Advisors
Viet Long Nguyen
Deputy General Director - Becamex IDC; Director of Smart City Office of Binh Duong province
Viet Long Nguyen
Deputy General Director - Becamex IDC; Director of Smart City Office of Binh Duong province
- Director of Smart City Office of Binh Duong province, Vietnam
- Vice Chairman of the scientific council of National Research Institute of Applied Mechanics & Informatics - Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology.
Mathematical Engineer and PhD in Management Sciences, Dr. Nguyen Viet Long is currently (1) the Deputy CEO of Becamex Corporation, one of the leading Vietnamese developers in industrial parks, infrastructure, urban area & services, and (2) the Director of the Smart City Office of Binh Duong province in Vietnam, coordinating breakthrough strategic projects for the socio-economic development of the province.
Dr. Long is the former member of the scientific board of University Paris - Dauphine, and the Academic Assembly of Paris Sciences & Letters - community of 19 universities and institutes in Paris. He has been lecturing and conducting research internationally in management / economics in the U.S., France, Germany, Netherlands, China, Vietnam, and etc. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the scientific council of National Research Institute of Applied Mechanics & Informatics – Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology.
R&D / Teaching fields: Regional Socio-Economic for 4.0 - Smart City, International Management, Management Sciences.
Thuc Duy Vu
Co-Founder & CEO of Kambria, USA
Thuc Duy Vu
Co-Founder & CEO of Kambria, USA
Co-Founder & CEO of Kambria, USA
Dr. VU Thuc (Vu Duy Thuc) is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University at the age of 28. He is the co-founder of Ohmnilab (a firm dedicated to “reinventing traditional robotics development”) at San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mr. VU Thuc currently is a Professor in John Von Neumann, HCM City National University. In 2017, Mr. VU Thuc was nominated as one of the most 40 influential people (under 40 years old) in Silicon, San Francisco (based on Business Journal).
His Kambria is a blockchain-based platform that encourages research and design collaboration in the robotics world, which is very famous.
He founded and co-founded a number of tech/AI start-ups such as Umbala, Kantago, Tappy, Kinghtscope, ELSA. He is also a co-founder of Vietseeds Scholarship Fund for the poor student in Vietnam.
Ngoc Anh Tran
Associate Professor at School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA
Ngoc Anh Tran
Associate Professor at School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA
Associate Professor at School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA
Anh Tran is an associate professor at SPEA, specializing in the governance issues of developing countries. Tran’s current research focuses on transparency, tax evasion, corruption, political networks, and their economic and social outcomes. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Policy and other leading academic journals.
For the past five years, Tran has served as director of the Vietnam Initiatives at IU, a global think tank on development policies for Vietnam. He is also co-founder and director of the Vietnam Young Leaders Award, a scholarship program that brings exceptional government officials from Vietnam to the United States for postgraduate degrees.
Tran frequently works as consultant for reform initiatives by national governments, the United Nations and the World Bank, and has lived and worked in Russia, France, and Australia. He has participated in UNDP Academic Fellowship, Asia Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Program, and the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s Research Council. Tran is co-founder of the International Society of Vietnamese Economists.
Thanh Hung Pham
Vice Chairman at CENGROUP, Vietnam
Thanh Hung Pham
Vice Chairman at CENGROUP, Vietnam
Vice Chairman at CENGROUP, Vietnam
Pham Thanh Hung, born in 1972, is currently Vice Chairman of Century Real Estate Corporation (Cenland), one of the largest real estate brokers in the real estate market. He also holds the position of Chairman of the Rising star media, JSC.
Before Cenland, Mr.Hung played important roles as managers at many companies including: Son Tra Joint Stock Company, EPIC, Toyota Vietnam… Mr.Hung has a master’s degree in business administration. He is also well-known as a “shark” in Shark Tank Vietnam, a famous reality TV show.
Viet Hung Tran
CEO Gotit, USA
Viet Hung Tran
CEO Gotit, USA
Dr. Hung Tran is the founder of Got It, Inc., an AI tech startup developing the world’s first Knowledge as a Service (KaaS) platform to instantly connect a knowledge seeker with a vetted expert for an interactive and personalized explanation. Got It is led by an experienced executive team including former executives from tech giants like Google, Lyft, Oracle, Rakuten, etc., and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with an engineering office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The company has raised over $20M in funding from well-known investors in Silicon Valley like Capricorn Investment Group who is also an early investor of SpaceX, Tesla, and PlanetLabs.
Dr. Hung Tran received the U.S. Government's VEF Fellowship in 2007 and obtained his Ph.D. in computer science focusing on AI/data mining and big data analytics from the University of Iowa. Prior to the Fellowship, he served as the leader of Vietnam OpenCourseWare Project working with MIT and Rice University to build a national scale open courseware program from inception to launch serving millions of college students in Vietnam. Currently, Dr. Tran serves as a member of the Advisory Group for Vietnam Prime Minister's National Committee for Education and Training Reform, and as a member of the Council of School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology where he got his bachelor of engineering in information technology. Dr. Tran is a recipient of numerous national and international technology and entrepreneurship awards.
Duc Khuong Nguyen
President & CEO of AVSE Global; Deputy Director for Research, IPAG Business School, France
Duc Khuong Nguyen
President & CEO of AVSE Global; Deputy Director for Research, IPAG Business School, France
Dr. Duc Khuong Nguyen holds a MSc and a PhD in Finance from the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) and obtains his HDR (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in Management Sciences in June 2009. He also completed the “Leaders in Development” program at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education (2013).
In January 2013, he joined IPAG Business School as Professor of Finance and Deputy Director for Research. Previously, he served as Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Finance and Information Systems at ISC Paris Business School, as Lecturer at Grenoble Graduate Institute of Business, and as Research and Teaching Assistant at EM Lyon Business School.
Dr. Nguyen is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, a Visiting Professor at Vietnam National University, Hanoi – International School and was a Research Associate at the Department of Finance, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2011-2015). His principal research areas concern emerging markets finance, energy finance, volatility modeling and risk management in international capital markets.
His most recent articles are forthcoming and published in refereed journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of International Economics, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and World Economy.
Christy LE
Founder of Alabaster, Vietnam & USA
Christy LE
Founder of Alabaster, Vietnam & USA
Mrs. Christy Le (Lê Diệp Kiều Trang) is Founder of Alabaster, a company that invests in founders building radical solutions for problems that can have a positive, planet-level impact. Christy focuses on working with Vietnamese entrepreneurs and growing the startup ecosystem in Vietnam.
Previously, she served as CEO of Go-Viet, an affiliate of GOJEK Group, which is an on-demand multi-service platform providing a range of services including transportation, logistics, food delivery and payments.
Before Go-Viet, she served as Country Director for Vietnam at Facebook. In her role, she led the team to focus on driving greater value and support for businesses across a number of industries in Vietnam, including eCommerce, consumer goods and services, financial services, technology, and telecommunications.
Prior to Facebook, Christy was the Managing Director of Fossil Vietnam and VP of Operations of Fossil Group, which acquired Misfit for $260M in 2015. At Misfit, a Silicon Valley startup that developed and marketed a number of award-winning wearable and smart home technology products, she was the CFO and COO from the company’s founding until its acquisition. The company leveraged its R&D and operations teams in Vietnam, China and the US to quickly grow to be a global leader in wearables in less than three years. Prior to Misfit, she was a consultant at McKinsey and an investment banker at HSBC.
Christy graduated Double First in Economics at Oxford (BA & MPhil) and as a Valedictorian and a Legatum Fellow at MIT Sloan. She is passionate about her two kids, working with amazing teams, and engaging in projects that seek to maximize human potential.
Phuong Mai Nguyen
Associate Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Phuong Mai Nguyen
Associate Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Dr. Nguyen-Phuong-Mai is Associate Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences where she does research and teaches Cross-Cultural Management. In the last few years, she has taken interest in cultural neurosciences together with her study at King's College London in a Master program on Applied Neuroscience. Her latest book Cross-Cultural Management with Insights from Brain Science incorporates contribution from other fields to the discussion. For example: “Do genes contribute to cultural values and leadership skills?"; "Can one develop a multicultural brain?"; "How change management can be successful by knowing how the brain works?"; "What is neuromarketing?"; "Can mirror neurons influence teamwork?" Since the date of release, she has been invited to keynote at multiple conferences.
On the business side, Dr. Nguyen-Phuong-Mai runs her own training agency Culture Move and designs tailor-made programs for universities and companies. In Vietnam, she is known as the author of two best-sellers: “Toi La Mot Con Lua” and “Con Duong Hoi Giao”. She communicates as a public figure here.
Thuy Duong Nguyen
Chairman, EY Consulting Vietnam, Vice Chairman, Vietnam Fintech Association
Thuy Duong Nguyen
Chairman, EY Consulting Vietnam, Vice Chairman, Vietnam Fintech Association
Chairman, EY Consulting Vietnam, Business Acceleration Leader, EY Financial Services ASEAN, Vice Chairman, Vietnam Fintech Association
Duong is the EY Financial Services ASEAN Business Acceleration Leader, Chairman of EY Consulting
Vietnam. Duong also serves as Vice Chairman of Vietnam Fintech Association; She is listed as one of the
biggest Fintech influencers in Vietnam by Fintechnews Singapore. Duong is also an active member of APEC
Business Advisory Council (ABAC).
Duong has nearly 20 years of experience in audit and advisory with EY Vietnam and Australia, serving
prestigious banks and financial institutions. Overseas and local experience did accumulate for Duong an
outstanding set of leading and managing skills as well as practical professional knowledge.
Apart from being Lead Audit Partner for various big clients (banking, finance leasing, securities, funds andfund management companies), Duong is also the Lead Partner for advisory services for financial institutions in Vietnam and Laos (i.e. due diligence for foreign acquirers of local organizations’ stake, local laws and compliance risk assessment, risk management, business and digital led transformation, IT transformation, etc..). Duong has an in-depth knowledge and experience about Vietnam and Laos financial markets, their emerging issues and practical solutions.
Duong has also played the leading role in consulting engagements to provide technical assistance to
regulators (State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), Ministry of Finance, State Securities Commission, Central Bank of
Lao (BoL) such as Financial Sector Modernization and Information Management System (FSMIMS), Local
Development Investment Funds Project, Basel Supervisory Core Principles Assessment for BoL.
Her major clients are Vietcombank, VBARD, BIDV, Vietinbank, Techcombank, VP Bank, VIB, Standard
Chartered Bank, National Bank of Australia, ANZ, Aviva Australia, etc..
Being Vice Chairman of Vietnam Fintech Association, Duong is responsible for strategy development,
promoting members in collaborating with other financial institutions for financial inclusion purpose.
Being the active advisor and contributor to a series of draft regulations/policies on Bad Debt Resolution, Financial Inclusion Strategy for Vietnam up to 2025, eKYC, sandbox framework, revised Law on Credit
Institutions, Supervisory regulations to SBV, BoL; Key advisor to SBV and restructuring banks in Vietnam
on Banking Industry Restructuring Program 2020.
Author of numerous articles on reputable newspapers, online magazines such as Finance Asia, Vietnam Investment Review, Vietnam Economic Times, VnExpress, etc …
Mentors
Li Dao
External Lecturer, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark
Li Dao
External Lecturer, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Denmark
Don Phan
Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Don Phan
Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
Tuan Anh Pham
CIO, Becamex IDC & Director of Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC)
Tuan Anh Pham
CIO, Becamex IDC & Director of Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC)
Dinh Thai Linh Huynh
Director of World Trade Center Binh Duong New City – Becamex IDC
Dinh Thai Linh Huynh
Director of World Trade Center Binh Duong New City – Becamex IDC
Hanh DH Nguyen
Director of Becamex Business Incubator; Programme Lead at Block71 Saigon
Hanh DH Nguyen
Director of Becamex Business Incubator; Programme Lead at Block71 Saigon
Quoc Toan Tran
CEO, Adsota; Co-founder, Appota Group
Quoc Toan Tran
CEO, Adsota; Co-founder, Appota Group
Tuan Minh Nguyen
Senior Technical Program Manager at Axon
Tuan Minh Nguyen
Senior Technical Program Manager at Axon
Mr. NGUYEN, Tuan-Minh is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Axon – an US-based company developing technology & non-lethal weapons for law enforcement. Before joining Axon, Mr. Minh was a Manager - Head of AI Research Lab at Samsung SDS and a Technical Leader at Panasonic R&D Center.
Mr. Minh has mentored teams & realized a portfolio of AI projects that include Samsung BrityWorks Chat bot; Brightics Law and smart factory systems. His expertise is Natural Language Processing for Vietnamese and applied Computer Vision. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Télécom Paristech, France.
Minh Ta
Investment Analyst, 500 Startups Vietnam
Minh Ta
Investment Analyst, 500 Startups Vietnam
Minh Ta is an Investment Analyst at 500 Startups Vietnam. Prior to 500 Startups, Minh was an economic database manager at Haver Analytics (New York City) where he oversaw macroeconomic and financial databases for several Asian markets.
He has a BA in Economics from Lawrence University (WI, USA).
Thanh Huong Dinh
Head of Liquidity Reporting, IRB, Bnpparibas; CEO for Projects and Knowledge & Director of Vietnam Innovation Links, AVSE Global
Thanh Huong Dinh
Head of Liquidity Reporting, IRB, Bnpparibas; CEO for Projects and Knowledge & Director of Vietnam Innovation Links, AVSE Global
❖Thanh Huong holds a Ph.D. degree in Finance from the University of Paris - East, France and Interuniversity Centre of Research on Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO), Canada and a Master’s degree in Financial Management from the University of Grenoble, France. She is qualified as a University Lecturer by the French National University Council. She was also a visiting researcher at HEC Business School in Canada.
❖A manager in Banking and Finance at Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with more than 300,000 employees in the more than 120 countries. She is the director of Executive Education of AVSE - Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts - as well as a researcher and lecturer for several Master programs at various Universities.
❖Researching in University Paris 12 and teaching for many Master programs in France and Vietnam.
❖Thanh Huong have published articles on different international journals such as « Investors, Bankers and Markets »; « Journal of Behavioral Finance »; « Energy Policy »; « Banque et Marchés »; « American Journal of Finance and Accounting »; « Revue Française de Gestion ».
❖Thanh Huong participated in leadership training at Harvard. She often delivers invited talks about leadership, management, and motivation/aspiration for individuals, corporates and organizations. At the same time, she is an active member of several think tanks focusing on Vietnamese economic and financial issues.
Phuong Nguyen-Tri
Regular professor, Université du québec à Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada
Phuong Nguyen-Tri
Regular professor, Université du québec à Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada
Phuong Nguyen-Tri is now regular professor at the department of chemistry, biochemistry and physics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Quebec, Canada. He is founder and Head of the laboratory of advanced materials for Energy and Environment of UQTR. Recently, he has been appointed as Director of UQTR research chair in advanced materials for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). He obtained a MSc in Ecole National Superieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, France and a PhD in material sciences at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers of Paris, French in 2009. He worked then two years as a tenue track assistant professor position at department of industrial polymers, CNAM of Paris, French. He moved then to the Department of mechanical engineering, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Montréal, Canada to take a researcher position at the Chair in Protective Materials and Equipment for Occupational Health and Safety and became a manager of this research chair. Dr. Nguyen-Tri worked as a research officer at Department of Chemistry, University of Montréal, Canada and then as an associate Professor at ETS of Montreal (2015-2019) before accepting a regular professor position at UQTR, Canada from Jun 2019. His main research interests are nanomaterials, hybrid nanoparticles, smart coatings, polymer crystallization, polymer blends and composites. Dr. Nguyen-Tri has edited 12 books (10 from Elsevier) for which he is leader a team of over 300 international researchers in these book projects and he is authored of 14 book chapters, 3 international patents and published over 100 articles and conference proceeding. He served as an editor of 5 special issues in the ISI indexed journals. Dr. Nguyen-Tri is an Editor and Guest-editor for RSEM, PLoS One, SN Applied Science (Nature-Springer), Progress in Organic Coating (Elsevier), Polymers (MDPI). He is currently international grants and book (Elsevier) reviewer.
Hong T.M. Bui
Assoc. Prof. at the International Centre for Higher Education Management, School of Management, University of Bath, UK
Hong T.M. Bui
Assoc. Prof. at the International Centre for Higher Education Management, School of Management, University of Bath, UK
Assoc. Prof., Dr. Hong T.M. Bui received BA degrees in English at Hanoi University, and Economics at the University of Economics, Vietnam National University Hanoi. She then received scholarships to pursue her Master degree in Educational Leadership and Management at MIT Vietnam, and in Communication and Language Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and PhD in Management at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia.
Hong is an Associate Professor in Higher Education Management at the International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM) and Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS), Division of Strategy and Organisation, School of Management, University of Bath, UK. Hong leads a Residential on Organisational Studies and Higher Education for the Doctoral of Business Administration in Higher Education Management (DBA in HEM) for higher education managers and leaders around the world. She is also a Visiting Professor at IPAG Business School, France. Before that, she worked for the University of Southampton, Bournemouth University, University of East Anglia, and Vietnam National University Hanoi.
Her research focuses on Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, particularly on Learning Organisation, Systems Thinking, and Multidisciplinary approaches to Innovation and Sustainability. She has written more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and international conferences for the last decade. She has successfully obtained more than 30 institutional, national and international research grants and support; and substantial enterprise incomes. She has joined scientists and experts from different disciplines to work in innovation and sustainability in various developing countries in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Hong also serves in the leadership team of AVSE Global, joining various research, development and consultancy projects. She leads the Education Network of AVSE Global.
Prof. Dr. Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan
Head of the Clinical Physiology Unit of the Thoracic Department of Cochin Hospital, France; Chair of the Publication Committee of the European Respiratory Society
Prof. Dr. Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan
Head of the Clinical Physiology Unit of the Thoracic Department of Cochin Hospital, France; Chair of the Publication Committee of the European Respiratory Society
Prof. Dr. Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan (born 1958 in Sai Gon, Ho Chi Minh City) is a French physician, who received his MD from Paris Descartes University (France) and his PhD in Clinical Sciences from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is currently the Head of the Clinical Physiology Unit of the Thoracic Department of Cochin Hospital - University of Paris, France. His research is focused on the role of nitric oxide in respiratory physiology and pulmonary diseases for which he has received numerous international awards. He has served as member of various editorial boards but his main editorial commitment is with the European Respiratory Journal, being successively Associate, Joint-Chief, Deputy-Chief, and Section Editor from 2000 to date. He is currently the elected Chair of the Publication Committee of the European Respiratory Society. Prof. Dr. Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan has directed 27 PhD thesis in clinical medicine and physiological sciences and 30 Memoirs of DEA (and M2 research). He has published over 230 papers in international medical and scientific peer-reviewed Journals.
Nhu Van NGUYEN
Instructor at La Rochelle University; Co-founder of Brickin'Up and DopikAI Lab, France
Nhu Van NGUYEN
Instructor at La Rochelle University; Co-founder of Brickin'Up and DopikAI Lab, France
Dr. NGUYEN Nhu Van is currently a researcher and an instructor at ANR join lab Sail, La Rochelle university. He’s the co-founder cum director of research and innovation at Brickin’Up, a startup in France. Dr. Nguyen Nhu Van is also the founder of DopikAI Lab which provides AI solutions in Computer Vision and NLP domains .
He completed his PhD research on computer vision and machine learning in 2011 at La Rochelle university, France. Up to present, he has participated in many innovation projects in diverse domains including designing and developing software, exploiting data and AI.
Dr Van is the main inventor of lecture video and reportage video indexing system which was registered for IP protection in France in 2015 and was transferred to an commercial system by the SATT Grand-Centre, a French technology transfer company.
In addition, Dr. Nguyen Nhu Van is also an active member of AVSE Global -The Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts. He is currently an Innovation leader and involving in multiple projects such as Knowledge Center project, a strategy for Vietnamese talent policy and an Innovation Summit in Vietnam
REINHARD Quy VO
Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder HIT Foundation, Switzerland
REINHARD Quy VO
Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder HIT Foundation, Switzerland
Dr. Quy VO-REINHARD, MBA, Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer at HIT Foundation, Switzerland Quy is the Chief Data Officer and Co-Founder of HIT Foundation – a blockchain-based marketplace for healthcare data – in addition to being a globally-renowned speaker. Her life’s work is dedicated to healthcare innovations aimed at providing equal opportunities and benefits to all stakeholders. Quy took the initiative in Blockchain For Healthcare Project in Vietnam with many hospitals, City Health Departments and will help to drive the project Blockchain4Healthcare with the Ministry of Health in Vietnam.
Moreover, Quy is an AI advisor of LAPO blockchain (Switzerland) which brings stability with traditional Swiss expertise in financial services to crypto assets worldwide. She was voted ‘The Most Influential Woman in Blockchain in Europe’ ( ‘Blockshow Europe 2018’) and received various awards through her life, including Professional Excellence Scholarship, EBS University of Business and Law, Germany (2016); Excellent Young Lecture, Vietnam (2008); National 2nd prize for supervising student in research, Vietnam (2007); Five PhD scholarships in the UK, Spain, Canada, Italy, Germany (2006-2009); Four postdoctoral scholarships (2013-2014); 1st prize in Biology for the 12th grade (1999), etc… At the age of 25, she was the youngest Vice-Dean in Faculty of Biology, Vietnam National University and drove 150 staff department as the strongest unit.
She founded Give Him The Light, an international charitable project aims to save lives, and solve problems of relevance to humanity. The fundraising went to the first case diagnostic of the baby with FEVR/NORI disease and numerous babies in needed of urgent surgery in Nhi Dong Hospital in Vietnam, as well as to build the school and provide food for children in Ha Giang province. She also a member of the Board of Directors of different Vietnamese Associations globally (International Vietnamese Academics Network, Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals and Experts in Switzerland …) to promote networking, collaboration among academics professional, researchers, and university students of Vietnam origin living in Vietnam and abroad. Recently she joins AVSE Global: AVSE – Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts in Digital technology and Knowledge city team to deliver strategy and approach for Vietnam sustainability growth in Industry 4.0.
Quy undertook her Ph.D. in Computational Biomedicine at the Rhine-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen (Germany), thereafter being a senior scientist and lecturer in Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and Stuttgart University (Stuttgart, Germany), co-founded a start-up about enzyme innovation which got EXIST-Business Start-up funding from the German government. She earned an MBA from the EBS University of Business and Law (Germany) and being an entrepreneur after that
Vinh Toan LUU
Information Retrieval Expert, Move Digital AG, Switzerland
Vinh Toan LUU
Information Retrieval Expert, Move Digital AG, Switzerland
Dr. Luu Vinh Toan, Information Retrieval Expert, Move Digital AG, President of Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals and Experts in Switzerland.
Dr. Toan obtained his PhD in the domain of Decentralized Information Retrieval Systems from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007.
He has more than 15 years of experience in Information Extraction and Information Retrieval in several companies and startup in Switzerland where he holds search innovation lead positions. He also gave talk at the European Apache Big Data Conference in 2015.
Before coming to Switzerland, he had several awards in National Olympiad in Informatics and selected as Vietnamese delegation to attend International Festival of Youth and Students.
Recently, Dr. Toan contributes actively his opinions in the domain artificial intelligent, unstructured data processing, digital transformation to magazines of Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology. He also participated in some projects of AVSE Global like Knowledge Center, Vietnamese Abroad Resource Map, and Vietnamese Talent Survey.
Xuan Huan NGUYEN
Associate Professor; Head of 5G & IoT Research Group, Middlesex University, UK
Xuan Huan NGUYEN
Associate Professor; Head of 5G & IoT Research Group, Middlesex University, UK
Dr. Huan X. Nguyen received the B.Sc. degree with the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2006. He was with several universities in U.K., including a Research Officer with Swansea University from 2007 to 2008 and a Lecturer with Glasgow Caledonian University from 2008 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor of communication networks and Head of 5G & IoT Research Group within the Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, U.K. He is member of the Faculty Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee and is currently coordinating the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) team within the department.
His research interests include communications for critical applications, 5G and Internet of Things, machine learning and artificial intelligent for communications, and digital twin. He has published over 100 research papers, mainly in the IEEE journals and conferences. He has secured multiple large-size research grants from the Newton Fund and research councils in the UK, including several projects on 5G/smart transportation, digital twin modelling and research capacity building for academics with partners from universities in Vietnam. He is the Chair of the 2019 26th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2019) and Co-Chair of the 2017 International Workshop on 5G Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Management (IWNPD 2017).
He is currently serving as an Editor for the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and the REV Journal on Electronics and Communications. Dr Nguyen is a Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a Grant Reviewer for Nafosted funding body and frequent reviewer for many IEEE journals. He has also served as session chairs for a number of international conferences in his field.
Ky Tai NGUYEN
Researcher, Australia
Ky Tai NGUYEN
Researcher, Australia
Tai Nguyen-Ky received the B.E., M.B.A, and M.E. degrees from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 1991, 1999, and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), QLD., Australia, in 2011.
He received USQ international research excellence scholarship award, 2008; Dean’s Commendation Award for Graduate Research Excellence 2008; Dean’s Award for Graduate Research Excellence 2009, USQ, Australia; the award for the Best Student Paper, the fourth International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT2009), Gold Coast, Australia.
His research interests in biomedical engineering and agricultural engineering. He has made significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the areas of biomedical engineering, specifically in extending the technology for monitoring the depth of anesthesia.
He is a research fellow in the USQ Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences (IAESS). In the last three years, he has been a key member of the strategic project “Computational models to enhance food security and decision support in agriculture” funded by the USQ. He is currently developing an AI crop model to monitor, predict and control crop status in agriculture. Three main research results presented in the USQ research website
Man BUI
Manager, GTC Soil Analysis Service Laboratory, Dubai, UAE
Man BUI
Manager, GTC Soil Analysis Service Laboratory, Dubai, UAE
Dr Man, a leading expert in geomechanics, currently is the resercher lead of Econstruct (Dubai, UAE) in ultra high performance reinforce concrete, Cement-soil mixing, rammed-earth, and the manager of GTC Soil Analysis services Laboratory (Dubai, UAE).
Dr Man is a natural problem solver. With distinctive stratergic and innovative mindset he has greately contribute to the success of various AVSE-global projects such as Vietnam Public Administrative and Government Reform, Social and Economy planning for Yen Bai Province, VSOE2018, Van Don SEZ, etc. where he has aslo been a team leader.
Man got his PhD in Civil Enginnering from Southampton University in 2009, M.Eng from Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Vietnam). He has learned, and daily practiced and applied Innovative thinkings since he was a student.
Nicole Nguyễn
Blockchain advocate; Cựu giám đốc khu vực Châu Á của Infinity Blockchain Ventures, Thái Lan
Nicole Nguyễn
Blockchain advocate; Cựu giám đốc khu vực Châu Á của Infinity Blockchain Ventures, Thái Lan
Giám đốc khu vực Châu Á Thái Bình Dương của quỹ đầu tư mạo hiểm Infinity Blockchain, Thái Lan
Nicole là một trong những người đóng góp tích cực vào việc xây dựng cộng đồng blockchain tại Việt Nam / Đông Nam Á và là người đưa các sáng kiến dẫn dắt như Vietnam Blockchain Hackathon và Vietnam Blockchain Week. Bà là đồng tác giả của các báo cáo về cảnh quan blockchain cho Việt Nam cùng với các thị trường Đông Nam Á quan trọng khác và là diễn giả tại hơn 20 hội nghị trong nước và quốc tế.
Nicole đã được phỏng vấn bởi Forbes, Business Times Singapore và South China Morning Post với tư cách là một nhà lãnh đạo tư tưởng blockchain. Cô có bằng thạc sĩ kinh doanh quốc tế tại Vương quốc Anh.
Quoc Thinh Nguyen Vuong
Manager at Orange, France
Quoc Thinh Nguyen Vuong
Manager at Orange, France
Quoc Thinh is an Operations Manager at Orange, a multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 256 million customers worldwide and employs 95,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. With 15-year experience in Telecom & IT domain, 8-year in project management (certified PMP) and 4-year as team manager, he has developed a solid leadership, management and result-oriented skills.
Quoc Thinh holds a PhD in Telecommunications from the University of Evry, France, and a Master in Computer Sciences & Networking from Univesity of Paris 6, France. He was graduated from École Polytechnique and École Telecom ParisTech. He has recently attended an executive course on Agility, Strategy and Service at ESSEC Business School.
Dat Tran
Head of AI at Axel Springer AI, Germany
Dat Tran
Head of AI at Axel Springer AI, Germany
Duy Lan Nguyen
Co-founder of Veramine, USA
Duy Lan Nguyen
Co-founder of Veramine, USA
Lan NGUYEN is a Co-founder of Veramine Inc., an US-based company specialized in building cybersecurity products, that have been awarded contracts worth multi-million USDs from U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Airforce, ANZ Bank in Australia, and other important customers. Veramine are also recommended by DHS as a platform for financial and banking sector customers.
He was the Publicity Chair and an Organizing Committee member of Asiacrypt 2016, one of the three most prestigious venues in cryptology that are held as flagship conferences of International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR). Before Veramine, he did several projects in Security and Cryptography at Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA for 9 years, and was also a member of Microsoft Crypto Board that review and advise Microsoft product teams on cryptography. He won Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Commendation, as the annual best runner-up PhD Thesis in Computing in Australia and New Zealand.
Chi Hieu Le
Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich, UK
Chi Hieu Le
Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich, UK
Dr Chi Hieu Le graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST, Vietnam), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and University of Greenwich (United Kingdom) respectively in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Higher Education. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE), and a fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), United Kingdom (UK). Dr Chi Hieu Le is currently a Member of Advisory Board in Science and Technology for Saigon Hi-Tech Park, Vietnam, and Hi-Tech companies such as MD24 House Call (USA), Robot3T (Vietnam), and he is a CEO of VietSolutions (UK). Before working for University of Greenwich, he had been working for HUST and Cardiff University (UK) as a lecturer and a senior research fellow for 12 years.
Dr Chi Hieu Le has been actively working in Higher Education (Learning, Teaching and Assessment), Research & Technology Development (R&D), Technology Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, especially in Innovative Product Development, Advanced Manufacturing (CAD/CAM/CNC, 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing, Micro-Nano Manufacturing), Robotics & Automations, Engineering Management, and Biomedical Engineering (Telehealth, In-Home Healthcare, 2D/3D Medical Image Processing, Personalised Implants, Biomedical Hi-Tech Products & Services).
Since 2000, Dr Chi Hieu Le and his team have been fruitfully collaborating and working with medical doctors and surgeons in Vietnam, including Central Military Hospital 108 and Cho Ray Hospital, in Biomedical technology transfer, and innovative development of Biomedical Hi-Tech products and services to improve the safety and quality of medical diagnosis and treatments, which were well-featured in Newspapers in Vietnam such as Tuoi Tre, Vietnam News and Tia Sang, especially innovative developments of personalised implants and medical devices for bone reconstructions and surgical planning.
Dr Chi Hieu Le also served as a member of editorial boards for several scientific and technological journals, and frequently a member of the scientific and organising committee of international conferences. He is also a project evaluator for funding organisations such as Wellcome Trust (UK), The Royal Society (UK: Global Challenges Research Fund), Welsh Assembly Government (UK), NIHR – Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme (Department of Health, National Institute for Health Research – DH NIHR, UK), and British Council. He annually serves as a visiting professor and an invited speaker at Higher Education Institutions in Vietnam, Thailand, China and Europe.
Dr Chi Hieu Le is a co-founder of the Vietnam-UK Network of Higher Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (www.vuheie.org), which has been successfully secured at least 600,000 USD of the external funding for R&D activities in the last 4 years, with the active engagements and networking activities from scientist, researchers and experts between Vietnam, ASEAN and the UK, as well as the fruitful University-Business collaborations.
Dinh Quy Nguyen
Development Manager in Mitsubishi Electric, USA
Dinh Quy Nguyen
Development Manager in Mitsubishi Electric, USA
Dr. Nguyen Dinh Quy is currently a Development Manager and Senior R&D engineer in Mitsubishi Electric in Cambridge, MA, USA. He is working on research collaboration with MIT on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Factory Automation. Previously, he was a Project Manager and Senior Electrical Engineer at Schlumberger Ltd. for digital transformation and process automation. He hold doctoral degree on electrical and electronics engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
In addition, he is a co-founder of VietSearch team and website for a large database collection and statistics on Vietnamese professionals and communities over the world. VietSearch is a future platform for Vietnamese people connecting and collaborating to foster Vietnam’s education and business. He was also a co-founder and president of the Vietnamese Youth Volunteer (VYV) Organization from 2006. VYV is a non-profit organization to help difficulty children in Vietnam.
Thanh Trung DO
CEO of morEnergy GmbH, Germany
Thanh Trung DO
CEO of morEnergy GmbH, Germany
Thanh Trung Do studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated in 2006 with a degree in electrical engineering and high-voltage engineering. From 2007 he was a Research Associate, Deputy Chief Engineer and lecturer at the Helmut Schmidt University and the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. In 2014, he successfully completed his doctorate in the field of ‘Grid Integration of Renewable Energies’.
In 2015, his doctoral thesis was awarded the HSU Science Prize. The results of his doctoral thesis were used scientifically and economically in many follow-up projects such as network impedance measurement 110 kV, network harmony and NEW 4.0. He participated in all projects in both the application and successful implementation. Since 2017, he succeeds Prof. Ackermann as Deputy Head of the Institute for Electrical Energy Systems and Automation. He research focus on the optimal connection of renewable generation plants to the grid.
Anh Tuan Trinh
Lecturer at Budapest Corvinus Economics University, Director of Corvinus Fintech Center, Hungary
Anh Tuan Trinh
Lecturer at Budapest Corvinus Economics University, Director of Corvinus Fintech Center, Hungary
Key achievements:
- Advised the Hungarian government on auction mechanisms for spectrum auctions to maximise revenue. Helped in designing and implementation of the 4G/LTE spectrum auction in Hungary which brought more than 100M EUR for the Hungarian government.
- Advised the European Commission and invited speaker on Future Internet technologies, blockchain technology, network economics, cybersecurity, privacy and protection of personal information.
- Advised Forbes 500 technology firms and corporations on latest advances in communication technologies.
- More than 100 scientific publications in Computer Science and Internet technologies.
He has been invited as a visiting scientist at Ericsson Research Budapest (Hungary), British Telecom (UK), Viettel Corporation (Vietnam), Eurecom Institute (France), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Bern (Switzerland), ILNAS Luxembourg, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Oxford University (UK) among others. He is a professional member of the ACM and an affiliate of the IEEE Computer Society.
He teaches
- Applied Game Theory, and Data Analytics courses at Budapest University of Technologies and Economics;
- Advanced Internet Technologies course at University of Bern (Switzerland);
- Smart Cyber-Physical Systems and Robotics at University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg).
Tuan Trinh received his Ph.D. (cum laude) in Computer Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2005, where he founded the Network Economics Group focusing on research, development and consulting on disruptive technologies in the frontier between economics and network technologies. He also co-founded and since then has been the Head of Corvinus Fintech Center at Corvinus University of Budapest. a research institution focusing on innovations in financial technology.
Nhat Linh NGUYEN
Medical officer at the Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health organization, Switzerland
Nhat Linh NGUYEN
Medical officer at the Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health organization, Switzerland
Dr Nguyen Nhat Linh is currently working as a medical officer at the Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Linh graduated as a general practitioner in Vietnam and he received postgraduate clinical training in tuberculosis (TB) and lung diseases at Hanoi Medical University. He obtained Master of Science in public health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London and PhD in medical epidemiology from the University of Sydney.
Linh is a medical and public health expert with more than 25 years of experience working in Vietnam and internationally. He started his career in Vietnam, working as a physician at the National Hospital for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases and an implementer of the National TB Programme. He spent 4 years conducting TB epidemiological research in Sydney, Australia for his PhD. He joined WHO in 2008 - firstly, as a WHO technical advisor on TB and leprosy for countries in the South Pacific region (based in Fiji Islands) - and since 2012, as a medical officer at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Linh is experienced in public health research, development of global health policy and guidance, and provision of technical support to countries on the implementation of national health programmes, especially on management of tuberculosis.
Phuong Nga LE VO
Head of Finance Management at Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank of Credit Agricole Group, France
Phuong Nga LE VO
Head of Finance Management at Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank of Credit Agricole Group, France
Phuong Nga is Head of Finance Management at Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank of the Credit Agricole Group, a leader bank in France and in Europe with more than 700,000 people in more than 70 countries. She has extensive experience in Finance Management (ALM & Treasury), Risk Management, and Finance Projects Management.
Phuong Nga was the highest graduated of the National Economic University of Vietnam and first laureate of AUF and French’s government scholarships. Phuong Nga holds a PhD degree with honors in Finance. She has now more than 16 years of hand-on experience in building and leading successful teams in Finance.
Phuong Nga also participates to financial training programs at French universities (Paris, Orleans, Poitiers..) in the aim of granting operational vision & professional perspectives to students in Banking and Finance.
Convinced that giving all our force to what we do is the key to success, Phuong Nga has always been keeping a positive & dynamic life with active actions in many areas. Phuong Nga is particularly interested in social and community connecting activities. She plays the role of event manager where she is good at. Her ultimate purpose is to serve to promote the Vietnamese values.
At AVSE Global, Phuong Nga performs the function of Deputy Finance Director and participates to key projects of AVSE Global
