1. HANU IT HONOR PROGRAM Nguyen Xuan Hoai, PhD nxhoai@gmail.com

2. What is Honor Program? A training program for better students who want to learn how to do research. A training program for better students who want to learn how to do research. It has research-based curriculum. It has research-based curriculum. The length for the program is 10-12 months. The length for the program is 10-12 months.

3. Why HANU IT Honor Program? An opportunity to learn how to do academic research under supervision of really good researchers. An opportunity to learn how to do academic research under supervision of really good researchers. Learn how to solve real world problems by doing research. Learn how to solve real world problems by doing research. Qualified with distinguished qualifications. Qualified with distinguished qualifications. Job opportunities at HANU, and R&D sections of IT companies. Job opportunities at HANU, and R&D sections of IT companies. Great chance for studying post graduation both within and outside the country. Great chance for studying post graduation both within and outside the country.

4. Outline of Program Classroom sit-in courses: 1 out of 5 courses at the last semester (this semester Fall 2011). Classroom sit-in courses: 1 out of 5 courses at the last semester (this semester Fall 2011). Directed study courses: Directed study courses: Research Methodologies. Research Methodologies. Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking. Academic Reading Course. Academic Reading Course. Academic Writing Course. Academic Writing Course. Seminar Course. Seminar Course. Graduation Thesis/Paper(s). (June, 2012) Graduation Thesis/Paper(s). (June, 2012)

5. Who is Eligible? Students in the final year. Students in the final year. GPA (so far) at least 7.0. GPA (so far) at least 7.0. Who show great desire and ability to do research. Who show great desire and ability to do research.

6. Selection Process Registration (this week). Registration (this week). Student-Advisor Matching. Student-Advisor Matching.

7. List of Advisors for 2011-2012 1. Asc/Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoai (PhD from University of New South Wales, Australia). Research Topics: Text Summarization and Extraction, Building Vietnamese Lexical Semantics Database. 2. Dr. Tran Quang Anh (PhD from Tshinhua University, China) Research Topics: Computer Security, From IPv4 to IPv6 internet protocol conversion, Complex Social Networks for Spam Filtering. Research Topics: Computer Security, From IPv4 to IPv6 internet protocol conversion, Complex Social Networks for Spam Filtering. 3. Dr. Le Thi Lan (PhD from INRIA, France) Research Topics: Computer Vision, Leaf characteristic extraction for plant identification, Multiple camera object tracking in perceptive environments.

8. List of Advisors for 2010-2011 4. Dr. Bui Thu Lam (PhD from University of New South Wales, Australia) Research Topics: Evolutionary Computation, Tools for Software Inspection, Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Genetic Algorithms for Data Clustering. Research Topics: Evolutionary Computation, Tools for Software Inspection, Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), Genetic Algorithms for Data Clustering. 5. Dr. Tran Van Long (PhD from University of Jacob Bremen, Germany) Research Topics: Interactive multidimensional data visualization, Hierarchy structure visualization with treemaps, Animation isosurface extraction with Marching cubes.

9. List of Advisors for 2010-2011 6. Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh (PhD from JAIST, Japan) Research Topics: Statistical Machine Translation, Proper Name Translation, Trend Forecast for Commercial Products based on Customers’ Opinion. Research Topics: Statistical Machine Translation, Proper Name Translation, Trend Forecast for Commercial Products based on Customers’ Opinion. 7. Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy (PhD from Graz University of Technology, Austria) Research Topics: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Object detection/recognition, Image understanding/scene interpretation. 8. Dr. Nguyen Nhat Quang (PhD from University of Trento, Italy) Research Topic: Recommender Systems, Mobile Computing, Information Retrieval.

10. List of Advisors for 2010-2011 9. Dr. Cao Trong Hieu (PhD from Kyuhee University, Korea) Research Topic: Wireless Adhoc Networks, Routing Problem. Research Topic: Wireless Adhoc Networks, Routing Problem. 10. Dr. Le Thanh Huong (PhD from Middlesex University, UK) Research Topic: Automated Information Extraction, Information Summarization. Research Topic: Automated Information Extraction, Information Summarization. 11. Mr. Le Minh Duc (MSc. From Imperial College, UK) Research Topic: Data Integration. Research Topic: Data Integration. 12. Dr. Nguyen Quang Uy (PhD from UCD, Ireland) Research Topic: Evolutionary Design, Computational Financial, Program Analysis.