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), US |
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08.2019 – 08.2024 |
Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate Professor in 2024), Mississippi State University (MSU), US |
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07.2017 – 07.2019 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University (SMU), US |
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08.2014 – 06.2017 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced, US |
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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
Please see the Research page .
Grants
Please see the Grants page .
Publications
Please see the Publications page .
Invited/Contributed Presentations
Please see the Presentations page .
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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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 ). |
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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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04.2018 |
SMU news: Animations that are true to life |
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10.2017 |
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
Please see the Teaching page .
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 Invitations
For Mathematical Reviews (AMS) and the following 25 journals published by SIAM, Elsevier, Springer, De Gruyter, IEEE, Wiley:
- Mathematics of Computation
- SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (SINUM)
- Numerische Mathematik
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC)
- Journal of Computational Physics (JCP)
- BIT Numerical Mathematics (BIT)
- Journal of Scientific Computing (JSC)
- Computers and Mathematics with Applications (CAMWA)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM)
- Applied Numerical Mathematics (APNUM)
- Applied Mathematics and Computation (AMC)
- Journal of Computational Mathematics (JCM)
- ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis
- Numerical Algorithms
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM)
- Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA)
- International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling (IJNAM)
- Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences (MMA)
- International Journal of Computational Methods (IJCM)
- Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (JMC)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Afrika Matematika (AFMA)
- International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (IJNSNS)
- 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 ).
Judging
- Poster, SIAM CSE 2021
- Graduate Research Symposium 2022, MSU
Membership
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ), since 2016