Grants & Achievements

· A 3-year research grant from JSPS, Japan (2022-2024)

· Five 1-year research grants from ETRI, Korea (since 2011)

· Over ten grants from the university, prefecture and JSPS (as PI & co-PI, since 2011)

· Over 20 published International patents (with uses in industry)

· Best paper award, ICCE12, Hue, Vietnam.

· Chairman's Award presented by the minister of Korea MIC (highest award in grad. ceremony, Feb 2006)

· Scholarship for graduate study from DongAh Elecomm (2000-2002)

· First place in the entrance exam of HUST graduate school (1997)

· Government scholarship for excellent students of HUST (yearly 1992~1997)

· Second places in the entrance exams of HUST and HUCE, two best engineering universities in Vietnam (1992)

· Several awards in provincial competitions in maths, physics, chemics (high-school, 1992)

Awards of my group

· Outstanding Paper Award to Huyen Tran, The NEC C&C Foundation (only three recipients each year, 2020)

· "Third place of best student papers" to Duc Nguyen (in annual IEEE Conf. on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, 2015).

· "ICCE Young Scientist Paper Award" to Duc Nguyen (by Japan chapter of the IEEE CE society, 2015).

· President Award to Huyen Tran (by University of Aizu’s president, 2017).

Professional Activities

· Senior member of IEEE and Member of IEICE

· Editorial board member of Korea Multimedia Society

· Member of Japanese delegation in Standards meetings of ISO/IEC and ITU-T (since 2011)

· Member of Korean delegation in Standards meetings of ISO/IEC and ITU-T (2002-2011)

· Coordinator/reviewer of some standard activities of ISO/IEC

· Editor of SG16 ITU-T (2009-2012)

· Reviewer of various Journals (e.g. IEEE JSAC, IEEE CSVT, ACM TOMM, IEEE Sig.Proc., etc.)

Experiences

· 2002~now: Member of nat’l delegation (Korea, now Japan) in standards meetings of ISO/IEC/ITU-T (attended >40 meetings worldwide, specialized in MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, MPEG-M, IPTV, HTTP Streaming)

· 2006-2011: Senior Researcher at Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

· 2001-2006: Research Assistant and Postdoc in Image and Video sYstem Lab (IVY), KAIST.

· 1999-2000: Project engineer of Vietnam Datacom Company - VNPT (experienced with carrier-scale project development, e.g. IP Backbone networks, VoIP services, postal saving system, etc.)

· 1997-1999: Satellite engineer of Vietnam Telecom International - VNPT (experienced with INTELSAT Earth-stations and related services like VSAT, IMMARSAT, terrestrial microwave links, television networks, etc.)

Participated projects (2001~2011)

· 2008-2011       Development of Open-IPTV Technologies for Wired and Wireless Networks, sponsored by Korean government.

· 2007-2008       ENTHRONE (End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals), a multi-national project sponsored by European Union

· 2006-2008       Development of Advanced Transmission Technology for the Terrestrial DMB system, sponsored by Korean government

· 2005-2006       MPEG Standardization Work on Scalable Video Coding, sponsored by ETRI

· 2004                Study on Media QoS for Universal Multimedia Access Service, sponsored by ETRI

· 2004 Environment-Adaptive AV Messenger, sponsored by Digital Media Lab, MIC (Ministry of Info. & Com.)

· 2004                Study on Technology of DMB based Mobile Multimedia Applications, sponsored by ETRI.

· 2002-2005       MPEG-21 Standardization Work, sponsored by ETRI.

· 2002-2003       Ubiquitous Video, sponsored by Digital Media Lab, MIC.

· 2001-2002       Visual Media Adaptation for Active and Touchable Media, Sponsored by Digital Media Lab, MIC.

Languages

-       Vietnamese (mother tongue)

-       English (good, TOEFL score of 630 in Jan. 1999)   

-       French (was good, now recovering :-P)

-       Korean (intermediate)

Album

Here are some pictures of mine.

Some "informal" words about myself

My name in Vietnamese is Trương Công Thắng. I grew up and finished my schools in Thanh Hoa, a big province in the north of Vietnam. In 1992, for higher studying I moved to Hanoi, where I learned to handle myself difficulties in work and life (e.g. how to hide trembles when standing before girls). In late 2000, I came to Korea as a short adventure, but it turned out a long trip with many lessons. Now being a fresh PhD, I like pulling insights out of life&research. After all, though I may be "quiet" sometimes, believe me, a very important goal in my life is the friendship:-). 

Hobbies

· My favorite hobby is reading, with various topics. I also like playing/watching sports.

· I am an "old" moderator of the VietICU forum, an "arguing place" for Vietnamese students in Korea and abroad.

· Occasionally, I do some writings (sic!) about the goods and the bads encountered. Here in this link are some stories about places I visited (but all written in Vietnamese!)