With the international scientific works, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung of the University of Danang always carries with him the desire to contribute to bringing Vietnamese science to the international level, on par with the great nations.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung (born in 1980, working at the University of Da Nang - Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (UD-AIST)), despite his young age, has become a reputable scientist with over 150 works published in journals, yearbooks of national and international scientific conferences in the field of optical communication. At the same time, he also has one patent protected in the United States, five more patents are under review in the United States and Vietnam and is Head of 2 national-level projects, 2 ministerial-level projects and a science and technology project sponsored by Vingroup.

He was honored to be trusted by the community of scientists, elected for 3 consecutive terms as a member of the Scientific Council of Information Science and Computer Science of the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED).

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung presents a scientific project

A young scientist with great ambition

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung was born and raised in Da Nang city. In 2003, after graduating with a major in Electronics - Telecommunications, the University of Danang - University of Science and Technology (UD-DUT), he was retained as a lecturer at UD-DUT. From 2006-2012, he received a Japanese Government scholarship to study Master and PhD at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo. From 2012-2016, he continued his postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. Hung enjoyed advanced education and intensive research work in the field of fiber optic communication.

 “I was fortunate to study and research at the world's leading laboratories for fiber optic communication in Japan, where there is a scientific background, modern technology, favorable workplace environment. I always aspire to apply the knowledge and experience gained to the development of scientific research in the field of fiber optic communication in the country - an area that Vietnam is still limited compared to the world.” Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung said.

From 2016 until now, Assoc.Prof.Dr Nguyen Tan Hung has had many typical national and ministerial-level scientific works such as: “Developing a highly reliable gigabit data transmission system that intelligently combines lasers and waves radio for areas with complex terrain and severe weather” (Nafosted applied research project); “Research on reducing nonlinear signal distortion for broadband optical communication systems using Terabit superchannels” (Nafosted basic research topic); “Design, optimization and fabrication of ultra-wideband multimode decoupled optical silicon chips for new generation optical communication system”;…

Many research works have been published in the most prestigious international journals and conferences in the field of optical communication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), such as: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (the world's largest conference in the field of optical communication, held annually in the United States), European Conference on Optical Communication (one of the most prestigious and traditional conferences in the field of optical communication, held annually in Europe). Among them, there were many works which were invited articles (Invited Paper), invited reports (Invited Talk), excellent articles (Top-scoring Paper).

According to Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, with many effective policies to promote science and technology of the Party and State, together with the increasing participation of scientists with high qualifications and international experience, Vietnam's scientific research level has been improved, gradually approaching international standards. The scientific research environment is improved, conditions and facilities for scientific research and technological development in the country are gradually interested in investment and modern upgrading, scientists working in Vietnam have the opportunity to research many in-depth projects, interact with many international experts. Therefore, the academic environment and research quality in the country are being gradually developed closer to those of countries with developed science.

Being a member of the Scientific Council of NAFOSTED from 2017 until now has brought Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung many interesting and meaningful experiences where he can contribute more to the scientific community in the country through consulting activities to identify priority research directions; selecting/ evaluating research topics and awards; organizing international conferences and activities to improve national science and technology capacity.

Project "Intelligent Optical Communication for Extremely Large Data Networks" was granted a Patent by the USPTO (USA) – the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Building an Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Always with the desire to bring Vietnamese science to the international level, after returning to Vietnam, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung was appointed as Vice Dean, in charge of the University of Danang the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (UD-AIST). The UD-AIST was established in August 2020 as a breakthrough policy of UD’s leaders with the expectation of developing into an excellent research institute in the whole country, on a par with the region through scientific research, technology development and innovation to meet international standards.

At the same time, UD-AIST is the focal point of UD to organize research activities and technology transfer, serve the community at national and international level, implement interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research projects and topics in order to solve important socio-economic issues of the locality and region.

According to Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, UD-AIST has developed 8 interdisciplinary research groups in various fields from economy, society-humanities to science and technology; with the participation of more than 150 national and international scientists inside and outside UD, including: human potential research and development group; disaster risk research and construction infrastructure safety control group; economic behavior and sustainable transport research group; environmental health research group; computational science and engineering research group; information and communication network technology research group; spectroscopy research group; smart materials research group; computational materials science group.

Through the process of operation, the research groups of UD-AIST have proposed more than 100 scientific and technological topics, schemes and projects at national, ministerial, provincial and local levels and other topics related to bilateral and multilateral international cooperation.

Assoc.Prof.Dr Nguyen Tan Hung said that the research groups of UD-AIST included many young scientists who are passionate about scientific research, enthusiastic and eager to devote, dynamic, creative, and intellectually focused to research topics that are meaningful, topical and highly applicable to society. These are very valuable qualities that research groups at UD-AIST have when the role of science and technology in socio-economic development is increasing, social pressure is increasing, with the need to put scientific research into real life.

In the coming time, UD-AIST will focus on priority research directions for the fourth industrial revolution, high-tech technologies and products serving digital government and smart cities such as information technology and communication, automation technology, intelligent transportation-sustainable construction and new materials technology. Especially focusing on groundbreaking, influential research for Da Nang city and the region, which is shown through products with the ability of high commercialization and the ability of protecting intellectual property rights in developed countries and the interest of countries around the world to learn and buy the copyright.

Currently, UD-AIST is actively participating in the construction of the "Research Laboratory of Information Technology and Broadband Communication" of the Center for Research and Experimentation, under the UD’s Urban Area Development Project in Hoa Quy-Dien Ngoc with ODA capital of US$ 100 million from the World Bank. With an investment of nearly US$ 3.5 million, this is expected to be a world-class leading laboratory in the field of super-fast data transmission, actively contributing to the development of UD into a training center and research prestige in the country and in the region.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung and the research group

of the project were granted a U.S. Patent

The first research work of UD was granted an intellectual protection patent by the U.S.

With continuous efforts in the research process, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung and his partner Dr. Le Thai Son have just completed the project of Vingroup Innovation Fund "Intelligent optical communication for extremely large data networks" which was granted a patent by the USPTO (USA) – the United States Patent and Trademark Office after more than a year of registration.

According to Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hung, this was one of two U.S. patent files registered by the project group in 2021. The main protected contents were device configurations, control systems and communication protocols for intelligent, flexible, highly integrated receiver systems with low-cost optical transmitters. With the patent granted for protection, the project group would move to the R&D stage (research and development) to develop a commercial product "smart optical transceiver" in the near future for the telecommunications industry; for a better serve broadband applications such as high-speed video/ television, cloud computing, big data, etc. of the Internet in the future.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung shared: “The world is connected through information highways built on optical fibers with a diameter as thin as a human hair. Fiber optic communication is considered the infrastructure of today's internet. However, the rapid increasing in the number of users and broadband applications has pushed the data traffic in the internet networks to a critical point and will soon become overloaded in the near future. Therefore, it is necessary to have a breakthrough solution to increase capacity on transmission networks to meet the increasing information needs of people”.
 

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hung added that the goal of the project is to design and develop an intelligent optical communication system with extremely large data transmission capacity of many terabits per second (1012 bits/s). In order to achieve this goal, the project has developed techniques to detect and correct the factors that degrade system quality, including linear and nonlinear signal distortions, thereby helping the system to improve performance exceed the nonlinear Shannon limits on information transmission capacity.

In this project, the research group has achieved excellent results compared to the original explanation such as publications in leading journals and conferences in the field of fiber optic communication, training support for 3 Fellow Ph.D. In particular, the group has experimentally established data transmission capacity of up to 1200Gb/s (equivalent to a transmission rate of 255 DVDs per second) with spectral efficiency of 5.25 bit/s/Hz using only direct wave detection technique.

With his outstanding contributions, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung was honored to receive the Certificate of Merit from the Chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee for prestigious international scientific articles in 2017 and 2020; the Award of "Excellent Science and Technology Activities" in the academic years 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2018/2019…

According to Newspaper, Vietnam News Agency