Minh N. Do (born 1974) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Unive ...

in Urbana, Illinois. He also holds positions at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) an ...

, the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, and the Department of Bioengineering.

Education and career

Do was born in

Thanh Hóa Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh ...

, Vietnam. In the 1990s, he immigrated to Australia and attended the

University of Canberra The University of Canberra (UC) is a public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is within walking distance of Westfield Belconnen, and from Canberra's Civic Centre. UC ...

there, graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering in 1997. He then flew to Switzerland, where in 2001, he got his Doctor of Science degree in Communication Systems from the

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern Franc ...

Recognitions

In 1991, Do was a silver medallist of the

International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except ...

and in 1997 he was awarded a University Medal from the

. He was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

(IEEE) in 2014 for contributions to image representation and computational imaging.

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* 1974 births Living people Vietnamese engineers University of Canberra alumni École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE International Mathematical Olympiad participants People from Thanh Hóa province 21st-century American engineers Place of birth missing (living people) {{Engineer-stub