Dec 2025 · 8 min · Teaching
On being a mentor
Notes from the Leadership program at HCMUS — and what it taught me about getting out of the students’ way.
— 01 · The Story
From a first
paper to
a classroom.
2017 – present
’17
Early signal-processing work in Vietnam — QRS in ECG at IEEE ICIEA, then EEG with neural networks at NAFOSTED NICS. The start of a fascination with biomedical signals.
’19
Crossing the Pacific to Texas Tech. A new chapter at the HPC center — HiperViz for live CPU-temperature visualization, plus first VR explorations of multidimensional data.
’21
A burst of visualization work: TimeRadar, JobNet, VixLSTM, HMaViz. Each one a different way to give shape to data.
’23
Third place at the IEEE SciVis 2023 contest for PlastiVis, visualizing synaptic networks — a fitting close to the Texas Tech years before the road home.
Now
Back home at VNU-HCM — teaching the next generation, leading an MRI brain-imaging grant, and building Physoom to run the faculty.
