded, promising concrete actions (link).

• Long Chu and Quentin Grafton published a new research methodology for monetising climatic risk in water supply, with a showcase example of the water supply in the Australian Capital Territory (link)

• Lien Le joined multidisciplinary expert groups to support the development and promulgation of Vietnam's National Green Growth Strategy for the 2021-2030 period and vision towards 2050 (link)

• Khoi Dang, Lien Le and co-authors published a framework to assess the performance of climate-smart rice production system in the Mekong River Delta (link)

• Khoi Dang supported Vietnam's National University of Agriculture to develop socio-economic master plan for Dien Bien province 2021-30 and a vision to 2050

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Assessing Confidence in Root Placement on Phylogenies: An Empirical Study Using Nonreversible Models for Mammals" (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "QMaker: Fast and Accurate Method to Estimate Empirical Models of Protein Evolution" (link)

April - June 2021

• Long Chu was interviewed by VOV on the new government and National Assembly of Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu spoke to Vietnam’s Ambassador to Australia on the connection between oversea Vietnamese and their homeland (link)

• Long Chu, Chung Tran, Thang Do, Hoa Nguyen, Nhan Le and some academics were invited to provide feedback on the drafted Congress reports of the Communist Party of Vietnam (link)

• Khoi Dang joined Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED)  under Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City as a research associate (link)

January - March 2021

• Long Chu, Hoa Nguyen, Khoi Dang, and co-authors published a research paper about optimising agricultural land protection for economic efficiency in Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published research findings on the health and economic cost of early versus delayed suppression measures in Australia (link)

• Khoi Dang, Lien Le and co-authors published an econometric model to assess the impact of farmer’s adaptation to drought and salinity intrusion on rice yield in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (based on the data of an ACIAR project) (link)   

• Hai Nguyen presented “Potential mangrove restoration and blue carbon projects in South-East Asia” with the participation of Murdoch University, ANZ bank Australia and 30 ANZ bank clients across South-East Asia.

• Hai Thanh Nguyen published a paper on intersectoral linkages and imports of Vietnam using an input-output approach (link) 

• Hoa Nguyen was interviewed by the ABC about Vietnam's Communist Party congress meeting (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Want to track pandemic variants faster? Fix the bioinformatics bottleneck" (link) 

October - December 2020

• Long Chu, Khoi Dang, Thai Nguyen and other team members from the Theoretical Committee of the Vietnam Communist Party submitted the final report of ACIAR funded project on ‘a New Economic Growth Model for Vietnam’ (link)

• Long Chu was interviewed on the COVID19 driven new normal of the world economy and policy implications for Vietnam – Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (link).

•  Khoi Dang and co-authors published an econometric model to assess the effect of trusts and land administration on economic outcomes in Vietnam (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors submitted the final report of ACIAR funded project in rural adaptation to climate change (link)

• Thang Do discussed Vietnam's pioneering post-pandemic carbon pricing in the East and Asia forum (link)   

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Primate phylogenomics uncovers multiple rapid radiations and ancient interspecific introgression" (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Newly Emerged Serotype 1c of Shigella flexneri: Multiple Origins and Changing Drug Resistance Landscape" (link) 

July - September 2020

• Long Chu  and Quentin Grafton published research findings on the value-add of irrigation water in Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published research findings on water pricing principles for policy-makers (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a framework to analyse the land use dynamics in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta

• Thang Do contributed to a series of policy discussion on renewable energy in Vietnam in ISEAS (link) and in the Policy Forum of the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society (link) and East Asia Forum (link)

• Thang Do and co-authors published  a review of key environmental challenges faced by Asia and the growing opportunities for a transition to a cleaner economy powered by zero-emission energy sources (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution" (link) 

• Nhan Le and co-authors published a paper on "Local Bankruptcy and Geographic Contagion in the Bank Loan Market” (link) 

April - June 2020

• Long Chu was interviewed by Vietnam News Representative in Sydney on the trade pact between the EU and Vietnam and the implication on Vietnam-Australia economic relationship (link)

• Khoi Dang supported Vietnam's National University of Agriculture to develop a business plan for Vietnam National Coffee Corporation (VInacafe) for 2020-2025 and  vision to 2030

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on new methods to calculate concordance factors for Phylogenomic datasets (link) 

January - March 2020

• Lien Le joined multidisciplinary expert groups to support the development and promulgation of the Master Plan on Sustainable and Climate-resilient Agricultural development in the Mekong River Delta to 2030, a vision toward 2045 (link)

• Khoi Dang supported AMI to develop agricultural development plan for Cao Bang province for 2021-25 and a vision to 2030

• Thang Do contributed to the discussion on bold actions needed to address Vietnam's air pollution in the East Asia Forum (link)

• Hai Nguyen and co-authors published a review paper on mangrove restoration projects and programs in Vietnam (link). This paper was cited in IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 5 (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era" (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "GHOST: Recovering Historical Signal from Heterotachously Evolved Sequence Alignments" (link)

October - December 2019

• Long Chu, Suiwah Leung, and Crawford School logistic team organised a one-day conference on "Vietnam: political and economic opportunities and challenges". Speakers include a current economic adviser of Vietnam’s Prime Minister. All welcome, lunch is provided, and confirmation is essential (link).

• Long Chu addressed Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung during his visit to Australia (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published quantitative methodology and result findings on the trade of conservation efficiency and distributive equity in forest conservation in Vietnam (link)

• Khoi Dang and co-authors published a book overviewing the Vietnamese’s livelihood in the context of economic integration 1990-2018 (in English)

• Phan Le contributed to the book entitled "Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move" (link) 

July - September 2019

• Long Chu and Quentin Grafton published a new research methodology and findings on the trade-off between long-term and short-term objectives in water pricing (link)

• Thang Do joined the senior advisory for a World Bank project “Vietnam’s Water Governance” (link)   

• Phan Le contributed to a policy discussion on Vietnam's lagging 5G ambitions (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "The Prevalence and Impact of Model Violations in Phylogenetic Analysis" (link) 

April - June 2019

• Long Chu and co-authors published a quantitative methodology for optimal budgeting and portfolio allocation for biosecurity measures, with a showcase example of farm-animal diseases in Australia (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published a theoretical framework for quantifying resilience in practical decision-making (link)

January - March 2019

• Long Chu and co-authors published a quantitative model for analysing fish supply and demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a showcase of Zambian fishery sector (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Polymorphism-Aware Species Trees with Advanced Mutation Models, Bootstrap, and Rate Heterogeneity" (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Combined transcriptome and proteome profiling reveals specific molecular brain signatures for sex, maturation and circalunar clock phase" (link) 

January - December 2018

• Long Chu and Tom Kompas published a new methodology of using artificial intelligence to measure the maximum economic yield in fishery (link)

• Long Chu, Khoi Dang, Thang Do and co-authors published a new participatory method and findings for managing systemic water risks in Vietnam (link)

• Long Chu was invited to address Vietnam’s Prime Minister in Canberra (link)

• Long Chu and co-authors published a new quantitative method for optimising environmental water release for resilience, with a showcase of the Murray Darling Basin in Australia (link)

• Thang Do discussed Vietnam’s challenges to tackling the country’s stark water trade-offs in the Policy Forum of Asia & the Pacific Policy Society (link)  

• Hai Nguyen and her team at Murdoch University, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Chittagong University Bangladesh (Project No. CRRP2017-FP12-J.Harper, project leader: Richard J. Harper) secured funding for a project on the feasibility of implementing payment for mangrove blue carbon in Vietnam and Bangladesh. The project was funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (link).

• Phan Le discussed Vietnam’s new internet law will make the economy lag in the East Asia Forum (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "MPBoot: Fast phylogenetic maximum parsimony tree inference and bootstrap approximation" (link)

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes" (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "Complex Models of Sequence Evolution Require Accurate Estimators as Exemplified with the Invariable Site Plus Gamma Model" (link) 

• Minh Bui and co-authors published a paper on "UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation" (link)