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I am G. Q. Bao Tran (Trần Gia Quốc Bảo in Vietnamese), born in 1997 in Saigon – HCM City, Vietnam. Since Aug. 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 Jul. 2025, I had the same job at Control and Dynamic Systems Lab., Seoul National University, South Korea, working with Prof. Hyungbo Shim. From Jan. to Mar. 2025, I was a Visiting Researcher at Hori Lab, Keio University, Japan, working with Prof. Yutaka Hori and Prof. Shinji Hara.
From Nov. 2021 to Oct. 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 Apr. 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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May 11 2026: I got the D&I Travel Support from this year's IFAC World Congress.
Apr. 25 2026: I attended 12th MWCGT and presented a lightning talk + poster.
Apr. 20 2026: Our paper "Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Systems: Non-Periodic Case" (1st paper from my postdoc) was accepted by MTNS.
Apr. 14 2026: Hat-trick of papers at the 23rd IFAC World Congress!
Apr. 13 2026: Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Feb. 25 2026: Our paper was accepted by Control Engineering Practice.
Feb. 20 2026: Our paper was accepted by Automatica.
Aug. 21 2025: I became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jun. 07 2025: Our paper was accepted by Automatica.
May 29 2025: I had an interview in the "Ph.D.s in Control" series of IEEE Control Systems.
May 01 2025: I became a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Seoul National University, South Korea.
Jan. 06 2025: I became a Visiting Researcher at Keio University, Japan.
Nov. 22 2024: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: Observer Design for Hybrid Systems.
Sep. 05 2024: I was selected for the Student Travel Support and Student Workshop Support for the 63rd IEEE CDC.
Jul. 24 2024: Hat-trick of papers at the 63rd IEEE CDC! Check them out here.
Apr. 23 2024: Our paper was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
Nov. 24 2023: Our chapter about hybrid observers will be published in this book on Springer next February.
Oct. 14 2023: Our paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Jul. 12 2023: Our paper was accepted by 62nd IEEE CDC.
Apr. 07 2023: I presented a poster at the 5th NorCal Control Workshop at UC Berkeley.
Apr. 03 2023: I became a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA.
Mar. 03 2023: Our paper was accepted by 22nd IFAC WC.
Feb. 14 2023: I obtained the Mines Paris Foundation International Mobility Scholarship for my research visit at UCSC, USA.
Dec. 07 2022: I obtained the FSMP Doctoral Student Mobility Scholarship for my research visit at UCSC, USA.
Sep. 18 2022: I attended this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum, supported by the SAP Grant. See my HLF poster here.
Jul. 15 2022: The first paper from my Ph.D. was accepted by this year's IEEE CDC in Mexico.
Jun. 21 2022: Our paper (resulting from my Master thesis) was accepted by IEEE L-CSS.
Nov. 01 2021: I started my Ph.D. work on Observer Design for Hybrid Systems.
Oct. 14 2021: I graduated as an engineer in Automatic Control with Highest Honors!
May 03 2021: I started my end-of-studies internship (for my Master thesis) at GIPSA-Lab.
Jun. 08 2020: I started my research at The University of Tokyo.
Dec. 07 2019: I was one of the ten Vietnamese students selected this year for the Honda Young Engineer and Scientist's Award.
Aug. 27 2019: I arrived in France for my studies.
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