Speakers

Dr. Vuong Van Thanh is a lecturer at the School of Mechanical engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. He earned a Ph.D. degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2015. During his time as a doctoral student, his research focused on the interfacial fracture criterion of bi-material in submicron scale. After his graduation, he focused on studying the mechanical properties of nanowires and thin films using Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Currently, He focuses on the mechanical, electronic, and optical properties of 2D materials applied to nanoelectronics devices and artificial muscles. Moreover, he is also focusing on monolayer Janus materials as potential photocatalysts and thermoelectric materials.

Le Duc Anh is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo. He is also a researcher for PRESTO program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His PhD thesis is on the properties and device applications of Fe-based ferromagnetic semiconductors. During this time, he was awarded a Research Fellowship for Young Scientist from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has won several awards including a Nippon Broadcasting System Prize at the 29st Technology Grand Awards for Originality. He is currently working on crystal growth and physics of various magnetic materials, superconductor/ferromagnetic semiconductor hybrid structures, and topological materials, aiming for their device applications in spintronics and quantum computing.

Nguyen Tuan Hung is an assistant professor at the Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. He received a Ph.D. with a Joint Program for Leading Graduate Schools from Tohoku University in March 2019 with a shortened period. He was awarded the Aoba Society Prize for the Promotion of Science from Tohoku University in 2017, Research Fellowships for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2018, and Tohoku University Prominent Research Fellow in 2021. His research interests are in the theory and simulation of energy materials with applications to thermoelectricity, all-solid-state batteries, photovoltaics, and artificial muscles. He also was an author of the textbook “Quantum ESPRESSO Course for Solid-State Physics”.

Dr. Tu Ngoc Han is currently a researcher at Quantum Electron Device Research group at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS). She obtained PhD and MSc degrees from the Department of Physics, Tohoku University, and carried out her postdoctoral research at Quantum Solid State Physics Research Lab in NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTTBRL). Her research focuses on scrutinizing various aspects of condensed matter physics in microscopic scale, such as quantum coherence and quantum correlation, via developing quantum electron devices toward the advancement of quantum computers. Parts of the study have been published in peer review journals, including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Communication Materials, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letter …

Dr. Trung received the B.Eng. degree in control and automation engineering from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2015, and the M.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. Since 2022 April, he works for Factory Automation Systems Division, Okuma Corporation. His current research focuses on the motion control of flexible systems and robotics.

Dr. Kojima received the M.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. Since 2022, he has been a postdoc researcher at Global Innovation Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University. His current research focuses on the wearable robot arm. He is a Membership of Learned Societies of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Dr. Son Tong is a senior research engineer at Siemens, currently project manager and leading a R&D team of research engineers working on control, autonomous driving and AI engineering topics. He has been facilitating multiple technology developments at Siemens dealing with ADAS safety, comfort, and V&V processes. He was awarded Siemens PL Invention of the Year Award, and in the finalist of the AutoSens Award 2019 in most influential research. Moreover, his team has received multiple EU and Belgium research and innovation grants. Son Tong has been invited to speak in multiple industrial events (Autosens, ADAS&AV Expo…) and universities (Oxford, EPFL, Polimi,…). He also serves in the Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems conferences.

Dr. Ishizuka received the B.S., and M.S. from Meiji University, Japan in 2011, and 2013. He received Ph.D. from Keio University in 2016. He was an assistant professor with the faculty of engineering, Kagawa University from 2016 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor with the graduate school of engineering science of Osaka University. His research interests include haptics and soft robotics.

Dr. Pham Duc PHUC holds a Medical Degree from Hanoi Medical University (1995) and a Master’s degree in International Health from the University of Copenhagen (2003). He also attained a PhD degree (December 2011) from the University of Basel, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. He has been developing and participating in different initiatives with national and international partners to generate funding for research and training programs on health risks related to agriculture, livestock production, food system, water, wastewater, and sanitation, especially at the interface between human, animal, and environment, using an interdisciplinary approach (One Health). Dr. Phuc has specialist qualifications as an epidemiologist, and experience in health risk assessment, including 10 years as Coordinator of the Vietnam One Health University Network (VOHUN); Deputy Director of the Centre for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER), Hanoi University of Public Health; and Director of Institute of Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (IEHSD). He has been developing and participating in different initiatives with national and international donors and partners to generate funding for research and training on health risk assessment in water, environmental sanitation, and food safety. In doing so Dr. Phuc has collaborated closely with and built long term partnerships with various universities and academic research institutes in both human and animal health in the country and region. He has an interest in research by using the One Health approach. His experience in facilitating the training of trainers on One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH SMART) to develop the action plans for developing One Health workforce development, combating Antimicrobial Resistance, and controlling zoonotic diseases in Vietnam.

Dr. Vito is a Lecturer & McKenzie Research Fellow at the Department of Veterinary Biosciences. His current research focuses on the development of intervention strategies to mitigate the impact of zoonotic parasites on human populations in regions of the Asia Pacific. Dr. Vito obtained a PhD from the University of Bari (Italy) with a thesis on neglected zoonotic parasitic infections of dogs and cats. He built a strong network with several public and private institutions through study design, the writing of reports and grant proposals for studies on zoonotic diseases inflicting hardships on animal and human health in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Vito was the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Soulsby Fellowship in 2020 and the Odile Bain Memorial Prize in 2019. Dr. Vito is Associate/Specialist Editor of the international journals ‘Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases’, ‘Frontiers in Veterinary Science’ and ‘Parasites & Vectors (2018-2020)’, Topic and Guest Editor of ‘Pathogens’, Review Editor of ‘Frontiers in Neglected Tropical Diseases’, and served as reviewer of manuscripts submitted for publication in >30 international peer-reviewed journals in parasitology and tropical medicine.

Pawin Padungtod obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1993 and his PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology from Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA in 2002. 

In 2009, he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific as the Regional Project Coordinator and later worked as the Director of Animal-Human Interface Program of the U.S. Center of Disease Control, Southeast Asia Regional Office in Thailand from 2012 to 2015. He rejoined FAO country office for Viet Nam in 2016 as a senior technical coordinator and team leader for the Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases. 

Pawin has more than 15 years of experience working on antimicrobial resistance, animal, and zoonotic diseases. In Viet Nam, he has been conducting surveillance, develop risk reduction interventions and facilitate multisectoral collaboration to minimize health threat along animal value chain using One Health and inclusive approach.

Phan graduated Master’s program in Structural Engineering at Dongguk University, South Korea in 2011, and achieved his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Roma Tre University, Italy. He also got a postdoc position for 2 years at Roma Tre University. He is now working as a full-time lecturer at The University of Danang – University of Science and Technology and he is also a leader of the Natural Hazard Risk and Safety Control of Civil Infrastructures (RiSCI) at the University of Danang. His research interests focus on seismic vulnerability and risk of structures, seismic mitigation approaches, and natural hazard risk and resilience assessment of infrastructure. He is the author of more than 40 papers in international peer-review journals and conferences.

Dr. Duy-Hai Vo is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Technology and Education, The University of Danang, Vietnam and currently, he is a Post-Doctor at the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan. Dr. Vo finished the PhD program in May 2019 and then continued as a Postdoctoral fellow at NTUST. He is the author/co-author of 30 publications. His research mainly focused on construction materials, especially green materials for sustainable construction and civil engineerings, such as recycled aggregate concrete, high-performance concrete, alkali-activated materials, or eco-binder-friendly materials.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh (グエン タン ビン) received a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Danang. He obtained both Master degree (2017) and Ph.D. degree (2020) in Geotechnical Engineering from the Hokkaido University. At present he works as researcher at the Research & Development Center in Nippon Koei, Japan.
Dr. Nguyen Thanh Binh has been involved in several research and consulting projects associated with unsaturated soils, effect of runoff on stability of landslide, instability of rainfall-induced landslide, as well as earthquake analysis. His current research interests include mechanics of unsaturated soils, stability of rainfall/earthquake induced landslide, Geo-Engineering problems related to Sustainability, more recently early-warning system of landslide.

Dr. Kazunobu Hayakawa is Vice President of the Bangkok Research Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Thailand. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Keio University. He joined IDE-JETRO in 2008. Prior to the IDE-JETRO, he was a Research Associate in Keio University during 2005-2008. He was also a Visiting Fellow of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore during 2016-2018. His main research areas are international economics and economic geography. He has published his works in many journals such as Journal of International Economics and World Bank Economic Review. He also serves as an Editor of The Developing Economies and an Associate Editor of Asian Economic Journal.

Dr. Do Thi Hai Ninh received her BSc in Tourism management at Hanoi University of Business and Technology, Hanoi. She earned her PhD degree in Business management from Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST, Taiwan). She is currently a senior lecturer and Director of Marketing program at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH, Vietnam). Dr Ninh has extensive experience in data analysis for research, and in extracting value from data to improve outcomes and efficiency. Over the last few years, her research topics mainly focus on innovation, education and consumer behaviors

Dr. Nguyen Bich Ngọc is currently a lecturer at School of Trade and International Economics, National Economics University, Vietnam.

Trong-Thuc Hoang received a B.Sc. degree and an M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Science (HCMUS), Hochiminh city, Vietnam, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. In 2022, he graduated from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, with a Ph.D. degree in Engineering. From 2012 to 2017, he was a lecturer assistant at HCMUS. From 2019 to 2020, he was a research assistant at UEC. From 2019 to 2022, he was a research assistant at the Cyber-Physical Security Research Center (CPSEC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan. Since April 2022, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Computer and Network Engineering, UEC, Tokyo, Japan. His research interest mainly focuses on digital signal processing, computer architecture, cyber-security, and ultra-low power systems-on-a-chip.

Assoc. Prof. Hoang Van Phuc received PhD degree in Electronic Engineering (VLSI system) from The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan in 2012. He has worked as postdoc researcher, visiting scholar at UEC, Tokyo, Japan; Telecom Paris, France and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK during the period of 2012-2018. He is working as an Associate Professor, Director with Institute of System Integration, Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. He is serving as Vice Chair in International Affairs & Conferences, Radio-Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV). His research interests include hardware security, digital circuits and systems, embedded systems for the Internet of Things, and VLSI architecture for digital signal processing. He was the PI of 02 NAFOSTED funded projects and one World Bank funded project in hardware security. He was the Technical Program Chair of several IEEE international conferences such as ICDV 2017, MCSoC 2018, SigTelCom 2019, ATC 2020, APCCAS 2020 and ICICDT 2022.

Bich-Yen Nguyen joined Soitec in 2007 as a Senior Fellow managing the technology development of new Digital/RF-SOI device fields and applications including stacking 2.5D/3D applications using SmartcutTM. Today the RF and FD-SOI technologies have been widely adopted for wireless/5G communication, AIoT, and automotive. Prior to joining Soitec, Bich-Yen was a senior manager and Dan Noble Fellow at Freescale/Motorola. Bich-Yen has been recognized for her leadership and success in developing advanced material and CMOS technology for many IC products. She was also instrumental in developing and transferring new technologies to production since 1980.
Her honors and awards include the recipient of Dan Noble Fellow (2001), the highest technical award in Motorola, and the Master of Innovation Award (2003). National “Women in Technology Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), IEEE Fellow (2020). She holds over 200 worldwide patents and has authored/coauthored more than 250 technical papers on IC processes, integration, device, and circuit. She also serves on a technical and executive committee for premier international conferences.
Areas of Expertise
✧ Technical development and management: 40+ years of experience in managing IC technology development, and commercialization
✧ Leadership: generate technology roadmap, visionary, teambuilding, interpersonal skill, mentor/coach
✧ Networking: worldwide networking with industry, consortia, and academia

Dr. Le Duc Hung received a B.Sc. degree in physics and an M.Sc. degree in electronic physics from the University of Science–Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in advanced science and engineering from The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, in 2013. He joined research programs in Germany and Japan. His research interests include the design of digital systems on FPGA and integrated circuits, low-power digital IC design, digital signal processing, and biomedical signal processing. Currently, he is head of the Electronics Department and head of DESLAB, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Science, Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City.

XUAN-THUAN NGUYEN received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Electronics and Telecommunications and the M.Sc. degree in Microelectronics and VLSI design from the University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 2017. He was a co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Conference. After graduation, he joined the University of Toronto as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, where his research focused on energy-efficient machine learning accelerators for brain state classification. He is currently working at Intel as an FPGA IP Development Engineer, where he is developing the advanced external memory IPs for the Intel Agilex FPGA family.

Dr. Mai-Khanh is currently an assistant professor at Systems Design Lab (d.lab), The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2011. Dr. Mai-Khanh worked as a short-term project researcher at Toshiba SoC, R&D, 2016 and as a post-doctoral researcher from 2011 to 2013 at VLSI Design and Education Center (VDEC), The University of Tokyo. In 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Holland.
His research interests include integrated millimeter-wave/THz circuits/antennas and IoT sensing applications for aquaculture. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE NEWCAS 2017, the Best Paper Award of the Asian Symposium on Quality Electronic Design Symp. in 2010, the third rank of the Best Student Paper Award of the 9th IEEE NEWCAS 2011. He has served as a reviewer on IEEE Journal of Sensor, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), Springer Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, and Electronic Letters of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He was the chair of Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Vietnam-Japan Scientific Exchange Meeting 2017 and a TPC member of Intl. Conf. on Integrated Circuits, Design, and Verification (ICDV) 2017.

Phuong H. Nguyen obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) in 2002, and his Master’s degree from the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand) in 2004. Until 2006, he worked as a researcher at the Power Engineering Consulting Company No. 1, Electricity of Vietnam. He then started his PhD research at the Electrical Energy Systems research group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands). In 2010, he obtained his doctorate with his thesis entitled ‘Multi-Agent System based Active Distribution Networks’. In 2013, after being employed as a postdoc, he was appointed assistant professor at the same group. Currently, Phuong Nguyen is an associate professor with the research group Electrical Energy Systems at the TU/e department of Electrical Engineering
His research interests include applications of ICT in smart energy systems, distributed state estimation, control and operation of the power system, distributed and computational intelligence, and applications in the future power delivery system.

Hung Dinh Nguyen received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017. He joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as an assistant professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018. He is the Siebel Scholar class of 2017 on Energy Science. He worked on a number of joint projects supported by NSF and DOE and in collaboration with ISO New England, LANL, and PNNL.
His current research interests lie in complex systems; nonlinear dynamics and stability; power system operation, control, and optimization; Dynamic Security Assessment/Energy Management System; and smart grids.

Dr. Nguyen Dinh Hoa received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Talented Program from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2007, M. Eng degree in Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University in 2009, and PhD degree in Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo in 2014. After that, he worked as a Lecturer for Hanoi University of Technology until 1/2015, and then came back to Japan to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya until 12/2016. From 12/2016 to 12/2021, he was an Assistant Professor at International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER) and Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Since 12/2021, Dr. Nguyen has been an Associate Professor at the same institutes in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Dr. Nguyen’s research interests include modeling, optimization, and control towards low-carbon and autonomous energy systems, with particular focuses on renewables and distributed energy resources, smart grid, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and decentralized optimization.

Tuyen Vu received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Hanoi University of Science Technology, Vietnam, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Florida State University in 2016. From 2016 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Florida State University-Center for Advanced Power Systems (FSU-CAPS). From 2017 to 2018, he was a Research Faculty at the same research center. Since July 2018, he has been an Assistant Professor at Clarkson University, NY, USA. He is an affiliate member at the FSU-CAPS. His areas of interest include smart grid; power system dynamics, stability, and control; energy management and optimization; power systems cybersecurity, and integration of distributed energy resources into power systems.

Postdoctoral researcher with strong focus on microfabrication and design of Organ-/Lab-on-a-Chip systems and 12-year experience in research and development. Mathias Busek received his Master and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University (TU) Dresden in 2009 and 2018. During his first scientific appointment at the TU Berlin, he pioneered a micro-pneumatic organ-on-a-chip platform that is now commercially used for drug testing by TissUse GmbH. Later, he was project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute of Material Science and Beam Technology (IWS) in Dresden and lab manager for polymer microfabrication at the chair of Microsystems at the TU Dresden. In 2020, he was awarded a Scientia/Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship at the Hybrid Technology Hub – Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo. He is currently developing a pump-free organ-on-a-chip platform.

Tuan H. Nguyen is the CTO of Finnadvance from Finland, spending his career working on translational bio-inspired engineering technology to solve the challenges in medicine. Tuan is a biomedical engineer with a multidiscipline background, ranging from medical devices for point-of-care to organ-on-chip technology for pharmaceutical applications. Tuan came all the way from Vietnam to Finland after finishing his Master of Engineering degree in Biomedical Engineering at the International University HCMC to join the founding team of Finnadvance – a biotech start-up to develop organ-on-chip platforms to help reduce animal testing and accelerate drug research.
Tuan received the Marie-Curie Ph.D. fellowship from the EU Horizon 2020 program for his research to tackle rare diseases such as Vascular Anomalies using organ-on-chip platforms developed at Finnadvance and the University of Oulu, Finland. Tuan was also the visiting researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK, AstraZeneca, Sweden, and CEA Centre de Grenoble, France.

20021-2022 Project Researcher in the Department of mechanical engineering, Tokai University, Japan
2022 Received Ph.D. degree from Tokai University, Japan 2022- Project Researcher in the Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University, Japan

March / 1990 Master degree in Agricultural Chemistry at Hokkaido University
January / 1999 Ph.D. at Kyoto University

April, 1990 – April 2000 : Joined Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd.
Launched functional food for inhibitor of fat absorption (Chitosan with Vitamin C)
Launched Medical food for Ulcerative colitis;
First approved medical food by MOH in Japan. (Germinated Barley Foodstuff)

April 2000 – March 2016 : Functional food Division, R&D Division, Internal Audit Division of Kirin Holdings, (Tokyo)
Interfood Shareholding Company (Ho Chi Minh City)

April 2016 – June 2019 Deputy General Manager of Institute / Research Fellow (Yokohama)

June 2019 – Sep 2021 Research collaboration with National Institute of Nutrition (Hanoi)

Dec 2021 – Present Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur) Visiting Professor
(Research for LC-Plasma on infectious disease)

Dr. Hiroshi Ohno is a Deputy Director and a Team Leader of the Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences. He is also a Professor at the Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, and at the Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University. Dr. Ohno graduated from School of Medicine, Chiba University in 1983, and Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University in 1991 to obtain PhD degree. He is an immunologist studying intestinal immunology, especially the function and differentiation of M cells, a unique intestinal epithelial cell subset specialized for uptake of luminal bacteria to initiate intestinal immune responses toward them. He is also studying the host-gut microbiota interaction to understand the impact of gut microbiota on the host physiology and pathology. Dr. Ohno co-authored more than 200 original articles in English, including highly sited papers published in Nature and other high profile journals.

Dr. Tsuchiya has worked in various aspects of the urban development of Tokyo for 43 years and has extensive experience in urban planning and engineering, including roads, bridges, river embankments, coastal protection, land readjustment and redevelopment, drainage and sewerage, park planning and disaster prevention. Dr. Tsuchiya also has ample experience in engineering and river restoration projects in Japan and Asia.
Regarding disaster prevention, Dr. Tsuchiya helped to organize a summit meeting for “Cities at 0m above sea level” in 2008, which help to formulate disaster prevention strategies to protect cities below the average sea level around the world. As a consequence of this initiative, disaster prevention strategies have been widely implemented in many of the cities that participated.
Currently, Dr. Tsuchiya is technical specialist for the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction project, providing valuable information for the reconstruction of Onagawa City, Miyagi Prefecture. Dr. Tsuchiya has also worked with the Japanese International Cooperation Organization (JICA) to provide technical support for Thai city planning and rezoning. Currently he is also providing technical assistance to help to prevent the ongoing ground subsidence in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

Born in Montreal, Canada. Grew up on the Canadian prairies and Sweden. First came to Japan in 1982 and then again in 1988 as a student at Kumamoto University. Graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1991. After completing a year on a Stanford University scholarship at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies, began her career at Shimizukobundo academic publishing company as a writer of ethnology and rural community issues. Publishing 13 books in Japanese, from 1998 became director of an ongoing environmental book series. From 1994 she was named a member of the Japanese national committee for promoting environmentally sound agriculture and since then has worked on several government committees with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of the Environment and the Prime Minister’s Office. In 1997, she joined Miyagi University and worked at the university’s International Center until 2008. From 1999 to 2007, she was a visiting researcher and Japanese Ministry of Environment government review team member for the IPCC 3rd and 4th Assessment reports. In the spring of 2008, she moved to Kanazawa/Ishikawa to become the founding director of the United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa. With a mandate to link research to policy development and implementation, worked closely with researchers involved in ecosystem assessments, local and national policy makers and UN conventions related to the environment. Working with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on marine related issues, at COP10 Nagoya 2010 co-established the Sustainable Ocean Initiative, an interface between science and policy to strengthen the marine biodiversity elements of the convention. She joined the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies in 2009 as a part time lecturer on Environmental History, taking up a full-time position lecturing on global environmental policy from September 2011.

Dr. Goi is a professor from the Faculty of Management in NUCB Business School. He received a Master of Business Administration in Waseda University and a Doctorate in Media and Governance in Keio University. His research and teaching fields include Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. Dr Goi has published in several top journals, such as Sustainability Journal and The Learning Organization. In terms of education, Dr Goi has accumulated rich experience in curriculum design and teaching of design thinking and sustainability subjects. Dr Goi is also a practitioner in regional collaboration with local towns in Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi and Gifu prefectures in Japan. His past academic-industrial partnership includes corporate partners, such as Toyota Corporation, Ricoh Corporation and Tokyu Land Corporation, as well as small and medium enterprises and non-profit organizations.

Phung Quoc Huy holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (Vietnam), a Master of Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyushu University (Japan).
He started working as a researcher at the Institute of Mining Science and Technology (Vietnam) from 1999 to 2019. He has participated in various research projects on methane gas emissions, mine ventilation, coal mine gas explosion, spontaneous combustion in coal mines, risk management and assessment, mine safety, greenhouse gas emission, carbon sequestration, and energy policies.
In 2020, as a researcher at the Faculty of Engineering (Kyushu University), he conducted a research project on measuring CO2 flux from the soil surface to develop a threshold line for alerting carbon leakage possibility from geological storage sites.
Currently, he is a senior researcher at the Asia Pacific Energy Research Center (APERC). He is interested in the coal market, clean coal technology, fossil fuel energy, energy policies, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), carbon emission monitoring, critical materials, renewable energy certificates, and low-carbon emissions technologies.

Nguyen Linh Dan is a lecturer at the Department of Industrial Economics, formerly Energy Economics, under Hanoi University of Sience and Technology (HUST). Before joining HUST in late 2020, she spent four years at the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC), a research institution for APEC Energy Working Group based in Tokyo. She was part of the renewable energy team, involved in energy demand and supply projection, bioenergy and low-carbon policy researches. She was also the project coordinator for the Low Carbon Model Town of the APEC region and a representative of APERC at the APEC Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy (EGNRET). In 2008, she served as a project appraisal specialist at the Viet Nam Environmental Protection Fund for a year.
Dan graduated with an excellent Bachelor degree from the National Economics University, majoring in environmental economics and management. She received a Master’s degree and then a PhD in Sustainability Science from The University of Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include cost-benefit analysis, energy planning, energy policy and sustainable development management.
Born in Ha Noi, Dan is a native speaker of Vietnamese, fluent in English and using Japanese independently. For 11 years of living in Japan, she considers the country as her second hometown.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Thi Kim Oanh was graduated MSc. and PhD. in Environmental science in Wageningen University, the Netherlands. With over 25 years experiences, Oanh has carried out many in-depth and applied research, focusing on sustainable development, environmental risk assessment, seeking solutions for waste management, reuse, recycling and treatment. 
Some international projects can be mentioned here that describe her research goal, such as: “Strengthening capacity and institutional reform for green growth and sustainable development in Vietnam” (USAID, UNDP, 2018 – 2019); “Circular Economy for industries of Textile, Wooden, Metals” (IKEA, UNDP, 2019-2020); “Development of climate adaptation vision, goals, target and actions” and “Development of climate action planning programs” (C40 Cities, Sweco, 2020- 2021); “Nanoassisted bioremediation of diffused dioxins in soil and sediment” (USAID, AIT, 2021- 2024); MSW recycling (WWF, 2021-2022) …Recently years, she forces on climate change adaptation and mitigation, circular economy, industrial symbiotic and developing a green industrial zone model.

I’m a Lecturer/Researcher in the Faculty of Environment, VNUHCM-University of Science, Vietnam.
My research interests including:
– Fate and transport of the pollutants in the environment, and analytical chemistry
– Mercury (Hg) biogeochemical cycling
– Air pollution, modelling and long-range transport of air pollutants
– Apply AI/advanced mathematical methods to the environment.
In the past 7 years, I have worked extensively in the biogeochemical cycling of heavy metals in the atmosphere, and atmospheric transport of air pollution using model and observation data, particularly in the atmospheric mercury (Hg) and its relation to climate changes. I have published more than 20 prestigious international papers (Q1-2) of which more than 70% of my works are related to fate and transport atmospheric Hg. In recent years, my research has focused on understanding the characterizations, sources, transport and deposition of Hg and trace elements in Vietnam.

Pham Viet Dung received his Ph. D degree in agriculture from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University in Japan. He has over 5 years of working experience in researching reusing resources from sewerage system, such as treated municipal wastewater and sewage sludge, in agricultural production. From 2021, he started working as a Project Assistant Professor in a collaborative project of Sewerage System Innovation Laboratory between Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Bureau of Sewerage, Meidensha Corporation and Tokyo Metropolitan Sewerage Service Corporation. The project aims to research and develop new systems to effectively and safely reuse potential resources in sewerage system (nutrients, energy, etc.) for agricultural and aquacultural production to serve the sustainable development of local community.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. To Thi Hien is currently Head of Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Environment, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) and a member of IGAC-MANGO (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Monsoon Asia and Oceania Networking Group). Hien obtained her PhD in Environmental Chemistry from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan in 2007. She has 18 years working experiences on research and education on Environmental Chemistry and a leader of the research group “Air, water pollution – Public health – Climate Change” of VNUHCM. Her research interests focus on sources, fate and behavior of contaminants in environment as well as its effects on human health. She has published 45 international and 40 national peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has conducted, as PI or co-PI, over 20 international and national research projects. With her supervision, there are 41 master graduated who are working around the country. Her research works have played an important role in research and education at her university.

Tran Thi Y Nhi is a principal investigator in Lab of Natural Polymer at the Institute of Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. She has published more than 60 articles. She got her bachelor degree in Environmental Science at Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University in 2000. She completed her master degree of Environmental Science at Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University in 2003. In 2011, she received her PhD in Organic Chemistry at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
Her research interests include:
– Modification, extraction and chemical structure elucidation of natural polysaccharides (chitin/chitosan, glucomannan, pectin…);
– Synthesis of nanometer-size materials based on natural polysaccharides for application in medicine, environment, agriculture and food…

Born in Quang Tri Province and educated at Hue college of Education, Vietnam. Then she took her doctorate at Graz University of Technology, Austria. She was interested in the electron transfer reaction in ionic liquids. In 2015, she moved to Nha Trang University, where she has carried out research on natural extract from Vietnamese herbs. She is also running a natural cosmetic brand named “T&Y” to produce natural personal care products. She is always care about not using microplastics and liquid polymer in the products. Besides, T&Y recycle plastic bottles and use biodegradable materials in packaging. Corporate profit of T&Y is used to provide a non-profit project “Seeds of Hopes” in education children about protecting our environment. Every Sunday, students and their parents pick up plastic trash in Nha Trang beach to encourage people to raise people’ awareness and knowledge about plastic problem.

Le Duc Anh is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo. He is also a researcher for PRESTO program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His PhD thesis is on the properties and device applications of Fe-based ferromagnetic semiconductors. During this time, he was awarded a Research Fellowship for Young Scientist from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has won several awards including a Nippon Broadcasting System Prize at the 29st Technology Grand Awards for Originality. He is currently working on crystal growth and physics of various magnetic materials, superconductor/ferromagnetic semiconductor hybrid structures, and topological materials, aiming for their device applications in spintronics and quantum computing.

D.T. Huong Giang received her PhD degree in Physics from the Rouen University, France in 2005. In 2006, she joined the Faculty of Engineering Physics and Nanotechnology at VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU-UET), and became an Associate professor in 2012. She is currently Director of VNU-Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Technology and Vice-Dean of Faculty of Engineering Physics and Nanotechnology, VNU-UET. Her research interests include:
– Magnetoresistance, magnetoimpedant and magnetoelectric materials;
– Magnetic sensor applications based on magnetoresistance, magnetoimpedant and magnetoelectric effects;
– Integrated lab-on-chip biosensing systems based on magnetic microsensors sensors integrating with microfluidics for biological, health monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics applications;
– Micromagnetic simulation using OOMMF, Phase-field simulations and Electromagnetic field simulation using Ansys Maxwell.

Le Minh Thang obtained her engineering diploma from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 1997, her Msc degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 1999, her PhD degree from Gent University in 2005. She became an assistant lecturer at the Department of Organic and Petrochemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 1997 and a lecturer in 2005. Her research interest is selective oxidation of light hydrocarbons, complete oxidation of hydrocarbons, VOCs, CO, selective catalytic reduction of NOx, hydroformylation on supported ionic liquid, photocatalysis. She published about 40 papers. She is a committee member of Vietnam association of catalysis and adsorption, committee member of Asia Pacific Association of catalysis. She is in the Editorial board of catalysis communication.

Yusuke Matsui is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in EECS from the University of Tokyo in 2016. His research interests lie in computer vision and multimedia processing, with a particular interest in large-scale indexing.

Assoc. Prof. Tung Lam Nguyen received the B.S degree in Control and Automation Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2005, the M.S degree from Asian Institute of Technology, 2007, and the Ph.D from The University of Western Australia, 2014. He is currently working as a lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. His research interests include motion control, control system, and dynamics.

Phi Le Nguyen is a lecturer at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). She is also the managing director of the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (BKAI), HUST. She received her B.E. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 2007 and 2010, respectively. She got her Ph.D. in informatics from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, in 2019. Her research interests include network architecture (WSN, SND, and MEC), Machine learning (Federated learning, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning), and applied AI (environmental monitoring and healthcare).

Shinobu Ohya received a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2005. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo as a research associate in 2005 and later as an associate professor in 2010. From 2001 to 2011, he studied III-V-based ferromagnetic-semiconductor quantum heterostructures. From 2011 to 2013, he stayed at the University of California Santa Barbara as a visiting scientist, researching the growth of functional-oxide thin films using molecular beam epitaxy and superconducting quantum computing. Since returning to the University of Tokyo, he has been focusing on developing spin transistors, spin-orbit-torque-related phenomena, and spin-charge conversion in various heterostructures using ferromagnetic semiconductors, topological crystalline insulators, and perovskite oxides.

Osamu Shimizu (M’19) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Faculty of Environment and worked as an associate at Toyota Motor Corporation, Sim-Drive Co., Ltd., Honda R & D Co., Ltd.in 2009-2017. He received the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Media and Governance from Keio University in Japan. He joined as assistant professor at Nagoya University in 2017. From 2018. He joined Graduate School of Frontier Science at University of Tokyo as a project assistant professor and became a project lecturer from year 2021. His interests are in design and control of electric vehicle driving system and WPT system. He is a member of IEEE, IEE and the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan.

Prof. Kazuhiro Takanabe is Professor in the Department of Chemical System Engineering at The University of Tokyo. He previously worked at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2010 to 2018. Before he joined KAUST, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Systems Engineering at the University of Tokyo (2008-2010). Upon receipt of his doctoral degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley from 2006-2008. During his doctoral study, Prof. Takanabe studied at the University of Twente in the Netherlands as an exchange student (2002-2004). He is currently Editor of the Journal of Catalysis since September 2017.

Dr. Fuminao Kishimoto is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical System Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He received a PhD degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Yuji Wada. During 2018–2020, he worked at the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow (SPD) in the group of Professor Tatsuya Okubo and Professor Toru Wakihara. He was selected as Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER) by MEXT and Excellent Young Researcher by The University of Tokyo before moving to his current position in 2021.

Pham Thanh Huyen is the senior lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering – Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). She has been at HUST since 1991 when she was an undergraduate student. She got her Engineer (1996), MSc (1998), PhD (2003) in chemical engineering at HUST, and was promoted to the Associate Professor in 2009. Her research is on the synthesis and characterization of microporous and mesoporous materials such as SAPO-34, zeolite, SBA-15, MOF, perovskite… and their application in heterogeneous catalysis for petrochemical processes and photocatalysis.

Nguyen Phuc Duong received his PhD degree in Physics from Amsterdam University, The Netherlands in 2001. In 2002, he did his Postdoc in Max-Born Institute, Berlin, Germany. In 2004, he joined the International Training Institute for Materials Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam and became an Associate professor in 2009 and a full Professor in 2020. He is currently Director of International Training Institute for Materials Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
His research interests include:
– Fundamental aspects of Intermetallic compounds, oxide and alloy nanoparticles
– Thin films for Spintronics
– Materials for IR sensing
– Magnetostrictive Materials for Energy conversion
– Environmental Magnetism