Professor Dang Luong Mo has passed away.

Giáo sư Đặng Lương Mô qua đời - Ảnh 1. — Professor Dang Luong Mo speaks about mobilizing intellectual resources from overseas Vietnamese at the 2024 Intellectuals Meeting Conference - Photo: TTD

Professor Dang Luong Mo is a pioneer in the development of microchip technology in Vietnam. He is one of 60 outstanding individuals honored by Ho Chi Minh City for their contributions to the construction, protection, and development of the city from 1975 to 2025.

According to information from a representative of Professor Dang Luong Mo's family, he passed away at 1:40 PM on May 6th, at the age of 89. He had been seriously ill for several months and had been receiving treatment at Hospital 175 (Ho Chi Minh City).

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 to live. He was the top-scoring student in the entrance exam for the School of Engineering Technology (the predecessor of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology).

At the age of 21, he excelled and won a scholarship from the Japanese government to study electronics in Japan.

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

Around the same time, he also taught at the National Institute of Technology (now Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology) as the director of the electrical engineering school. In 1973, he was promoted to director of the National Institute of Technology.

In 1976, he returned to Japan to continue his work as a senior research fellow at the Toshiba Central Research Institute. In 1983, he was invited to teach at Hosei University as the head professor of the newly established Department of Electronics and Computer Science.

He was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers (IEEE) in the United States.

In 2002, he returned to Vietnam to teach and supervise postgraduate research at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; served as a member of the scientific council of the Nanotechnology Laboratory; advised the director of the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City; and was a member of the scientific council of the Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park.

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

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