Luan is a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, specialising in biometrics and artificial intelligence. In 2016, he graduated with first class honours degree in Computer Science at University of Science, VNU-HCM. Luan had outstanding academic results, receiving multiple awards at several academic international conferences such as the Top 10% Paper Award, Best Poster Award, and Best Presentation Award.

Furthermore, Luan also had opportunities to participate in research internships at multiple universities/institutes around the world during his undergraduate years such as the Université de Montréal, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the Tohoku University and the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received the “Golden Globe Award” for Outstanding Youths in ICT and the “Honda Y-E-S Award” for Young Engineers and Scientist in Vietnam. Luan wants to incorporate his academic research into real life applications to improve the lives of people.

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