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Curriculum Vitae
Education
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10/2010 – 02/2014 |
PhD in Applied Mathematics,
University of Innsbruck, Austria Advisor: Prof. Alexander Ostermann |
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11/2005 – 12/2007 |
MSc in Computational Mathematics,
HUS, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam Advisor: Prof. Vu Hoang Linh |
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09/2001 – 06/2005 |
BSc in Mathematics, Hanoi National
University of Education, Vietnam |
Employment
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09/2024 – present |
Associate Professor, Texas Tech
University (TTU), USA |
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08/2019 – 08/2024 |
Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate
Professor in 2024), Mississippi State University (MSU), MS, USA |
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist
University (SMU), Dallas, TX, USA |
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08/2014 – 06/2017 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California,
Merced, CA, USA |
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08/2008 – 09/2010 |
Junior Researcher, IOIT, Vietnam Academy of Science and
Technology (VAST), Vietnam |
Editorial positions
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01/2024
– present |
Associate Editor: Advances
in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics |
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07/2022
– 01/2024 |
Managing Guest Editor: Journal
of Computational and Applied Mathematics |
Research
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Grants
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Publications
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Awards and Honors
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09/2024 |
Plenary Speaker,
International conference on Numerical Solution of Differential and
Differential-Algebraic Equations (NUMDIFF-17), Halle, Germany |
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06/2023 |
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05/2020 |
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Research fellowship (6-month research stay) under the DFG grant GRK 1294 at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany (hosted by Prof. Dr. Marlis Hochbruck). |
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10/2010 |
PhD fellowship (3 years) in the Doctoral School “Computational Interdisciplinary Modelling” funded
by Austrian Science Fund FWF W1227 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. |
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05/2001 |
Third prize, high-school mathematics competition students,
Bac Ninh, Vietnam. |
Press Releases
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07/2023 |
MSU news: MSU’s Luan equates NSF funding
into environmental, biological systems solutions |
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06/2023 |
MSU’s Math
Department news: Dr. Vu Thai Luan receives his
second NSF award |
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05/2020 |
MSU’s Math
Department news: Recipient of an NSF
award |
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UC news: Animations
that are true to life |
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09/2017 |
UC Merced news:
Mathematicians making strides toward lifelike animations |
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05/2017 |
SIGGRAPH 2017: Technical
Papers Preview Trailer
(highlighted a few amazing works) |
Teaching
Experience
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Mentoring Experience
PhD
Students:
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08/2023 –
present |
Huy Q. Pham
(transferred to TTU from MSU) |
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01/2022 –
present |
Hoang V. Nguyen
(transferred to TTU from MSU) |
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03/2020 –
07/2023 |
Trky Alhsmy (graduated, MSU; first
job: Assistant Professor at Al Yamamah University) |
REU Students:
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06–08/2023 |
Aidan Payne,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (UA) |
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06–08/2022 |
Christine M.
Raderstorf, University of Georgia (UGA) |
Visitors:
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09–10/2022 |
Dr. Julius Ehigie, IMU-Simons African Fellowship 2022 |
Professional Services
Departmental/
University Service at MSU:
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Organizer |
Mathematics Seminar/Colloquium
(Fall 2021 – Spring 2024) |
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Chair |
Webpage, Computing and Technology
Committee (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024) |
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Member |
Grant Writing and Consulting Committee
(Fall 2021 – Spring 2024) |
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Member |
Member, Course Development Committee (Fall
2020 – Spring 2024) |
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Member |
Member, Thesis Defense Committee |
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Faculty mentor |
NSF REU program at MSU’s CCS
(Summer 2022, 2023) |
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Judge |
MSU Graduate Research Symposium
(Spring 2022). |
Panelist Invitation:
NSF Computational Mathematics (2025)
Conference
organization:
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06/2025 |
Co-organizer (with N.H. Long &
L.M. Ha) the summer school and international workshop on “Advanced numerical
methods for deterministic and stochastic differential equations”
at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), Hanoi,
Vietnam, June 9 – 14, 2025. |
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08/2023 |
Co-organizer (with A. Diegel &
A. Rapp) the minisymposium
(MS) on “Innovative Numerical Methods for Complex PDEs” the 10th International Congress on
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), Tokyo, Japan, August 20 –
24, 2023. |
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05/2022 |
Organizer the MS on “Recent advances in time integration of PDEs” at the Second International
Conference on Computational Methods and Applications in Engineering (ICCMAE),
Mississippi State, MS, May 7-8, 2022. |
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05/2022 |
Co-organizer (with H. Lim,
M. Razzaghi, and A. Diegel) the Second International
Conference on Computational Methods and Applications in Engineering, Mississippi State, MS, May 7-8, 2022. |
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03/2021 |
Co-organizer (with D.
R. Reynolds) the MS on “Innovative Time Integration Methods for Multirate Differential Equations”, SIAM CSE21 (virtually). |
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02/2019 |
Co-organizer (with D.R. Reynolds) the MS on
“Recent Advances in Multirate
Time Integration for Multiphysics Problems”,
SIAM CSE19, Spokane,
WA, US. Audio featured by SIAM: https://www.pathlms.com/siam/courses/10878/sections/14361 |
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03/2017 |
Co-organizer (with M. Tokman)
the MS on “Innovative
Time Integrators for Large-Scale Complex Problems”, SIAM CSE17, Atlanta,
GA, US. |
Reviewer Invitation:
For Mathematical Reviews (AMS) and the following 25 journals published by SIAM, Elsevier, Springer, De Gruyter, IEEE, Wiley:
1.
Mathematics
of Computation
2.
SIAM
Journal on Numerical Analysis (SINUM)
3.
Numerische Mathematik
4.
SIAM
Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC)
5.
Journal
of Computational Physics (JCP)
6.
BIT
Numerical Mathematics (BIT)
7.
Journal
of Scientific Computing (JSC)
8.
Computers
and Mathematics with Applications (CAMWA)
9.
IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
10. Journal of
Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM)
11. Applied Numerical
Mathematics (APNUM)
12. Applied Mathematics and
Computation (AMC)
13. Journal of
Computational Mathematics (JCM)
14. ESAIM: Mathematical
Modelling and Numerical Analysis
15. Numerical Algorithms
16. Mathematics and
Computers in Simulation (MATCOM)
17. Electronic Transactions
on Numerical Analysis (ETNA)
18. International Journal
of Numerical Analysis and Modeling (IJNAM)
19. Mathematical Methods in
Applied Sciences (MMA)
20. International Journal
of Computational Methods (IJCM)
21. Journal of Mathematical
Chemistry (JMC)
22. IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
23. Afrika Matematika (AFMA)
24. International Journal
of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (IJNSNS)
25. Mathematical and
Computational Applications (MCA)
For the Doctoral Programme
Dynamics of Complex Continua, which is an interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral programme.
For the book “Rosenbrock-Wanner-Type Methods:
Theory and Applications",
Eds. T. Jax, M. Günther, G.
Steinebach, A. Bartel, M. Ehrhardt (Springer, 2021).
Judges:
1.
Poster, SIAM CSE 2021
2. Graduate Research Symposium 2022, MSU
Membership:
1.
Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), since 2016