A world-renowned Vietnamese professor in the field of microchips has passed away.

According to information from the family of Professor Dang Luong Mo, he passed away on the afternoon of May 6th after a period of serious illness.

Professor Dang Luong Mo is an honorary professor at Hosei University (Japan) and a senior advisor at the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. He was recently honored as one of 60 outstanding individuals in the construction, protection, and development of Ho Chi Minh City from 1975 to 2025.

Giáo sư Việt nổi tiếng thế giới về lĩnh vực vi mạch qua đời - 1 — Professor Dr. Dang Luong Mo (Photo: Hai Phong City Electronic Information Portal).

Professor Dang Luong Mo was born in 1936 in Kien An, Hai Phong. After completing high school, he and his family migrated to Ho Chi Minh City to live.

Later, he graduated at the top of his class from the School of Engineering Technology (the predecessor of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Saigon Polytechnic University).

In 1957, at the age of 21, he was selected and received a scholarship from the Japanese government to study electronics.

He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1962, earned his Master's degree two years later, and successfully defended his Doctor of Science dissertation there in 1968.

From 1968 to 1971, he was a research specialist at the Toshiba Central Research Institute in Japan. Afterward, he returned to Vietnam to teach at the Saigon University of Science (now the Faculty of Science, Vietnam National University 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 (equivalent to the head of the electrical engineering department today).

From 1973, he was the Director of the National Institute of Technology (equivalent to the position of Rector of Saigon Polytechnic University).

In 1975, he returned to Japan to continue his work as a senior research fellow at the Toshiba Central Research Institute in Japan.

From 1983 to 2002, he was invited to be a lecturer as a Professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.

In 2002, he returned to Vietnam. Immediately after his return, he participated in teaching and supervising postgraduate students at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, and served as the head of the committee to establish the Overseas Vietnamese Science and Technology Club.

In particular, he laid the foundation for the establishment of the Integrated Circuit Design Research and Training Center (ICDREC), the Integrated Circuit Design and Simulation Research Laboratory, and the Microelectronics Postgraduate Training Program under the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.

Throughout his life, Professor Dang Luong Mo has published over 300 research papers and held 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.

He has been elected to the New York Academy of Sciences since 1992 and is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers (IEEE, USA).

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