Vuong Ba Quy

VietNamNet Bridge - Vuong Ba Quy, a student of University of Wisconsin in the USA majoring in database, has pledged to return to the motherland after finishing his PhD course in 2012.

The 24-year-old boy has decided to take a scholarship awarded by the Vietnam Education Fund (VEF) for his current study after refusing nine offers made by major universities.

Borne in a non-mathematics family in the northern port city of Hai Phong , the boy revealed his mathematic talent at the age of eight while on the seat of a local primary school. His talents gave him a way into the Talented Engineers Training Centre under the Ha Noi University of Technology in 2001 and won him a scholarship in 2003 for IT study at the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore .

He always had a place in the list of 5 percent of best students of the Nanyang University and was admitted to a special Bachelor training programme, which took him just 3.5 instead of four years as normal to finish his Bachelor study.

Quy has involved in six scientific research projects already published or to be published at symposiums or prestigious scientific magazines such as Pattern Recognition Letters or an international symposium on IT held in Portugal and a symposium on digital libraries in Hungary .

In 2006, the young talent sent his project on a system to compile, recognise and calculate mathematics patterns to the Vietnam Intellectual Competition, the most prestigious one on IT in the country, and won the first prize.

At the award ceremony, the organising board not only praised his product as the best software invention but also recognised his courage to venture into the most difficult area of IT programming.

He has not commercialized his product which is now exclusively applicable at the Nanyang University where the idea had come true.

He disclosed a plan to develop the product into a version for the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) technology.

“I will come back to Vietnam like many other friends, especially in the context that both opportunities and challenges are open to young generations today,” said the talented student.

(Source: VNA)