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2020 Interviewers of the Vingroup Science and Technology Scholarship Program for Overseas Study

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THE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE 2020 VINGROUP SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR OVERSEAS STUDY FOR MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL DEGREES

By mid-August 2020, the Vingroup Science and Technology Scholarship Program for Overseas Study for Master’s and Doctoral Degrees has completed the selection process for Track 1 of the 2020 Cohort and Track 2 of the 2021 Cohort.

More than 20 distinguished professors from the leading universities in the world have participated and served as the technical interview panelists in order to select the most deserving candidates for the Vingroup Scholarships. Through the interviews, the Selection Committee could evaluate the qualifications, suitability as well as get to know more about the future plan of the candidates apart from what has been stated in the application dossier.

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Our criteria are to choose students who are able to attend the top universities in the world and become excellent students at those universities. The applicants must be competitive. The quality of the applications we have received and recommended has satisfied such requirements.

Prof. Minh DoVice-Provost, VinUniversity
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It is my pleasure to interview several students for the Vingroup Scholarship Program. I’d like to tell you that any of them that I recommended were excellent students and they can be successful in any number of universities around the world and go on from there are successful careers. I’d like to commend Vingroup for sponsoring this Program, I think it is a great opportunity to help build the human resource of Vietnam.

Prof. Raymond VitoVice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Vingroup Scholarship Program is pleased to introduce these prominent professors in the Selection Committee of the Vingroup Scholarship Program.

Note: The list below is sorted alphabetically by surname. 

Prof. Narendra AHUJA

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Chandrajit BAJAJ

University of Texas at Austin
  • Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization
  • Professor of Computer Science
  • Director of Center for Computational Visualization

Prof. James CREMER

University of Iowa
  • Professor of Computer Science

Prof. Stephen DIRECTOR

Northeastern University
  • Provost Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Minh Do

Vice-Provost, VinUniversity
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Vu N. Duong

Honorary Dean of College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity
  • Director, Air Traffic Management Research Institute, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

Prof. Wenke LEE

Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Professor and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair in the School of Computer Science
  • Director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy at Georgia Tech

A/Prof. Ping LIU

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  • Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization
  • Director of Center for Computational Visualization

Prof. Stephen MAYO

California Institute of Technology
  • William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
  • Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry

Prof. Naira HOVAKIMYAN

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Grafton and Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Prof. Rajat MITTAL

Johns Hopkins University
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. James FOLEY

Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Professor of Interactive Computing and the Fleming Chair in Telecommunications

Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
  • Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
  • Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Prof. Truong NGUYEN

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Robert SAH

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
  • Professor of Bioengineering
  • Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Prof. Isaac SANCHEZ

University of Texas at Austin
  • William J. (Bill) Murray, Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering

Prof. Cyrus SHAHABI

University of Southern California
  • Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Spatial Sciences
  • Chair of Computer Science Department

Prof. Evangelos THEODOROU

Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Trac TRAN

Johns Hopkins University
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Raymond VITO

Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Professor Emeritus

Prof. Volker VOGT

Cornell University
  • Professor of Molecular Biology

Prof. Ward WINER

Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Regents’ Professor and Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair, Emeritus George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Marianne WINSLETT

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Professor of Computer Science