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I am Gia Quoc Bao TRAN (Trần Gia Quốc Bảo in Vietnamese), born in 1997 in Saigon – HCM City, Vietnam. Since May 2025, I have been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Control and Dynamic Systems Lab., Seoul National University, South Korea. From January to March 2025, I was a Visiting Researcher at Hori Group, Keio University, Japan.
From November 2021 to October 2024, I pursued a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Automatic Control at the Centre Automatique et Systèmes (CAS) of Mines Paris - PSL, a constituent institution of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), France. In April and May 2023, I was a Visiting Researcher at Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), USA. My Ph.D. research focused on Observer Design for Hybrid Systems, and I worked mainly with three esteemed advisors/collaborators: Prof. Pauline Bernard and Prof. Florent Di Meglio at CAS and Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice at UCSC.
I earned my Engineering Diploma (Diplôme d’Ingénieur) in Automatic Control from Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes, with the Highest Honors (Mention Très Bien), in 2021. Prior to that, I completed 4 years of Mechatronics studies through the Vietnamese-French Training Program of Excellent Engineers (PFIEV) at the Vietnam National University HCM City, University of Technology. I was a research intern at GIPSA-Lab, France, and The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2021 and 2020.
I have received several honors and awards, including being a Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher, the Honda Y-E-S Award (awarded to 10 selected students in Vietnam), and three prizes in the National Student Olympics of Mechanics.
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07 Jun. 2025: Our paper "Systematic Interval Observer Design for Linear Systems" was accepted by Automatica.
29 May 2025: I had an interview in the "Ph.D.s in Control" series of IEEE Control Systems.
01 May 2025: I started my work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Seoul National University, South Korea.
06 Jan. 2025: I started my work as a Visiting Researcher at Keio University, Japan.
22 Nov. 2024: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: Observer Design for Hybrid Systems.
05 Sep. 2024: I was selected for the Student Travel Support and Student Workshop Support for the 63rd IEEE CDC.
24 Jul. 2024: Hat-trick of papers at the 63rd IEEE CDC! Check them out here.
23 Apr. 2024: Our paper "A Unified KKL-Based Interval Observer for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems" was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
07 Mar. 2024: Our paper "Fault Estimation Observers for the Vehicle Suspension with a Varying Chassis Mass" was accepted by 12th IFAC SAFEPROCESS.
24 Nov. 2023: Our chapter about hybrid observers will be published in this book on Springer next February.
14 Oct. 2023: Our full paper "Arbitrarily Fast Robust KKL Observer for Nonlinear Time-Varying Discrete Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
12 Jul. 2023: Our paper "Kalman-Like Observer for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times" was accepted by 62nd IEEE CDC.
07 Apr. 2023: I presented a poster at the 5th NorCal Control Workshop at UC Berkeley.
03 Apr. 2023: I started my work as a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA.
03 Mar. 2023: Our paper "Coupling Flow and Jump Observers for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times" was accepted by 22nd IFAC WC.
14 Feb. 2023: I obtained the Mines Paris Foundation International Mobility Scholarship for my research visit at UCSC, USA.
7 Dec. 2022: I obtained the FSMP Doctoral Student Mobility Scholarship for my research visit at UCSC, USA.
18 Sep. 2022: I attended this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum, supported by the SAP Grant. See my HLF poster here.
16 Jul. 2022: Our paper "Non Linear Parameter Varying Observer based on Descriptor Modeling for Damper Fault Estimation" was accepted by IFAC Joint Conference SSSC – TDS – LPVS.
15 Jul. 2022: The first paper from my Ph.D., "Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times", was accepted by this year's IEEE CDC in Mexico.
21 Jun. 2022: Our paper "Unified Generalized H2 Nonlinear Parameter Varying Observer: Application to Automotive Suspensions" (resulting from my Master thesis) was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
23 Feb. 2022: Our paper "Multi-Objective Grid-Based Lipschitz NLPV PI Observer for Damper Fault Estimation" (resulting from my Master thesis) was accepted by IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2022.
01 Nov. 2021: I started my Ph.D. work on Observer Design for Hybrid Systems.
14 Oct. 2021: I graduated as an engineer in Automatic Control with Highest Honors!
03 May 2021: I started my end-of-studies internship (for my Master thesis) at GIPSA-Lab.
27 Apr. 2021: Our paper "NMPC Through qLPV Embedding: A Tutorial Review of Different Approaches" (from my research project) was accepted by IFAC NMPC 2021.
23 Apr. 2021: Our paper "Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer: Application to a Semi-Active Suspension System" (resulting from my research project) was accepted by IFAC LPVS 2021.
30 Mar. 2021: My first journal article "Integrated Comfort-Adaptive Cruise and Semi-Active Suspension Control for an Autonomous Vehicle: An LPV Approach" (from my research project) was published.
21 Sep. 2020: I started my research at GIPSA-Lab on "Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer and LPV MPC for a Semi-Active Suspension System".
08 Jun. 2020: I started my research at The University of Tokyo on "Automotive Control Using Surface Electromyography".
27 Jan. 2020: I started my research at GIPSA-Lab on "Comfort-Oriented Adaptive Cruise Control of an Autonomous Vehicle".
07 Dec. 2019: I was one of the ten Vietnamese students selected this year for the Honda Young Engineer and Scientist's Award. My sharing on winning the award is available on YouTube (in Vietnamese, with English subtitles).
27 Aug. 2019: I arrived in France for my studies.
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