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Education

• Texas A&M University - College Station, TX.
  Spring 2012 (expected): Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
  GPA: 4.0/4.0.
  Advisors: Dr. Henry D. Pfister and Dr. Krishna R. Narayanan.

• Hanoi University of Technology - Hanoi, Vietnam.
  May 2004: B.Eng. with excellent degree in Electronics & Telecommunications.

Professional experience

• Texas A&M University - College Station, TX.
  Research Assistant: Sep. 2008 - present.

  • Conduct research on coding theory with applications in wireless communications, magnetic recoding and data storage systems.

  • Design and analyze soft-decision decoding algorithms for Reed-Solomon codes that provide a significant coding gain and are efficiently implementable in hardware.

  • Analyze and design coding schemes using spatially-coupled LDPC codes, with focus on channels with memory and multi-user communication, that universally approach the fundamental limit.

• Vietnam Datacommunication Company (VDC) - Hanoi, Vietnam.
  Network Engineer: Sep. 2004 - Jul. 2006.

  • Design, install, maintain, and support (LAN/WAN) network solutions for clients.

Publications

(see more details in Research).

Honors & Awards

• Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2009.

• Electrical Engineering Departmental Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.

• Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) fellowship, since 2006.

• Distinguished Academic Achievement Award, Hanoi University of Technology, 2004.

• Second Prize, Vietnam National Mathematical Olympiad (VMO), 1998.

Presentations

Oral presentations

• Feb. 09, 2011, “On multiple decoding attempts for Reed-Solomon codes: A rate-distortion approach,” delivered to Information Theory and Applications (ITA) workshop, UCSD, CA, USA (Graduation Day talk). Slides

• Fall 2010, Guest lecturer for the graduate course in Channel Coding, Texas A&M University.

• Jun. 15, 2010, “A rate-distortion exponent approach to multiple decoding attempts for Reed-Solomon codes,” delivered to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, USA.

• Oct. 01, 2009, “A rate-distortion perspective on multiple decoding attempts for Reed-Solomon codes,” delivered to 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA.

Poster presentations

• Aug. 11, 2009, “A rate-distortion perspective on multiple decoding attempts for Reed-Solomon codes,” delivered to 2nd Annual School of Information Theory, Northwestern University, IL, USA.

• Oct. 17, 2008, “A multiple errors-and-erasures decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes,” delivered to 1st Annual Winedale Workshop on Signals and Systems, Round Top, TX, USA.

Professional Training

• Forth Annual School of Information Theory, University of Texas at Austin, May 2011.

• Second Annual School of Information Theory, Northwestern University, August 2009.

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), March 2005.

Graduate Courses

Channel Coding for Communications, Advanced Channel Coding, Information Theory, Wireless Communications, Statistical Communication Theory, Convex Optimization, Modulation Theory, Estimation & Detection Theory, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Data Compression, Real Analysis I & II, Linear Network Analysis, Design & Analysis of Comm. Networks.

Computer Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Perl, PHP, HTML.

• Software Packages: Matlab/Simulink, Mathematica, LaTeX/LyX.

• Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux.