Tho Nguyen
tho@ee.washington.edu

Education

BSE Electrical Engineering
BA Applied and Computational Mathematical Science
MS Electrical Engineering
PhD student of Electrical Engineering. University of Washington – Seattle, Washington

Honors

• Fulbright Student Grant to Vietnam (AY 2006-2007)
• GOMAP Grant
• College of Engineering Grant
• IGERT Buffalo NY GIS Summer Institute Grant (Italy)
• Research project featured in Columns UW alumni magazine, The UW Annual Report, and the Electrical Engineering annual newsletter (EEK)
• NSF IGERT Fellow
• Mary Gates Research Training Scholar
• First Generation Scholar

• Sensor development
• Energy-efficient sensor system
• Sensor network control/optimization
• System identification on environmental system
• Optimization on environmental system

The above interests tie to my dissertation in sluice gate control to optimize water conditions in the Mekong delta. My goal is to research and teach in this area of the world.

Publications and Presentations

“A Programmable Part for Self Assembly: Design and Evaluation” ICAR 2005
“Feasibility Study of DTMF Communications for Robots,” UWEETR-2004-0013

Conferences

Vespucci Summer Institute 2006, Italy

Administrative and Service

President of the Vietnamese Student Association (2000)
Chapter Chair of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2001)

Highlights

• Born and raised in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, I am interested in research and development projects that are relevant to this area.
• I am currently a member of a group studying the low dissolved-oxygen problem in the Hood Canal. I hope to combine my background in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics with this project and extend it to my planned research in Vietnam.
• I am also working with Can Tho University in Vietnam to develop a curriculum for their undergraduate program in control and automation.