Previous Members
2011 Members
Prof. Ngô Bảo Châu
A native of Hanoi, North Vietnam, Ngô Bảo Châu has made decisive advances in modern mathematics
on the frontier of number theory and representation theory. His contribution is the proof of the
fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program, which had vexed mathematicians for three decades.
Time magazine listed this work as one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009. Ngô’s honors include
the the 2010 Fields Medal, Oberwolfach Prize, Prix Sophie Germain de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris
and Clay Research Award. He also has delivered invited addresses to the International Congress of
Mathematicians in 2006 and 2010. As a high–school student in 1988 and 1989 he received gold medals
at the International Mathematical Olympiad. It is a great honor for VEFFA to have Dr. Ngô as a member of our BoA for the term 2011.
Dr. Quan Le
Dr. Quan Le got his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from Hanoi National University in 1996 and2000 respectively. He was with VNPT from 1996 to 2001 before finishing PhD degree inElectrical Engineering from Information and Communication University (ICU), Daejeon,Korea (now merged into KAIST), in 2006. After graduation, Dr. Quan LE joined Honam Research Center, ETRI as Senior Engineer until 2009, where he was in charge of burst-mode optical receiver IC development. In 2010, he joined Viettel Group, and now he is Director of Civil Electronics Research Center in Viettel R&D Institute of Viettel Group, the biggest telecom operator in Vietnam. His responsibility includes developing end-user terminals and network equipments for telecom network, such as 3G USB dongle, 3Gmobile handset, Metro Ethernet Switch, etc. His research interest includes RF IC design,burst-mode IC design, consumer products and telecom network equipment design and manufacturing.
Nguyễn Chí Kiên
Kiên is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include network security, hypothesis testing, and game theory. He holds an M.S. in ECE (UIUC), M.Eng.Sc. in Telecommunications (University of New South Wales, Australia), and a B.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunications (Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam). He has worked at VTC Telecommunications (a subsidiary of Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Corporation) as a design engineer, L. M. Ericsson (Vietnam) as a system engineer, and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (Germany) as a research intern. He is Chair of VEFFA Board of Advisers.