My up-to-date profile (excluding my research topics and record) is found below.
Mines Paris, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)
Nov. 2021 – Oct. 2024
Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics and Automatic Control | CAS – Centre Automatique et Systèmes
Dissertation: Observer Design for Hybrid Systems | Dissertation defense slides: [PDF]
Advisors/collaborators: Prof. Pauline Bernard, Prof. Florent Di Meglio (CAS), and Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Ph.D. committee: 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 (advisor), Prof. Florent Di Meglio (advisor), and Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice (guest)
Main publications: [TAC'25], [Automatica'25], [CDC'24a], [CDC'24b], [Springer'24], [TAC'23], [CDC'23], [WC'23], [CDC'22]
Other works: [Automatica'25], [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
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Aug. 2025 – Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Topic: Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Daniel Liberzon
Collaborator: Prof. Hyungbo Shim
Control and Dynamic Systems Lab., Seoul National University
May – Jul. 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Topic: Gluing Observer/Controller for Hybrid Systems
Advisor: Prof. Hyungbo Shim
Jan. – Mar. 2025
Visiting Researcher
Topic: Multi-Agent Estimation Problems in Synthetic Biology
Advisors: Prof. Yutaka Hori and Prof. Shinji Hara
Fundings (personally secured): Honda Y-E-S Award Plus
Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz
Apr. – May 2023
Visiting Researcher
Topic: Output-Feedback Control of Hybrid Systems
Advisors: Prof. Ricardo G. Sanfelice and Prof. Pauline Bernard
Fundings (personally secured): FSMP Doctoral Student Mobility Scholarship, Mines Paris Foundation International Mobility Scholarship
GIPSA-Lab, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UGA
May – Oct. 2021
Research Intern (engineering thesis project)
Topic: Development of State/Fault Estimation Methods and Fault-Tolerant Control Experiments for the Semi‐Active Suspension
Advisors: Prof. Olivier Sename and Dr. Thanh Phong Pham
Sep. 2020 – Jan. 2021
Research Intern
Topic: Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer and LPV MPC for the Semi-Active Suspension System
Advisor: Prof. Olivier Sename
K. Nakano Lab, The University of Tokyo
Jun. – Sep. 2020
Research Intern
Topic: Automotive Control Using Surface Electromyography
Advisor: Prof. Kimihiko Nakano
GIPSA-Lab, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and UGA
Jan. – Jun. 2020
Research Intern
Topic: Comfort-Oriented Adaptive Cruise Control of an Autonomous Vehicle
Advisor: Prof. Olivier Sename
Control and Automation Lab, HCMUT
Apr. – Aug. 2019
Research Intern
Topic: Designing and Controlling an Inertia Wheel Pendulum
Advisor: Prof. Cong Bang Pham
Mechanical Workshop, HCMUT
Jan. – Apr. 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)
Teaching
Guest lecture, "Hybrid and switched observers," in ECE 586: Hybrid Systems and Control, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2026.
Membership
Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE CSS), 2024 – present
Graduate Student Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE CSS), 2020 – 2024
Graduate Student Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS), 2020 – 2023
Reviewership
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Automatica; Systems and Control Letters; IEEE Control Systems Letters; International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; Control Engineering Practice; European Journal of Control; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; Journal of The Franklin Institute
Conferences: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC); American Control Conference (ACC); IFAC World Congress; European Control Conference (ECC); International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 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); Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)
Seminars/talks
"Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Systems"
- 12th MWCGT (lightning talk + poster), Purdue University, Apr. 2026.
- Mines Paris – PSL, Mar. 2026.
- CSL Student Conference, UIUC, Feb. 2026.
- HyDDRA, Feb. 2026.
- HCMUT, Dec. 2025.
"Gluing KKL Observer for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times"
- Seoul National University, May 2025.
- Kyoto University, Mar. 2025.
- CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL), Jan. 2025. [Slides]
- Keio University, Jan. 2025. [Slides]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems (with Known Jump Times)"
- University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, Dec. 2024.
- Uppsala University, Oct. 2024.
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Oct. 2024.
- LAGEPP, CNRS & Université Lyon 1, Feb. 2024.
- 44th Grenoble Summer School of Automatic Control (student presentation), Aug. 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, Dec. 2023. [Slides]
- Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Aug. 2023.
"Coupling Flow- and Jump-Based Observers for Hybrid Systems with Nonlinear Maps and Known Jump Times"
- ICPEC 2023, Dec. 2023.
- VNCR Ph.D. Seminars, Mar. 2023. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
- Réunion du Comité Technique SDH, Feb. 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), Aug. 2023.
- Journée du Groupe de Travail SYNOBS, Dec. 2022. [Slides]
- Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Aug. 2022. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
- University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, Aug. 2022. [Slides]
"Hybrid Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition", 2022 Vietnamese Control and Robotics Workshop, Jun. 2022. [Slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
"Nonlinear Parameter-Varying Observers: Application to Semi-Active Suspensions", Vietnam Power Electronics Community (VPEC), Apr. 2022. [Abstract, slides, recording (in Vietnamese)]
"State and Fault Estimation for Semi-Active Suspensions", University of Da Nang – University of Technology and Education, Jan. 2022. [Slides]
Conferences
"Towards Parameter and Unknown Input Estimation for Multi-Rotors", SICE ISCS (extended abstract), Mar. 2025. [Slides]
"Towards Gluing KKL Observer for Hybrid Systems with Unknown Jump Times", 63rd IEEE CDC, Dec. 2024. [Slides]
"Constructible Canonical Form and High-Gain Observer in Discrete Time", 63rd IEEE CDC, Dec. 2024. [Slides]
"A Unified KKL-Based Interval Observer for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems", 63rd IEEE CDC, Dec. 2024. [Slides]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems: Applications to Robotics and Hybrid Dynamics", 11th ENOC (extended abstract), Jul. 2024. [Slides]
"Kalman-Like Observer for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times", 62nd IEEE CDC, Dec. 2023. [Slides]
"Coupling Flow and Jump Observers for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times", 22nd IFAC WC, Jul. 2023. [Slides]
"Observer Design based on Observability Decomposition for Hybrid Systems with Linear Maps and Known Jump Times", 61st IEEE CDC, Dec. 2022. [Slides]
"Unified Generalized H2 Nonlinear Parameter Varying Observer: Application to Automotive Suspensions", 61st IEEE CDC, Dec. 2022. [Slides]
"Multi-Objective Grid-Based Lipschitz NLPV PI Observer for Damper Fault Estimation", 11th IFAC SAFEPROCESS, Jun. 2022. [Slides]
"Multi-Objective Unified qLPV Observer: Application to a Semi-Active Suspension System", 4th IFAC LPVS, Jul. 2021. [Slides]
"Surface Electromyography-Controlled Vehicle Braking Assistance System Using Deep Learning", 12th AHFE, Jul. 2021. [Slides]
Posters
"Stability of Slow-Fast Nonlinear Dynamics", 12th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Apr. 2026.
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Meet the Faculty Candidates Poster Session, 63rd IEEE CDC, Milan, Italy, Dec. 2024. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Journée de l'ED ISMME des doctorants, Mines Paris - PSL, Paris, France, Jun. 2024.
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems", Meet the Faculty Candidates Poster Session, 62nd IEEE CDC, Singapore, Dec. 2023. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems with Known Jump Times", 5th NorCal Control Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Apr. 2023. [PDF]
"Observer Design for Hybrid Systems by Observability Decomposition", 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany, Sep. 2022. [PDF, poster flash]
"Development of State and Fault Estimation Methods and Fault-Tolerant Control Experiments for Semi-Active Suspension", GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France, Oct. 2021. [PDF]
International Graduate School on Control (IGSC): Introduction to Nonlinear Systems & Control by Prof. Hassan Khalil
May 2022
An interview in the "Ph.D.s in Control" series of IEEE Control Systems:
Visiting CDSL, Seoul National University, South Korea:
Not about me but I'm in this NextCom committee (of IEEE CSS) and appeared in photos:
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
CDC Ambassador of NextCom (IEEE CSS), 2026 - Present
Member, Union of Vietnamese Students in France (UEVF), 2020 – 2025
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