Prof. Thanh N. Truong received his Ph.D. degree in Computational Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1990. After spending his NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Houston, Prof. Truong moved to the University of Utah in 1992 where he currently is a Professor of Chemistry. In 2007, he was appointed as the Director of the newly established Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST) in Ho-Chi-Minh City. ICST is a working model for how overseas Vietnamese scientists can contribute to research and education in Vietnam but there are still many challenges.
Dr. Truong is author or co-author of more than 170 publications and an US/International patent. His current research spans several areas including development and application of theoretical and computational methods for studying structure, reactivity, spectroscopy of chemical processes in combustion systems, in biological systems, and heterogeneous catalytic systems. He is also leading the efforts in developing cyber-infrastructure for research, collaboration, and education in computational science and engineering, known as the Computational Science and Engineering Online (http://CSE-Online.net). This technology is now being commercialized by Astonis (http://www.astonis.com).
