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Prof. Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Head of the Key Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (AI), VNU University of Engineering and Technology President of FISU

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Thuy, PhD. is Head of the Key Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (AI), VNU University of Engineering and Technology. He is Deputy Director of the National R&D Program KC4.0/2019-2025 (Ministry of Science and Technology). He received PhD. degree in 1987.
Professor Nguyen Thanh Thuy’s courses and RD activities in AI are done at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology from 1987 to 2011, and at VNU University of Engineering and Technology from 2011 till now. His AI research interests are mainly in: Knowledge systems, Soft-computing, Data mining, Machine learning, Hybrid Intelligent systems.

Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Associate Professor Head, Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Lab Vice Dean, School of Information and Communication Technology Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Huynh Thi Thanh Binh is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). She is Head of Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Lab (MSO). She is member of the Technical Committee on Computer Science and Information Technology, The National Foundation for Science and Technology Development - NAFOSTED (2019-2021).
Her current research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Optimization, Computational Intelligence, Memetic Computing, Evolutionary Multitasking.
She has published more than 100 papers, including 30 ISI papers and some high-ranking conference papers in the field of Computational Intelligence.
Binh and her team won the First and Second prize at Multi-task single-objective optimization (MTSOO), Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimization, 2018 and 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Third prize at Competition on Electric Vehicle Routing Problem, WCCI 2020.
She has served as a regular reviewer of numerous prestigious academic journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Applied Soft Computing, Memetic Computing...
She is member of some committees in IEEE Asia Pacific: IEEE R10 Executive Committee, Student Activities Committee Chair (2019, 2020); Conference & Technical Seminar and Conference Quality Management Committee (2019, 2020).

Nam Thoai

Associate Professor with HCMUT
The founder and director of the High Performance Computing Lab at HCMUT

Nam Thoai is Associate Professor with HCMUT. He received his Ph.D. from Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He is the founder and director of the High Performance Computing Lab at HCMUT. His research includes high performance computing, high performance data analytics & AI, cloud computing, and network protocols. Currently, his projects are studying performance of HPC systems using VMs/Dockers and Xeon Phi/GPUs, HPDA&AI, Deep learning on Xeon Phi/GPUs, IoTs for Smart cities and Telco CDNs.
He has been the Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from 2007 to 2018. The CSE Faculty has two programs Computer Science and Computer Engineering following ABET accreditation. He is also served as the Research Chair of the HCMC ICT research program supporting Smart Cities and Industry 4.0 during period 2018 - 2023.

Tran Cong Quynh Lan

Deputy General Director and Chief Information Officer

Mr. Tran Cong Quynh Lan is Deputy General Director and Chief Information Officer of VietinBank, driving the bank’s IT division. Prior to his current role, Lan has 12 years of IT experience with OCBC Bank (Singapore), group O&T – Consumer Banking as the role of Vice President.
He is very experienced in deploying IT application modernizing with the aim of improving banking products, particularly modern, automatic and effective business channels. He and VietinBank are deploying digital transformation strategy throughout adopting new innovations such as biometric, AI, RPA, analytics and big data …

Hung Bui

Director of VinAI Research, VinGroup

Dr. Hung H. Bui is the Director of VinAI Research, VinGroup, Vietnam. His technical expertise and interests include probabilistic graphical models, deep generative models, Bayesian inference and machine learning, especially models for sequential and relational data with applications in human activity/intent recognition, video understanding and natural language processing. These interests center around the challenging problem of how to make the machine better understand the humans - a problem that plays a central part in intelligent assistive technologies, personal assistance and dialogue management.
Before joining VinAI, he was at Google DeepMind, Adobe Research and Nuance Natural Language Understanding Lab, and also spent almost 10 years at the AI Center, SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) where he led the multi- institution research team in developing probabilistic inference technologies for understanding the user activities during the CALO project (at the time, the largest AI project in history, also known as the project that spun off Siri). Going further back in time, he was an assistant professor at Curtin University, Australia (2000 - 2003), Ph.D. graduate in computer science (Curtin, 1998).

Dao Viet Hang, M.D, PhD

Vice General Secretariat, Vietnam Association of Gastroenterology
Vice Director,Endoscopic Centre, Hanoi Medical University hospital

Dr Dao Viet Hang graduated from the Hanoi Medical University in 2011 and got her PhD degree in 2016. Hang is an experienced gastroenterologist and endoscopist, and a lecturer at the Hanoi Medical University. She is interested in gastrointestinal endoscopy, motility disorders, liver cancer, and viral hepatitis treatment.
She is now the Vice General Secretariat of Vietnam Association of Gastroenterology and Vice Director of Endoscopic Centre, Hanoi Medical University Hospital. An active and enthusiastic scientist, she would like to expand her research network and contribute to the improvement of GI endoscopy training in Vietnam.

Jesse Arlen Smith

The President of AIforGood Asia The Managing Director of The Robot of the Year, Asia

He is the President of AIforGood Asia, an international initiative focusing on helping Asia prepare for the future of AI by providing better education access for society, better strategy for businesses and better policy support for governments to realize the potential of AI and not get left behind.
Jesse is also the Managing Director of The Robot of the Year, Asia a global conference that finds and funds the top ethical artificial intelligence and robotics innovations in the world. Jesse brings practical experience as an AI technologist and founder of JohnnyFive AI Limited a Hong Kong based AIforGood company that collaborates with academia to develop AI IOT applications for research and development in areas of social welfare and healthcare improvements. Jesse is an experienced entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and advocate for the ethical development of artificial intelligence.
He believes in driving innovation by empowering people, companies and societies to change for good.

Nguyen Xuan Phong

AI Expert, Chief of Artificial Intelligence Officer - CAIO FPT Software

- Bachelor of Business Administration, Conventry University (UK / Singapore)
- Master of Science in Information Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ph.D in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo University
- Researcher, Reseach Development Center, Hitachi Corporation (Tokyo, Japan)
- Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Tokyo Techies Training Center (Tokyo, Japan)

Vu Hong Chien

Director of AI Research and Development Unit in Quy Nhon, QAI, FPT Software

- FPT Technology Officials 2013
- Top 100 FSOFT 2016
- Top 100 FPT 2016
- Top 13 FPT under-35- year-old in 2017
- Head of FQC, Quality Assurance Department of FPT Software 2017
- Chief Technology Officer FPT DPS Digital Services 2018.

Prof. Yoshua Bengjo

A.M.Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing” Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning.
Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. CIFAR’s Learning in Machines & Brains Program Co-Director, he is also the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning.
In 2018, Yoshua Bengio ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations worldwide, thanks to his many high-impact contributions.
In 2019, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Dr. Hsu Hui Huang

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Viet Nam

- Dr. Hsu Hui Huang (許輝煌) was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University. He was also the President of Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) from February 2017 to January 2019. Prof. Hsu received his Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, USA.
- Prof. Hsu has published over 150 referred papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He also edited a book titled Big Data Analytics for Sensor- Network Collected Intelligence published by Elsevier, USA in Feb. 2017. He has worked in the areas of machine learning, data mining, ambient intelligence, bio-medical informatics, and multimedia processing.

Lam Thu Bui

The Associate Professor in Computer Science, Le Quy Don Technical University (LQDTU), the Dean of IT Faculty of LQDTU

Lam Thu Bui currently is an Associate Professor in Computer Science, Le Quy Don Technical University (LQDTU), Hanoi, Vietnam. He was the Dean of IT Faculty of LQDTU. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, in 2007. He did postdoctoral training at UNSW from 2007 until 2009. He is doing research in the fields of artificial intelligence and evolutionary computation. He is the co-editor of the book Multi-objective Optimization in Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IGI Global Information Science Reference Series); and the General Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning - SEAL2012. Prof. Bui is a member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), and was the Vice-Chair of the Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Prof. Vu Ha Van

Scientific Director of Vingroup Big Data Institute (VinBigdata)

Prof. Vu Ha Van is currently Scientific Director of Vingroup Big Data Institute; he is also Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Joined Vingroup since 2018, Prof. Van was one of the first people laid the foundation for Vinbigdata’s establishment; aiming at turning VinBigdata into the leading Data and Science-Technology research center in Vietnam whose mission is "Technology empowers the future".
Vu Ha Van received his Ph.D. at University of Yale in 1998, then worked as a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and Microsoft Research from 1998 to 2001. In terms of honors, Prof. Vu Ha Van won the Sloan fellowship and NSF Career Award for young scientists in the US within 2002. In 2006, Prof. Van with Prof. Terence Tao published the book named Additive Combinatorics; and along with Prof. Jean Bourgain to organise a research program focusing on this topic at IAS (Princeton). In 2008, Prof. Van was awarded the Pólya Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his work on concentration of measure. Four years later, he was awarded the Fulkerson Prize (jointly with Anders Johansson and Jeff Kahn) of American Mathematical Society (AMS) for determining the threshold of edge density above which a random graph can be covered by disjoint copies of a given smaller graph. Also in 2012, he became a fellow of this organisation. In May 2020, Prof. Van became the fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA. He had presentations at the International Congress of Mathematicians – ICM (Seoul, 2014) and World Statistics Congress – WSC (Istanbul, 2012).

Le Thanh Ha

The Associate Professor in University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, The head of HMI Laboratory

Mr. Le Thanh Ha is an Associate Professor in University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University. He his now the head of HMI Laboratory (https://hmiuet.wordpress.com/).
His research interests in Computer science include Digital signal processing, Digital image processing, Computer Vision, Multimedia communication and Machine learning. He has been the principle investigators of many international, government and industrial research projects such as Image recognition for mobile and surveillance cameras, reinforcement learning for vision-based mobile robot navigation, multimedia tools for preservation and promotion of intangible heritage, eye tracking and electroencephalogram signal processing for serve moto disabilities.
He has also been principle and main investigator of many fundamental research and technology development projects funded by both domestic and international organizations. He also makes contributions in serving many domestic and international ICT academic conferences including KSE, NICS, ATC, SoICT, ICEIC, AI4Life… In addition, he is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and many other international & domestic scientific conferences.
He and his colleague have launched ICT products such as: applications for preservation and promotion Vietnamese intangible heritage (http://disanso.vn), communication assistive system for severe motor disabilities (http://blife.vn)…

A/Prof. PhD. Nguyen Thanh Hien

Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City, Former Head of Faculty of Information Technology, Ton Duc Thang University

PhD. Nguyen Thanh Hien is currently participating in the program of implementing and applying machine learning to professional activities and planning to build an AI research laboratory in Finance of Banking University, Ho Chi Minh City. Before that, he was the Head of IT and Applied Mathematics, Ton Duc Thang University. Not only participating in professional activities and teaching, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hien also participates in AI application activities in enterprises, researching and publishing AI topics, editing the professional journal Computational Social Networkd (journals listed as SCOPUS).

A/Prof. Nguyen Viet Nhung, MD., PhD

Director, National Lung Hospital Manager, Vietnam Lung Association

Associate Professor Nguyen Viet Nhung, MD., PhD serves as Director of National Lung Hospital, Manager of Vietnam NTP, President, Vietnam Lung Association and Member of newly established National Commison on Ending TB of Viet Nam.
He has been appointed to be a member of WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) in Geneva scince 2016. Dr. Nhung has been principal investigator of many local and international research projects in TB and Lung diseases, including the first TB prevalence survey in the year 2006-2007, the second one in the year 2017, clinical trials TBTC and ACT3 in Viet Nam.

A/Prof. Ta Hai Tung

The Associate Professor of Information Technology at School of Information and Communication Technology,Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Ta Hai Tung is Associate Professor of Information Technology at School of Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received the PhD in Information and Communication Technologies, specializing in satellite navigation, from Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino - Polito, Italia) in 2010. In 2009, he was with Satellite Navigation & Positioning Laboratory (SNAP Lab), University of New South Wales. From 2/2010 to 2/2011, he worked as a PostDoc fellow at Electronics Department of Polito. At HUST, since 11/2003, he has been the lecturer of SoICT HUST. In addition, from 11/2011 to 11/2018, he was the Director of the International Collaboration Center for Research and Development of Satellite Navigation Technology in South-East Asia (NAVIS Centre), Hanoi, Vietnam. Since November 2018, Prof. Tung has been the Dean of SoICT. In addition, he has been the Co- Chair of MultiGNSS Asia (two terms: 2016 – 2018, and 2018 – 2020), which is the largest professional organization on satellite navigation in Asia and Oceania region. In December 2013, Dr. Tung was awarded as one of TOP 10 young scientists of Vietnam in 2013. In November 2015, he led the team to win the 1st prize of the Vietnam Talent Award on Information Technology Products – the most prestigious award on IT contest in Vietnam.

Dr. Nguyen Quy Ha

Head of Medical Image Department Vingroup Big Data Institute

Dr. Nguyen Quy Ha is currently Head of Medical Imaging Department, Vingroup Big Data Institute (VinBigdata). Joined VinBigdata from 2018, Dr. Ha with his colleagues of nearly 30 researchers, carry on collecting, processing, and analysis of medical imaging based on data, in order to solve practical and urgent problems at hospitals in Vietnam. Graduated with a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, United States, he had over 03 years working experience under Postdoc position at EPFL, Switzerland. After returned to Vietnam, he has focused on computer vision and participated in building and developing algorithms based on image processing and deep learning. At VinBigdata, Dr. Ha laid the foundation for the Medical Imaging Department, along with the research team to develop VinDr - A comprehensive AI solution for medical imaging. The solution has been piloted in 03 major hospitals nationwide since June 2020.

Dr. Trinh Dinh Hoan

The expert in AI and Computer Vision for the Viettel Cyberspace Center

Dr. Trinh Dinh Hoan, received the B.S. degree from the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and the M.S. degree from the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics in 2005, and 2008, respectively.
In 2013, he received Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics (in signal and image processing) from the Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, Université Paris 13, France.
From 01/2008-12/2009, he was a researcher with the Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.
From 01/2015--5/2016, he was a principal engineer with the Viettel Research and Development Institute.
From 05/2016 to 09/2019, he was a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Université de Lorraine, France.
From 09/2019-10/2020, he was a researcher with the Laboratoire Imagerie et Vision Artificielle (ImViA), Université de Bourgogne, France.
He currently works as an expert in AI and Computer Vision for the Viettel Cyberspace Center.
His research interests include AI, image processing, computer vision, medical imaging, and applied mathematics.

Dr. Do Van Hai

The expert in speech processing, Cyberspace Center, Viettel Group

Dr. Do Van Hai is an expert in speech processing at the Cyberspace Center, Viettel Group, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Thuyloi University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2015. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, USA working on development of speech keyword search systems. From 2015 to 2017, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, a Singapore-based research center established by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. At ADSC, he built speech recognition systems for under-resourced languages. In 2017, Dr. Hai returned to Vietnam and with his colleagues at the Viettel Group to build Vietnamese speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. These products have been widely used such as the monitoring system for customer service call centers, automatic call centers (CallBot), meeting notes, audio newspaper systems.

Le Hong Viet

General Director of FPT Smart Cloud

Mr. Le Hong Viet was appointed General Director of FPT Smart Cloud. Joining FPT since 2005, he has contributed in building a powerful foundation in researching and developing new services and products and applying the latest technology to improve business process for FPT. He plays the vital role in designing and facilitating a creative working environment, in which offer constructive support and resource for technical experts. Achieved international information technology gold medal in 1999; graduated from Sydney University in 2004; with a solid technical background and nearly 10 years of experience working in many countries around the world, Mr. Viet is one of the pioneers who laid the foundation for the application and development of new technologies as well as helping FPT to conquer the international markets such as USA, Japan, France, Singapore, etc., in various technological fields like AI, Cloud Computing, Big Data, IoT, Mobility, etc., As soon as becoming the CTO of FPT in late 2015, Mr. Viet determined to set Digital Transformation as key strategy, aiming to turn FPT to a global digital enterprise; creating an innovative and sustainable FPT’s ecosystem. In 2017, he decided to establish FPT Artificial Intelligence Center, paving the path for the birth of the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence platform in Vietnam today - FPT.AI with innovative products such as FPT AI Vision, Speech, Conversation and Knowledge; becoming the core of digital transformation for FPT's customers and partners. Up until now, FPT has broadly introduced AI and achieved a great level of digital transformation; created and shared numerous resources for the community; contributed to many researches, invention projects, papers...; become an ideal working environment for scientists and technical experts; contributed to the development of new business models such as: ANTS - a company focused on programmatic advertising, CyRadar - a new generation of security service.

Nguyen Hung

CEO of TPBank

Mr. Nguyen Hung was appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TPBank on July 4 th , 2012. Mr. Nguyen Hung has over 20 years of experience in banking and finance industry at executive level, such as CEO of Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPBank) for the period of April 2009 - June 2012 and different managerial positions at Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) for 2000-2009 period. With important contributions in restructuring TPBank into one of top healthy and effective banks in Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Hung was honored to receive Certificates of Merit from the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam for outstanding performance in “Restructuring the system of credit institutions for the period of 2011 - 2015” and for “Outstanding contributions to the completion of banking tasks for the period of 2014-2015”.
Mr. Nguyen Hung holds an MBA degree in E-commerce from North Central University, USA.

Ph.D. Dongwha Kum

The President of Vietnam - Korea Institute of Science and Technology (VKIST), Ministry of Science and Technology

Dr. Dongwha Kum is currently the President of Vietnam - Korea Institute of Science and Technology (VKIST), a new model of research institute focusing on industrial technology under Ministry of Science and Technology.
Dr. Kum graduated from Seoul National University majoring in Metallurgical Engineering, then prolonged his educational career as Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University (USA). His fields of research and specialty areas include Deformation behavior of materials, Thin film synthesis and Advanced Materials Characterization. Besides, he has a wide breadth of experience in S&T policy and management; specifically, extensive experience in R&D program management in institutional & national levels, and strong involvement in S&T policy in various Government committees and professional organizations.
Dr. Kum has published 47 scientific papers, 45 presentations in technical meetings, 7 patents, 30 R&D reports and 2 books (edited). In addition, Dr. Kum participated in various local and international conferences with different roles (Chairman, member of Advisory Board, plenary speaker), including PRICM6 (International Conference on Advanced Materials Pacific Rim), APC9 (Asia-Pacific Microscope Conference), THERMEC (National Conference on processing and manufacturing of advanced materials), and S&T events in Vietnam (2004), Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (2006), Nepal (2008), Myanmar (2010) and Ethiopia (2012).
During his distinguished career, Dr. Kum has been appointed to hold many important positions, such as: Executive Director of International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), President of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), President of KIST Europe in Germany and more.
With his talent and outstanding dedication to S&T, Dr. Kum has been awarded with prestigious awards, such as: S&T Medal (Doyackjang); Accomplishment Award (Seojungsang) by KIMM; Recognition for Distinguished Technical Service by Korean Air Force and Korean Prime Minister's Award.

A/Prof. PhD. Le Dinh Duy

VNUHCM - University of Information Technology

Duy Dinh Le is an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Information Technology, Vietnam. He received his BS and MS degrees in 1995 and 2001, from the University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and his PhD degree in 2006 from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan. He was an associate professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan from 2013 to 2016. His research interests video analysis and indexing, face recognition, object detection, big data analysis, and machine learning. He has authored and co-authored 97+ research papers and 1 patent filled by Sony Corporation.

MS. Le Nhat Quang

Vice Director, Information Technology Park - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (ITP).
Director, Innovation Entrepreneurship Center - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (IEC)

Vice Director, Information Technology Park - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (ITP). Director, Innovation Entrepreneurship Center - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (IEC). He had 8 years of experience in the process of participating in building a startup ecosystem at ITP. He has supported and advised more than 200 startup teams and projects, participated in training and instructed more than 5000 managers, and built startup ecosystems in the local and the universities. Research Project Manager: Research of identifying factors affecting entrepreneurship spirit of ITC students in VNU-HCM, 2014; Current situation of and solutions to promote technology commercialization at VNU-HCM, 2017; Building a model of Information Technology Park in university, 2015; Develop and pilot an overall startup support program at VNU-HCM, 2016; Collective Award: First Prize of The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award of Ho Chi Minh City 2018 (I-Star Award 2018) which is organized by the Department of Science and Technology HCMC in 2018; Third prize of HCMC Innovation Contest which is organized by People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City in 2019. Invent and celebrate remarkable events such as: Contest of Creative Ideas Contest - CiC: https://cic.itp.vn/ ; Events: Entrepreneurship Journey, Startup Open Day.

Le Yen Thanh

Le Yen Thanh is an excellent student when he was studying at University of Science (Ho Chi Minh City). He was honored with the "Talented Citizen" award of Ho Chi Minh City, "The Young face of Vietnam" award and won many prestigious awards such as the "Qua Cau Vang" award for top Engineer & Researcher in Vietnam, the “Nhan Tia Dat Viet” award, as well as major awards from national to international level.... And was also known as "Prize Hunter". Thanh used to work for Google when he was a 4th year student. After graduating, he rejected the opportunity to work abroad and decided to stay in Vietnam to participate in start-up projects. He is currently the CEO of BusMap, developing from a bus software designed by Thanh himself since he was a second-year student. Currently, BusMap is market leading in public transport application in Vietnam, reaching more than 2 million downloads, with more than 400,000 monthly active user. The application is highly appreciated by users and is regularly introduced to the student community.
+ Tuoi Tre prize for top 20 startups that has contribute for social life.
+ Chairman Honda Y-E-S Forum 2020.
+ I-star Award 2019.
+ Youth for Education Award 2018
+ Nhân tài đất Việt 2016.
+ Honda YES Award 2015.
+ "Talented Citizen" award of Ho Chi Minh City, "The Young face of Vietnam" award
+ "Qua Cau Vang" award for top Engineer & Researcher in Vietnam
+ Champion of Vietnam Olympic in Informatics
+ ACM - ICPC champion Asean Regional. ACM - ICPC World Finalist.

Ngo Dien Hy

CEO VNPT Information Technology Company (VNPT-IT)

Ngo Dien Hy
CEO VNPT Information Technology Company (VNPT-IT)
- Qualifications MBA, Shidler College of Business, the University of Hawaii Engineering of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
- 05/2009 - 05/2015: Director of Service Development Center, VNPT VinaPhone.
- 05/2015 – 03/2018: CEO, VNPT Media Coporation.
- 4/2018 – present: CEO, VNPT Information Technology Company (VNPT-IT).

Nguyen Viet Bang

Deputy General Director of VNPT Technology, in charge of technology

- Mr. Nguyen Viet Bang, Deputy General Director of VNPT Technology, in charge of technology.
- VNPT Technology is the core unit of VNPT Group in the field of technology development, with over 1.000 employees, including more than 400 engineers in R&D, has designed hardware and software, produced and supplied for domestic and international market over 10 million new technological devices, including telecom customer-premises equipment (CPE), wifi hotspot, OTT set-top box, smart phone, DVB-T2 set-top box, IP camera, computing devices (PC, AI box, mini PC...) and carrier grade software systems.
- Mr. Nguyen Viet Bang has nearly 30 years continuously working in R&D of information technology, electronics, telecom, including 18 years with Alcatel-Lucent Group (France) and Alcatel Network Systems Vietnam (ANSV) – the joint-venture between Alcatel and VNPT, in France and in Vietnam; from 2012, working as CTO of VNPT Technology, leading and managing the development of hardware and software technology; from 2015, working as Director of R&D Centre, VNPT Group.
- Master of Electronic and Telecommunication (Hanoi University of Science and Technology), MBA (Impac University/USA).

M.Sc. Pham Thanh Toan

Data Science, Founder, CEO MiSmart JSC

Data scientist specializing in natural language processing, speech processing, deep learning and recommendation. Innovator and entrepreneur with 6 years in business leadership. Experienced in all aspects of business strategy, operation, and management. Visionary product developer with deep user experiences in research and analytics. Effective communicator and motivator who identifies and leverages assets in teammates to reach organizational goals. Follow your heart and trust that it knows where it's going.

A/Prof. PhD. Quan Thanh Tho

The Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

Dr. Quan Thanh Tho is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam. He received his B.Eng. degree in Information Technology from HCMUT in 1998 and received Ph.D degree in 2006 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests include formal methods, program analysis/verification, the Semantic Web, machine learning/data mining and intelligent systems. Currently, he is the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty.

PhD. Stefan Hajkowicz

Grad Dip Econ

Stefan is a principal scientist in strategy and foresight at CSIRO’s Data61 - the digital arm of Australia’s national science agency. Stefan is also group leader of Data61 Insights - a team of researchers and consultants with expertise in data driven foresight, economics, strategy and policy analysis. Stefan is one of the world’s leading researchers within the fields of geography, economics and decision theory. He has published seminal works on multiple criteria analysis (MCA) and has applied this decision making technique in numerous research consultancies for government and industry customers. Stefan has authored over 100 research publications generating over 4,000 citations (google scholar). His book “global megatrends” is one of CSIRO’s best sellers. He has delivered over 200 seminars and keynotes at major conferences and is one of Australia’s most in-demand speakers. In 2015 he was listed by CEDA as one of Australia’s 10 most influential speechmakers. Over his 20 years at CSIRO Stefan has held a wide range of senior research and senior managerial roles. Stefan is a member of the OECD Government Foresight Community and previously the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Community. Stefan has a doctorate in geography from The University of Queensland and a graduate diploma in economics from the University of New England.

Dr. Thong Do

The Co-Founder & CEO of Palexy

Thong Do is a serial tech entrepreneur and data scientist. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Palexy, a Retail Technology company that empowers physical retail to digitize the in-store experience and optimize the operational efficiency. Prior to building Palexy, Thong was the co-founder and Managing Director of Arimo, a Big Data company headquartered in California, USA. Arimo raised more than $20M from top tier VC and provided data science as a service for global enterprises. Arimo, acquired by Panasonic Inc., was ranked as one of the top 10 most innovative tech startups in Big Data and AI by Fast Company Magazine in 2016. Thong got a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University with 5 patents in Computer Vision and AI.

PhD. Ngo Duc Thanh

Head of Department, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University

Ngo Duc Thanh (Ph.D), Head of Department, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University.
Ph.D Ngo Duc Thanh received his Ph.D in Informatics in 2013, from SOKENDAI University The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. The main research topics focus on the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.
In 2017, Dr. Ngo Duc Thanh was appointed as Head of Department, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University.

PhD. Nguyen An Nguyen

The Founder and CEO of Trusting Social

Dr. Nguyen An Nguyen is the Founder and CEO of Trusting Social. An economist, data scientist turned entrepreneur, Dr. Nguyen founded Trusting Social with the vision to enable universal financial inclusion with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Upon earning his Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University, USA, Dr. Nguyen joined Barclays Global Decision Science team in New York where he led and developed various analytical models for credit risk, fraud risk, collection and recovery for Barclays retail banking portfolios across Africa, Europe and America.
Founded in 2013 in Silicon Valley, Trusting Social is an AI company focused on solving financial inclusion on a global scale. Our credit enabling services combine pioneering AI with massive alternative data sources to evaluate credit profiles of (mostly) unbanked consumers and connect them to institutional lenders.
We are currently assessing the credit profiles of 1 billion consumers in Vietnam, Indonesia, India & the Philippines. In Vietnam, our first market, our credit insights have been used to underwrite 30% of all consumer loans. Our credit mediation service pre-qualified and introduced nearly 3 million borrowers to the right lenders in 2019.
Having developed the most accurate large-scale alternative credit score in the world, we have also launched a new suite of AI-based products to serve the financial services industry including state-of the-art e-KYC and a uniquely positioned Credit Hologram.

Prof. Dr. Vu Hai Quan

Vice Chancellor, Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Director, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Prof. Dr. Vu Hai Quan, Vice Chancellor, Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Director, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In February 2005, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a postdoc scholarship at Leuven University, a prestigious university in Belgium, and in the list of the top 100 universities in the world. In 2007, Dr. Vu Hai Quan took many important positions in VNUHCM, such as a Vice-Rector of the University of Science, Director of the International Training & Education Center (ITEC), and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AILab) at the University of Science. His team announced the “Southern Voice” software - a speech synthesis software based on the phonetic unit pairing method. Immediately, this software attracted the attention of the community, especially after receiving the Third Prize - Vietnam Talent Award 2009. In addition, Dr. Vu Hai Quan is also the founder of the Robotics-IoT Club of AILab Laboratory. His research interests are about AI, particularly including: Acoustic Modeling, Language Modeling for LVCSR; Corpus Developments (audio & text); Audio, Music Retrieval; Speech Translation. He has published various articles on international journals and participated in many academic research projects. He won two-time Vietnamese Talent Awards for the TTS and the Automatic Speech Recognition systems.

Vu Hong Viet

Director of Technology, Enterprise Business Services Division of FPT Software

Mr. Vu Hong Viet received his B.Eng. degree in Information Technology from HCMUT in 2000. He have has more than 20 years experience in software development industry. He was leading product development in transportation and deployed ITS solutions in HCMC such as Bus Management System (iBus - ASEAN ICT Awards 2017), Monitoring and controlling traffic signal (as of 200 intersection), Smart ticket for Public Passenger Transportation. He was project manager of xSeries, a special course program of FUNiX, the program is to train some certification such as Automotive/Machine Learning/Data Science/Blockchain Developer.

PhD. Do Thanh Binh

The Principal Technology Solution & Cloud Engineer in Oracle Corporation

Do Thanh Binh is a Principal Technology Solution & Cloud Engineer in Oracle Corporation. He works primarily in IT solution consulting, market development cross industries such as financial services, retail, distribution, and manufacturing, and leads a team of sales consultants focused on providing architecture advisory to IT and business executives in Vietnam. Binh also supports strategic customer and business partner/alliance engagements and is a frequent speaker at industry events on IT trends and cloud computing solutions, machine learning, data management, data analytics, and smart city. He has had more than 19 years of experience in the IT sector and holds an Executive MBA from University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM - Canada) and a B.S. degree in Management of Information Systems

PhD. Huy-Minh Xuan Doan

Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST), Ho Chi Minh City

Dr Huy-Minh was trained as a Business Analyst and received his PhD in MIS at Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, UK in 2013. His studies are focusing on technology-driven business models, business information systems and e-government.
Since 2018, he was a senior researcher in a project named “A numerical and experimental study of riverbank failure using high-performance computing on GPUs”. This is a 3-years Korea-Vietnam collaborative research, led by ICST’s Executive Director Prof. Nguyen Ky Phung. The main goal of this project is to apply parallel computing techniques to accelerate the numerical computing required in riverbank failure simulation.

Ph.D. Hieu N. Duong

Deputy Director of the Center of Computer Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

Hieu N. Duong is deputy director of the Center of Computer Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Before playing the role of deputy director, he used to be a lecturer at the Falculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology from 2002-2018. He received his Ph.D in VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2016. His research interests are Internet of Things, Data Science.

Petri Räsänen

The Development Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment for Finland

Mr Petri Räsänen (born 1966) obtained his MSc in Sociology, Business Administration and International Relations and L.Soc.Sc in Sociology. He has an extensive background in innovation related managerial positions in the public and private sectors, including VTT, Secgo Group and Hermia Group. In 2011 Petri was appointed as Director, Innovation and foresight at the Council of Tampere Region. Currently he is Development Director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment for Finland and responsible for policy design for digitalization of business and industry.

Rang Man Ho Nguyen

The Research Scientist – VinAI Research

Rang Nguyen is a Research Scientist at VinAI Research. Before joined VinAI Research, he was a Lecture at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology from 2018-2020. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2016. His research interests are Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning.

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Prof. Yoshua Bengjo

Hung Bui

Dr. Hsu Hui Huang

Prof. Vu Ha Van

Jesse Arlen Smith

A/Prof. Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Dao Viet Hang, M.D, PhD

Lam Thu Bui

A/Prof. Nguyen Viet Nhung, MD., PhD

Dr. Trinh Dinh Hoan

Dr. Nguyen Quy Ha

Le Thanh Ha

Tran Cong Quynh Lan

Le Hong Viet

Dr. Do Van Hai

Nguyen Xuan Phong

Vu Hong Chien

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Thuy

A/Prof. Ta Hai Tung

A/Prof. PhD. Nguyen Thanh Hien

Nam Thoai

Nguyen Hung

Ph.D. Dongwha Kum

A/Prof. PhD. Le Dinh Duy

MS. Le Nhat Quang

Le Yen Thanh

Ngo Dien Hy

Nguyen Viet Bang

M.Sc. Pham Thanh Toan

A/Prof. PhD. Quan Thanh Tho

PhD. Stefan Hajkowicz

Dr. Thong Do

PhD. Ngo Duc Thanh

PhD. Nguyen An Nguyen

Prof. Dr. Vu Hai Quan

Vu Hong Viet

PhD. Do Thanh Binh

PhD. Huy-Minh Xuan Doan

Ph.D. Hieu N. Duong

Petri Räsänen

Rang Man Ho Nguyen

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Nam Thoai

Tran Cong Quynh Lan

Hung Bui

Dao Viet Hang, M.D, PhD

Jesse Arlen Smith

Nguyen Xuan Phong

Vu Hong Chien

Prof. Yoshua Bengjo

Dr. Hsu Hui Huang

Lam Thu Bui

Prof. Vu Ha Van

Le Thanh Ha

A/Prof. PhD. Nguyen Thanh Hien

A/Prof. Nguyen Viet Nhung, MD., PhD

A/Prof. Ta Hai Tung

Dr. Nguyen Quy Ha

Dr. Trinh Dinh Hoan

Dr. Do Van Hai

Le Hong Viet

Nguyen Hung

Ph.D. Dongwha Kum

A/Prof. PhD. Le Dinh Duy

MS. Le Nhat Quang

Le Yen Thanh

Ngo Dien Hy

Nguyen Viet Bang

M.Sc. Pham Thanh Toan

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