• 2002 PhD. received
• 1999-today: scientific researcher at II SAS
• 1996-1999: PhD. student at II SAS
• 1996 MSc. received with Dean's award
• 1991-1996: student at STU

Experiences

• Principal researcher/programmer at Department of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
• Building PC clusters for Institute of Informatics and several other organizations.
• Writing a parallel programming environment for PC clusters.
  Writing parallel 3D ground water modeling program (finite differences)
  Writing 2D surface water modeling program (finite differences)
• Parallelizing 2D surface-water modeling program FESWMS Flo2DH (finite elements)
  Parallelizing molecule modeling program QMC (Monte-Carlo).

Skills

• Programming languages and libraries: C, C++, Java, Fortran (F77/F90/HPF), PVM, MPI, OpenMP, CORBA, BLAS/LAPACK, Plapack, Scalapack, PETSC, Aztec.
• Parallelizing existing sequential applications: reusing existing codes of sequential versions, reducing time for development, guaranteeing compatibility.
• Modeling and simulation: partial differential equations, finite elements, finite differences, parallel numerical solutions for large sparse matrices.
• Optimizing performance of parallel applications: performance analysis and visualization, scheduling, load balancing, fault-tolerance.

Languages

• English: active use in professional life (communication with international partners, PhD. work, publications), Cambridge FCE, university study ...
• Slovak: study, live and work in Slovakia more than 18 years
• Vietnamese: mother tongue

Awards

• Awards for Outstanding Young Scientist at the Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
• Dean's Award for undergraduate excellent achievement at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Sloval University of Technology, 1996.
• Third Prize of Vietnamese Nationwide Championship in Physics, 1988.
• First Prize of Vietnamese Nationwide Championship in Mathematics, 1986.

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