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I am a senior research engineer and project manager, with current focuses on algorithms development and testing, validation in automotive industry. I have been managing technology development for different mechatronics and automotive systems; and currently leading a R&D team of motivated research engineers and industrial PhDs at Siemens Digital Industries, trying to tackle challenging engineering topics in control, autonomous driving, V&V, and AI.

I obtained PhD from KULeuven (Belgium) and M.Sc. from GIST (South Korea) in control systems.

Recent activities:

  • Siemens DF PL Invention of the Year Award
  • Speaker in ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo 2022, San Jose, California
  • Selected Seed Fund project with Univ. of Oxford, TU Berlin and Siemens AG on Digital Twin of connected mobility
  • Siemens technical coordinator in the EU FOCETA project on trustworthy autonomy
  • Scientific advisor in the EU ELO-X project on embedded learning and optimization
  • Finalist of the AutoSens Award 2019 in Most Influential Research: link
  • Recent papers: ICML 2022, IEEE ACC, AAC (2022), ITSC, IV, JSAE (2021), ACC, CCTA, IFAC, JSAE (2020), CDC, ICM (2019).
  • Conference Editorial Board in IEEE Control System Society
  • PhD Supervisor, KU Leuven
  • PhD Jury Committee, KU Leuven

Invited seminars:

  • Politechnico Milano, Italy, October 2021: Invited industrial speaker to the Automation and Control Engineering Degree Programme
  • Oxford Control Group, UK, May 2021: link
  • TU Munich, HyConSys Lab, Germany, March 2021: link
  • Cardiff University, IROHMS, UK, April 2021: link
  • Univ. of Tokyo, Hori-Fujimoto Lab, Japan, May 2019: link
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Automatic Control Lab., Switzerland, May 2018: link
  • AutoSens Conference, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 2018: link

Education and Training

  • Ph.D. 2012 - 2016

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, KULeuven, Belgium

    Advisors: Prof. Jan Swevers, Prof. Goele Pipeleers

    MECO Research Group

  • M.S.2010-2012

    Mechatronics Dept., Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea

    Advisors: Prof. Hyo-Sung Ahn

    Distributed Control and Autonomous Systems Lab.

  • B.A.2004-2009

    Electrical Engineering Dept.,

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Awards and Honors

  • Siemens 2018
    2018 Siemens DF PL Invention of the Year Award
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  • Marie Curie 2012-2015
    EU Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship
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    This fellowship was supported by the European Commission under the EU Framework 7 funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) IMESCON (grant no. 264672).
  • ACC 2011
    2011 American Control Conference
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    The best presentation in session award
  • GIST 2010-2012
    GIST Scholarship
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    The 2-year scholarship to study Master programs at GIST (waive tuition fees, accommodation, and living expenses)
  • GIST 2009
    International Internship Scholarship
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    Selected from Vietnam for awarding 4 months participating the "GIST International Internship Program". The program includes some scientific courses, language and culture courses, traveling and visiting factories in South Korea.