Vu C. Dinh

My full name in Vietnamese is Dinh Cao Duy Thien Vu. I'm a 4th year PhD student in Mathematics at Purdue University, Indiana. My advisor is Professor Gregery T. Buzzard, and I expect to graduate in August 2014.

My current research focuses on computational methods in applied mathematics and their applications in modelling of biological systems, as well as developing algorithms to better understand physiological processes. I have been working with my advisor and Professor Ann Rundell (Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University) on experimental design and control of cellular processes, in an ongoing project in immune system signalling. We are interested in both theoretical and computational approaches to these questions.

Recently, along with Lam Si Tung Ho (Deparment of Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison), Nguyen Viet Cuong (Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore), and Binh Thanh Nguyen (Department of Computer Science, University of Science, VNU), I started a research group on theoretical machine learning. It has been fun so far.

• 2009-Present:
  Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics
  Department of Mathematics
  Purdue Univeristy, IN, USA
• 2008-2009:
  M.S. in Analysis and Applied Mathematics
  Le Laboratoire de Mathematiques - Analyse, Probabilites, Modelisation
  Universite d'Orleans, Orleans, France
• 2004-2008:
  B.S. in Mathematics
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

• Mathematical biology: Computational modelling of biological systems, experimental design and control of cellular processes, systems identification.

• Applied math: Uncertainty quantification, multiscale modelling.

• Theoretical Machine Learning

• Vu Dinh, Ann E. Rundell and Gregery T. Buzzard (2013). Experimental design for dynamic identification of cellular processes, (submitted).

• Vu Dinh, Ann E. Rundell and Gregery T. Buzzard (2013). Convergence of the Griddy Gibbs sampling method, (submitted).

• Vu Dinh, Ann E. Rundell and Gregery T. Buzzard (2013). An adaptive quadrature method for behavior discrimination in enzymatic networks, (in preparation).

• Ankush Chakrabarty, Vu Dinh, Gregery T. Buzzard, Stanislaw H. Zak and Ann E. Rundell (2013). Robust Explicit Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Integral Sliding Mode , (submitted).

• Nguyen Viet Cuong, Vu Dinh, and Lam Si Tung Ho (2012). Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Eye Movement Identification, ICTAI 2012 : IEEE 24th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

• Jeffrey P. Perley, Judith Mikolajczak, Vu Dinh, Marietta L. Harrison, Gregery T. Buzzard, and Ann E. Rundell (2012). Systematically Manipulating T-Cell Signaling Dynamics via Multiple Model Informed Open-Loop Controller Design, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

• Duong Minh Duc, Ho Si Tung Lam, Nguyen Quang Thang, and Dinh Cao Duy Thien Vu (2011). On Harnack's inequality for non-uniformly p-Laplacian equations. Acta Mathematica Vietnamica. 36(2):199-214.

• Robust Explicit Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Integral Sliding Mode, 5th annual Computational Science and Engineering Student Conference (CSESC 2013), Purdue Univeristy, April 2013.

• Experimental Design for Dynamics Identification of Biological Systems , Midwest Numerical Analysis Days 2012, University of Notre Dame, May 2012.

• Dynamics Identification of ODE Systems, 4th annual Computational Science and Engineering Student Conference (CSESC 2012), Purdue Univeristy, April 2012.

• Mathematical Models of the T-cell Signalling Pathway, Student Colloquium, Purdue University, November 2011.