My up-to-date profile (excluding my publication list) is found below.
Mines Paris, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
2021 – 2024
Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics and Automatic Control | CAS – Centre Automatique et Systèmes
Dissertation: Observer Design for Hybrid Systems | Defense slides: [PDF]
Supervisors/collaborators: Prof. Pauline Bernard, Prof. Florent Di Meglio (CAS), and Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Ph.D. jury: Dr. Romain Postoyan (jury president), Dr. Antoine Girard (reviewer), Prof. Nathan van de Wouw (reviewer), Prof. Angelo Alessandri (examiner), Prof. Hyungbo Shim (examiner), Prof. Pauline Bernard (supervisor), Prof. Florent Di Meglio (supervisor), and Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice (guest)
Main publications: [Preprint'25], [CDC'24a], [CDC'24b], [Springer'24], [TAC'23], [CDC'23], [WC'23], [CDC'22]
Other leisure-time works: [Preprint'24], [L-CSS'24], [Safeprocess'24]
Grenoble INP, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
2019 – 2021
Diplôme d'Ingénieur (French Engineering Degree), Automatic Control and Intelligent Systems
Highest GPA of the 2021 graduating cohort, Mention Très Bien (Highest Honors), with a full, merit-based scholarship for 2 years
University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University HCM City
2015 – 2019
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechatronics | Vietnamese – French Training Program of Excellent Engineers (PFIEV)
Ranking in GPA: 1st/111 in class PFIEV 2015
Le Hong Phong High School, HCM City
2012 – 2015
High school diploma, non-major class
Control and Dynamic Systems Lab., Seoul National University
May 2025 – Present
Visiting Scholar
Topic: Gluing Observer/Controller for Hybrid Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Hyungbo Shim
January – March 2025
Visiting Scholar
Topic: Multi-Agent Estimation Problems in Synthetic Biology
Supervisors: Prof. Yutaka Hori and Prof. Shinji Hara
Fundings: Honda Y-E-S Award Plus
Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz
April – May 2023
Visiting Scholar
Topic: Output-Feedback Control of Hybrid Systems
Supervisors: Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice and Prof. Pauline Bernard
Fundings: FSMP Doctoral Student Mobility Scholarship, Mines Paris Foundation International Mobility Scholarship
GIPSA-Lab, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UGA
May – October 2021
Research Intern (engineering thesis project)
Topic: Development of State/Fault Estimation Methods and Fault-Tolerant Control Experiments for the Semi‐Active Suspension
Supervisors: Prof. Olivier Sename and Dr. Thanh Phong Pham
Publications: [L-CSS'22], [LPVS'22], [SAFEPROCESS'22]
September 2020 – January 2021
Research Intern
Topic: Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer and LPV MPC for the Semi-Active Suspension System
Supervisor: Prof. Olivier Sename
K. Nakano Lab, The University of Tokyo
June – September 2020
Research Intern
Topic: Automotive Control Using Surface Electromyography
Supervisor: Prof. Kimihiko Nakano
Publications: [AHFE'21]
GIPSA-Lab, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UGA
January – June 2020
Research Intern
Topic: Comfort-Oriented Adaptive Cruise Control of an Autonomous Vehicle
Supervisor: Prof. Olivier Sename
Publications: [Electronics'2021], [VSDIA'20a], [VSDIA'20b]
Control and Automation Lab, HCMUT
April – August 2019
Research Intern
Topic: Designing and Controlling an Inertia Wheel Pendulum
Supervisor: Prof. Cong Bang Pham
Mechanical Workshop, HCMUT
January – April 2018
Intern
9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher 2022
One of this year's 20 recipients of the SAP Grant; one of this year's 30 young researchers selected to present a poster
The Honda Young Engineer and Scientist's Award
Awarded to the top 10 annually selected science and engineering students in Vietnam for their achievements in studies and research
Vietnam National Olympics of Mechanics Prizes
3rd Prizes in Fluid Mechanics (2019 and 2017), 3rd Prize in Theoretical Mechanics (2016, as a freshman)
International Excellence Scholarship 2019 – 2020 and 2020 – 2021
Full scholarship from Grenoble INP, UGA (€1000/month & 100% tuition waiver); renewed annually based on academic merits
Honda Y-E-S Award Plus
For a three-month research visit at Keio University, Japan in 2025
IEEE CSS Student Travel Support and Student Workshop Support
For attending the 63rd IEEE CDC in Milan, Italy in 2024
Doctoral Student Mobility Scholarship from the Mathematical Sciences Foundation of Paris (FSMP)
For a two-month research visit at UC Santa Cruz, USA in 2023
International Mobility Scholarship from the Mines Paris Foundation
For a two-month research visit at UC Santa Cruz, USA in 2023
Electronics 2022 Travel Award
For attending 11th IFAC SAFEPROCESS in Paphos, Cyprus in 2022
Kanden System Solutions – CUBE System Scholarship
Coteccons Scholarship
HCMUT Semestrial Excellence Scholarship, 2015 – 2019
First Prize in Physics, City Excellent High School Student Contest 2015, HCM City
Participant of PSL-iTeams (6th edition) 2022 – 2023
Junior Reviewer of the IEEE RAS Young Reviewer Program (RAS PIN number 282715)
Membership
Graduate Student Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE CSS), 2020 – present
Graduate Student Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS), 2020 – 2023
Associate Member, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society, elected June 2020
Reviewership
Journals: Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, IEEE Control Systems Letters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Control Engineering Practice, European Journal of Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of The Franklin Institute
Conferences: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC), European Control Conference (ECC), International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IFAC World Congress, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), IFAC Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON), IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control (SSSC), IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC)
Seminars/talks
"Gluing KKL Observer for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times"
- Kyoto University, March 2025.
- CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL), January 2025. [Slides]
- Keio University, January 2025. [Slides]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems (with Known Jump Times)"
- University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, December 2024.
- Uppsala University, October 2024.
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, October 2024.
- LAGEPP, CNRS & Université Lyon 1, February 2024.
- 44th Grenoble Summer School of Automatic Control (student presentation), August 2023.
- Hybrid Systems Laboratory (HSL), University of California Santa Cruz, May 2023.
"Kalman-Like Observer for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times"
- Journée du Groupe de Travail SYNOBS, December 2023. [Slides]
- Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), August 2023.
"Coupling Flow- and Jump-Based Observers for Hybrid Systems with Nonlinear Maps and Known Jump Times"
- ICPEC 2023, December 2023.
- VNCR Ph.D. Seminars, March 2023. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
- Réunion du Comité Technique SDH, February 2023. [Slides]
"Arbitrarily Fast Robust KKL Observer for Nonlinear Time-Varying Discrete Systems"
- 10th Vietnam Mathematical Congress (Hội nghị Toán học toàn quốc lần thứ 10), August 2023.
- Journée du Groupe de Travail SYNOBS, December 2022. [Slides]
- Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), August 2022. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
- University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, August 2022. [Slides]
"Hybrid Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition", 2022 Vietnamese Control and Robotics Workshop, June 2022. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
"Nonlinear Parameter-Varying Observers: Application to Semi-Active Suspensions", Vietnam Power Electronics Community (VPEC), April 2022. [Abstract, slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
"State and Fault Estimation for Semi-Active Suspensions", University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, January 2022. [Slides]
Conferences
"Towards Parameter and Unknown Input Estimation for Multi-Rotors", SICE ISCS (extended abstract), March 2025. [Slides]
"Towards Gluing KKL Observer for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times", 63rd IEEE CDC, December 2024. [Slides]
"Constructible Canonical Form and High-Gain Observer in Discrete Time", 63rd IEEE CDC, December 2024. [Slides]
"A Unified KKL-Based Interval Observer for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems", 63rd IEEE CDC, December 2024. [Slides]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems: Applications to Robotics and Hybrid Dynamics", 11th ENOC (extended abstract), July 2024. [Slides]
"Kalman-Like Observer for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times", 62nd IEEE CDC, December 2023. [Slides]
"Coupling Flow and Jump Observers for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times", 22nd IFAC WC, July 2023. [Slides]
"Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times", 61st IEEE CDC, December 2022. [Slides]
"Unified Generalized H2 Nonlinear Parameter Varying Observer: Application to Automotive Suspensions", 61st IEEE CDC, December 2022. [Slides]
"Multi-Objective Grid-Based Lipschitz NLPV PI Observer for Damper Fault Estimation", 11th IFAC SAFEPROCESS, June 2022. [Slides]
"Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer: Application to a Semi-Active Suspension System", 4th IFAC LPVS, July 2021. [Slides]
"Surface Electromyography-Controlled Vehicle Braking Assistance System Using Deep Learning", 12th AHFE, July 2021. [Slides]
Posters
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Meet the Faculty Candidates Poster Session, 63rd IEEE CDC, Milan, Italy, December 2024. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Journée de l'ED ISMME des doctorants, Mines Paris - PSL, Paris, France, June 2024.
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Meet the Faculty Candidates Poster Session, 62nd IEEE CDC, Singapore, December 2023. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times", 5th NorCal Control Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, USA, April 2023. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems by Observability Decomposition", 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2022. [PDF, poster flash]
"Development of State and Fault Estimation Methods and Fault-Tolerant Control Experiments for Semi-Active Suspension", GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France, October 2021. [PDF]
International Graduate School on Control (IGSC): Introduction to Nonlinear Systems & Control by Prof. Hassan Khalil
May 2022
September 2020
An interview on Tuổi Trẻ Newspaper entitled "Towards Motherland Wherever You Are":
https://tuoitre.vn/tran-gia-quoc-bao-huong-ve-que-me-du-o-bat-cu-dau-20230303234229498.htm
Me as one of the 6 Vietnamese young researchers to attend the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, on Tuổi Trẻ Newspaper:
https://tuoitre.vn/lam-nghien-cuu-can-dong-luc-va-dam-me-2022103108515308.htm
Me as one of the 10 recipients of the Honda Y-E-S Award 2019, on VNExpress:
https://vnexpress.net/hoc-bong-hon-30-000-usd-cho-sinh-vien-khoa-hoc-cong-nghe-ky-thuat-4024447.html
Member, Union of Vietnamese Students in France (UEVF), 2020 – Present
Examiner, Dong Hanh Scholarship, 2020 - Present
Doctoral Student Representative of Université PSL (within YouR PSL) in the Confederation of Young Researchers, 2021 – 2024
Young Ambassador, Young Ambassador Program of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region of France, 2019 – 2020
Participant (fully funded), Electrical Engineering Camp at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2018
Volunteer, National University Entrance Exam Support Program at HCMUT, 2016 – 2019