At the age of 31, Bui The Duy has become the youngest associate professor in the country. While he could be working for prestigious overseas companies, he has chosen instead to stay in Vietnam and help other young students achieve their full potential.
Bui The Duy, 31, Dean of the Information Technology Faculty at Hanoi National University, becomes the youngest associate professor so far in Vietnam.
Now serving as the Dean of the Information Technology Faculty at Hanoi National University, Duy was awarded the title of associate professor by the State Professor’s Board on November 20, 2009 (Vietnam Teachers’ Day).
He was also honored in 2009 as one of the top 10 outstanding young citizens in Hanoi and was chosen recently to join a nationwide seminar on studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s example.
While studying mathematics-informatics at the Hanoi National University in 1996, Duy won first place at the National Informatics Contest as well as two third prizes at the international Informatics Olympics Contest.
The outstanding young student then entered the faculty of Mathematics-Informatics at the Natural Science School of Hanoi National University, and was exempt from taking the entrance exam.
Here, he received a full Australian Government scholarship to complete a bachelor and master’s degree. Proving an unstoppable force of intellect and diligence, Duy finished the program, in just three years – half the usual time it takes.
Later, he obtained a full Ph.D. scholarship from the Netherlands Government and obtained his degree one year sooner than the average period of study. At the age of 26, Duy had completed his doctoral degree.
Although he received many offers to work for foreign companies after completing his studies in the Netherlands, Duy turned them all down and returned home to teach at the Hanoi National University in 2004.
The accomplished academic has now had 35 scientific articles published in domestic and international journals.
His scientific articles include the topics of human-machine interaction, and patient monitoring and tracking systems.
In addition, he has also trained Vietnamese student teams for the international ACM/ICPC Programming Contest.
Duy said that holding the rank of doctor, associate professor or professor is only intended to classify which area an individual is a specialist in, but does not mean they are better than others in different fields.
The young researcher added that he obtained his degrees simply because he is passionate about learning.
