Trần Gia Quốc Bảo

Gia Quoc Bao TRAN

Short Biography

I am Gia Quoc Bao TRAN (Trần Gia Quốc Bảo in Vietnamese), born in 1997 in Saigon – HCM City, Vietnam. Since August 2025, I have been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, where I work with Prof. Daniel Liberzon with collaboration from Prof. Hyungbo Shim. From May to July 2025, I had the same job at Control and Dynamic Systems Lab., Seoul National University, South Korea, working with Prof. Hyungbo Shim. From January to March 2025, I was a Visiting Researcher at Hori Lab, Keio University, Japan, working with Prof. Yutaka Hori and Prof. Shinji Hara.

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.

My research interests include nonlinear, hybrid systems and multi-agent systems, especially observer design problems.

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Controllability testing in MATLAB: Numerical considerations

NEWS!

14 Apr. 2026: Hat-trick of papers at the 23rd IFAC World Congress!
13 Apr. 2026: Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
25 Feb. 2026: Our paper was accepted by Control Engineering Practice.
20 Feb. 2026: Our paper was accepted by Automatica.
21 Aug. 2025: I became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
07 Jun. 2025: Our paper 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 became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Seoul National University, South Korea.
06 Jan. 2025: I became 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 was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
24 Nov. 2023: Our chapter about hybrid observers will be published in this book on Springer next February.
14 Oct. 2023: Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
12 Jul. 2023: Our paper 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 became a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA.
03 Mar. 2023: Our paper 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.
15 Jul. 2022: The first paper from my Ph.D. was accepted by this year's IEEE CDC in Mexico.
21 Jun. 2022: Our paper (resulting from my Master thesis) was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
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.
08 Jun. 2020: I started my research at The University of Tokyo.
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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