Professor Dang Luong Mo passed away

Prof. Dr. Dang Luong Mo talks about mobilizing overseas intellectual resources at the 2024 Intellectual Meeting Conference - Photo: TTD

Prof. Dr. Dang Luong Mo is a pioneer in developing the microchip technology industry in Vietnam. He is one of 60 outstanding individuals in the construction, protection and development of Ho Chi Minh City in the period 1975 - 2025 recently honored by Ho Chi Minh City.

Information from the family representative of Professor Dang Luong Mo said that he had just passed away at 1:40 pm on May 6, at the age of 89. He had been seriously ill for several months and had to be treated at Hospital 175 (HCMC).

Mr. Dang Luong Mo was born in 1936 in Kien An, Hai Phong. After graduating from high school, he and his family migrated to Saigon. He was the valedictorian of the entrance exam to the School of Technology Engineering (the predecessor of the mechanical engineering department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology).

At the age of 21, he won a scholarship from the Japanese Government to study electronics in the land of cherry blossoms.

In 1962, Dang Luong Mo graduated from Tokyo University and two years later he completed his master's program. In 1968, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis in science, becoming a research specialist at Toshiba Central Research Institute, Japan for four years (1968 - 1971). He then returned to Vietnam to teach at Saigon University of Science (now Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences).

During this time, he also taught at the National Institute of Technology (now Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology) as the director of the School of Electricity. In 1973, he was promoted to the position of director of the National Institute of Technology.

In 1976, he returned to Japan to continue his work as a senior researcher at Toshiba Central Research Institute, Japan. In 1983, he was invited to teach at Hosei University, as head professor of the newly opened Department of Electronic Informatics.

He was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is also a senior member of the IEEE Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA.

In 2002, he returned to Vietnam to teach and guide graduate research at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; member of the scientific council of the Nanotechnology Laboratory; advisor to the director of Ho Chi Minh City National University; member of the scientific council of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park.

Professor Dang Luong Mo has more than 300 research works and more than 10 inventions and patents. Many of his research works have been published or cited in research books published in the US, especially textbooks used at American universities.

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