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Research Events : Distinguished Lectures

VinUniversity is pleased to present a series of talks by well-known researchers and academics from leading universities. These senior faculty have had significant influence in the advancement of their discipline, and their vision and achievements in research, teaching and their engagement with industry have been deeply influential in setting the research agenda in their fields.
The (Un)known-(Un)knowns of COVID-19 Transmission – An Engineer’s Perspective
September 15, 2021

The (Un)known-(Un)knowns of COVID-19 Transmission – An Engineer’s Perspective

Speaker: Rajat Mittal, Ph.D. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Member of the VinUniversity Academic Advisory Board. Wednesday, Sept 15, 2021, 8 pm Hanoi time Abstract: COVID-19 spread across the world with a speed and intensity that laid bare the limits in our understanding of the transmission pathways of such respiratory diseases. After much […]

Riding Data Waves: From Ripples to Tsunamis
April 14, 2021

Riding Data Waves: From Ripples to Tsunamis

April 14, 2021, 5:00 – 6:00PM Abstract The 2010s were arguably been the decade of data, with “big data“ becoming bigger, data-driven decision making becoming a corporate imperative, data analytics becoming the hot new degree, data being called a natural resource, and data scientist being awarded the dubious title of “sexiest job of the 21st […]

The Critical Role of Biomedical Research in Driving Innovations that Improve Health Outcomes
January 27, 2021

The Critical Role of Biomedical Research in Driving Innovations that Improve Health Outcomes

January 27, 2021, 5:00 – 6:00PM Speaker: Glen Gaulton Vice Dean and Director of Global Health Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Director, Center for Global Health University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Member, Academic Advisory Board, VinUniversity See the detailed biography here. The Critical Role of Biomedical Research in Driving Innovations that Improve Health […]

Autonomous, Self-Driving Cars 
November 25, 2020

Autonomous, Self-Driving Cars 

November 25, 2020 Prof. Mark Campbell John A. Mellowes ’60 Professor in Mechanical Engineering Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering See the detailed biography at Cornell Engineering faculty’s page      Autonomous, self-driving cars have the potential to impact society in many ways, including taxi/bus service; shipping and delivery; and commuting to/from work. This talk will […]

Changes in Most Essential Lifeline: The Food Supply Chain
November 09, 2020

Changes in Most Essential Lifeline: The Food Supply Chain

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted, many times over, the complex and vital role that the food supply chain plays in meeting the basic needs of consumers around the world.  Changes in consumer buying patterns, food production, distribution bottlenecks and new governmental restrictions have added immeasurably to the challenges of bringing food to households.  This seminar […]

Actual Causality: A Survey
January 15, 2021

Actual Causality: A Survey

VinUniversity and CECS are pleased to announce a lecture series by Professsor Joseph Halpern from Cornell University who is an expert on the logic behind the math of everyday events. This 3-part lecture series includes some fascinating insights on game theory, the uncertainty that rules our daily life and to which extent common knowledge affects […]

Using Multi-Agent Systems to Represent Uncertainty
December 18, 2020

Using Multi-Agent Systems to Represent Uncertainty

VinUniversity and CECS are pleased to announce a lecture series by Professsor Joseph Halpern from Cornell University who is an expert on the logic behind the math of everyday events. This 3-part lecture series includes some fascinating insights on game theory, the uncertainty that rules our daily life and to which extent common knowledge affects […]

Knowledge and common knowledge in multi-agent systems
December 12, 2020

Knowledge and common knowledge in multi-agent systems

Speaker: Joseph Halpern Professor of Computer Science Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering Cornell College of Engineering Professor of Mathematics Cornell College of Arts and Science See the detailed biography at Cornell Business faculty’s page. VinUniversity and CECS are pleased to announce a lecture series by Professsor Joseph Halpern from Cornell University who is an expert […]

Integrating Teaching, Research, and Industry Relations for Synergy and Relevance
December 16, 2020

Integrating Teaching, Research, and Industry Relations for Synergy and Relevance

The aim of this talk is to develop the ideas that teaching, research and industry relations are complementary.  By industry relations, I mean interacting with industry, selecting research problems of interest to industry, and writing for the industry audience. I will use two personal examples of the linkage between the three areas. The first example, […]