Prof. Dr. Vu Duong (in Vietnamese: Dương Nguyên Vũ) is currently Director of John

von Neumann Institute (JVN) – The Center of Excellence of Vietnam National

University Ho Chi Minh City in Applied Mathematics, Systems Science, Knowledge

Science, and Information Science. Prior to returning to Vietnam, Vu had been Head

of Innovative Research and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the multi-

governmental European Organization for the Satefy of Air Navigation

(EUROCONTROL) and had managed its innovation arm from 1999 to 2006. He

remained involved in European aviation research & innovation until 2012 as a Senior

Scientific Advisor and a Member of European Commission’s Single European Sky

Scientific Committee (SESAR). Involved in research and education in Vietnam since

1997, after more than a decade of constant travel between Europe and Vietnam, in

2010 Vu decided to fully return to Vietnam to establish and launch JVN with the

passion to implement the triangle of knowledge that merges research, education

and innovation to perform the ecosystem to help sustaining the growth of the

country. Vu holds an M.Eng (1986) and a PhD degree (1990) in Artificial Intelligence

from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees of France (Ponts-ParisTech).