Thach N. Dinh

Biography

Thach Ngoc Dinh received the M.Sc.Res. degree in Automatic Control (with honors) and the Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Master’s degree) in Electrical Engineering from INSA Lyon, France, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from Paris-Saclay University, France, in 2014. His doctoral work was funded by Inria and conducted at the CAOR Laboratory of Mines Paris–PSL and the L2S Laboratory (UMR 8506) of CentraleSupélec. From 2015 to 2016, he was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He subsequently held a temporary Assistant Professor position at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, France, from 2016 to 2017. Since September 2017, he has been a tenured Associate Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), France. He was appointed Adjunct Professor at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam, for the period 2025–2027 under the excellence program VNU350. He has also held visiting positions at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan, February–March 2019), the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Germany, February–May 2025), the Harbin Institute of Technology (China, June–July 2025), and the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Vietnam, June–July 2026). His research interests include observer design, set-theoretic methods, delay and sampling systems, and optimization-based design. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, as an Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics, and as an Editorial Board Member or Guest Editor for several other scholarly journals. He is also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems.