THE JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN GLOBE

The path to the 2021 Golden Globe Award of Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh (born in 1986, lecturer at VNUHCM-University of Science has left a lasting impression on the science and technology community both domestically and internationally.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh and colleagues during a research session. Photo: TG

Leaving to Come Back

After completing the Bachelor's program in Mathematics - Computer Science as the top graduate of VNUHCM-University of Science in 2008, Nguyen Thanh Binh continued his academic and scientific research journey abroad. He obtained a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Orleans (France) in 2009. After successfully defending his doctoral thesis (with distinction) at the Ecole Polytechnique, Nguyen Thanh Binh returned to work at the Faculty of Mathematics - Computer Science, University of Science from 2013 until now.

In his 8 years of teaching and research, he has authored over 50 scientific papers, including 10 published in prestigious international journals such as SIAM Review (SCI Q1, IF = 14.686), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (SCI Q1, IF = 1.718), Knowledge-based System (SCI Q1, IF = 8.038), Information Sciences (SCI Q1, IF = 6.795), NeuroComputing (SCI Q1, IF = 5.719)...

To win the prestigious Golden Globe Award presented by the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union Central Committee and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh submitted 4 international patents related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the field of product quality assessment in factories and manufacturing workshops.

Among them, he holds a patent granted in the United States in July 2021 related to the construction of an automatic fabric quality evaluation system in the garment industry using spectroscopy devices.

This is the world's first patent related to this system and is being implemented in enterprises. The remaining three patents awaiting approval are related to the development of AI systems to predict potential errors in the garment manufacturing process. And the patent "Automatic Assessment of Production Quality in Garment Factories through Historical Appraisal Data and Risk Estimation in Order Production Processes" in industrial factories. These patents are being applied in practice.

Focusing on research on AI applications in agriculture and the environment, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh said: "I like to expand research with practical applications. Currently, I am focusing on AI because artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role and has many different applications in social life. The applied research I am conducting will save a lot of production costs, increase productivity for enterprises in the industrial sector, and gradually improve production results in agriculture in Vietnam."

Completing his PhD with distinction in France with many opportunities for work abroad, but still determined to return to work in Vietnam, because, according to him, Vietnam still has his mother, his homeland, friends, and colleagues.

"More importantly, I want to contribute and serve my homeland, to live and work as a scientist in my homeland, my country. Although I know there will be many difficulties because the conditions for scientific research cannot be compared to those abroad, I think it's a unique and interesting challenge, which gives me more motivation. Returning to the country for nearly 10 years, I feel that my choice is completely accurate and I am proud of what I have achieved," Dr. Binh shared.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh (center) at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards ceremony

The Joy of an Inspirational Figure

According to Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh, all algorithms and algorithms in all machine learning models of artificial intelligence applications contain optimal models, complex calculations, and estimations using mathematical tools to solve problems.

"The role of mathematics is extremely important in building tools and algorithms in machine learning. From there, we can apply these tools and algorithms to build expert systems, artificial intelligence systems for real-world problems. I feel lucky to be a mathematician and to study deeply about mathematics. In fact, mathematics is wonderful because it solves almost every problem in today's life," Dr. Binh shared.

As evidence of the success of optimizing mathematics in the research field, in 2021, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh had a practical research work using AI in applications, specifically: The work "Multi-source Machine Learning for AQI Estimation" proposes a machine learning approach to predict air pollution levels in big cities.

In this work, the research team created an IoT device to collect pollution data on various roads through districts and counties from Nha Be district, District 4, District 1, District 3, District 10, Binh Thanh district, District 2, Thu Duc district and developed a predictive model with high accuracy. The research results were accepted for presentation at the IEEE Big Data Conference. The research work was published in January 2021.

He and his research team also built practical application systems such as sentiment analysis systems with the work "A Novel Approach for Enhancing Vietnamese Sentiment Classification" presented at the SoMeT 2021 Conference, automatic Question-Answering systems (Question Answering platform) with the work "SPBERT: An Efficient Pre-training BERT on SPARQL Queries for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs" presented at the ICONIP 2021 Conference...

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh believes that to shape scientific research products in the market, the support of enterprises and companies is needed to bridge the gap, helping scientific research results to be turned into specific applications. In addition, the attention and support of the state will be extremely valuable encouragement, creating a foundation to quickly bring research products and inventions into life.

Source: Education Times

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