Vu C. Dinh

Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

Office: Mathematical Science Building
Room 715
150 N. University
West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Email: vdinh@math.purdue.edu

About me

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 May 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) and Nguyen Viet Cuong (Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore), I started a research group on theoretical machine learning. It has been fun so far.

Education

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

Research Interests

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

Publications

Vu Dinh, Ann Rundell and Gregery T. Buzzard (2012). Experimental design for dynamic identification of cellular processes.(submitted)

Vu Dinh, Ann Rundell and Gregery T. Buzzard (2012). On the convergence of the Griddy Gibbs sampling method, in preparation.

Nguyen Viet Cuong, Vu Dinh, and Lam Si Tung Ho (2012). Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Eye Movement Identification, to appear on 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, to appear on 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.

Talks

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.

Other

My main hobbies are reading and writing. My favorite author is Haruki Murakami, and my favorite book is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
I try to write whenever I have free time, and used to keep a blog of my writing in Vietnamese.

I traced my mathematical lineage back into the middle ages at the Mathematics Genealogy Project. It turns out that actually I'm from a noble family that plays prominent role in the history of mathematics, with Gauss, Euler and Fourier, among others.