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Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Education

 

10/2010 – 02/2014

PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Advisor: Prof. Alexander Ostermann

11/2005 – 12/2007

MSc in Computational Mathematics, HUS, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Advisor: Prof. Vu Hoang Linh

09/2001 – 06/2005

BSc in Mathematics, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam


Employment

09/2024 – present

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University (TTU), USA

08/2019 – 08/2024

Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate Professor in 2024), Mississippi State University (MSU), MS, USA

07/2017 – 07/2019

Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX, USA

08/2014 – 06/2017

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced, CA, USA

08/2008 – 09/2010

Junior Researcher, IOIT, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Vietnam


Editorial positions

01/2024 – present

Associate Editor:  Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

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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Invited/Contributed Talks

 

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Awards and Honors

09/2024

Plenary Speaker, International conference on Numerical Solution of Differential and Differential-Algebraic Equations (NUMDIFF-17),

Halle, Germany

06/2023

NSF award (Computational Mathematics Program)

05/2020

NSF award (Computational Mathematics Program)

03/2013

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).

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.

05/2001

Third prize, high-school mathematics competition students, Bac Ninh, Vietnam.


Press Releases

07/2023

MSU news: MSU’s Luan equates NSF funding into environmental, biological systems solutions

06/2023

MSU’s Math Department news: Dr. Vu Thai Luan receives his second NSF award

05/2020

MSU’s Math Department news: Recipient of an NSF award 

04/2018

SMU news: Animations that are true to life

10/2017

UC news:  Animations that are true to life

09/2017

UC Merced news: Mathematicians making strides toward lifelike animations

05/2017

SIGGRAPH 2017: Technical Papers Preview Trailer (highlighted a few amazing works)

 


Teaching Experience

 

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Mentoring Experience

 

PhD Students:

08/2023 – present

Huy Q. Pham (transferred to TTU from MSU)

01/2022 – present

Hoang V. Nguyen (transferred to TTU from MSU)

03/2020 – 07/2023

Trky Alhsmy (graduated, MSU; first job: Assistant Professor at Al Yamamah University)

REU Students:

06–08/2023

Aidan Payne, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (UA)

06–08/2022

Christine M. Raderstorf, University of Georgia (UGA)

 

Visitors:

09–10/2022

Dr. Julius Ehigie, IMU-Simons African Fellowship 2022


 

Professional Services

 

 

Departmental/ University Service at MSU:

 

Organizer

Mathematics Seminar/Colloquium (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)

Chair

Webpage, Computing and Technology Committee (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)

Member

Grant Writing and Consulting Committee (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)

Member

Member, Course Development Committee  (Fall 2020 – Spring 2024)

Member

Member, Thesis Defense Committee

Faculty mentor

NSF REU program at MSU’s CCS (Summer 2022, 2023)

Judge

MSU Graduate Research Symposium (Spring 2022).

 

 

Panelist Invitation:

 

  NSF Computational Mathematics (2025)

 

Conference organization:

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

03/2021

Co-organizer (with D. R. Reynolds) the MS on “Innovative Time Integration Methods for Multirate Differential Equations”, SIAM CSE21 (virtually).

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

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 bookRosenbrock-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