From statistics and artificial intelligence to public health, reproductive medicine , law, and classical Chinese studies, many Vietnamese scientists have not only been honored by prestigious international organizations but have also contributed to shaping professional standards at the regional and global levels.
Professor Ho Pham Minh Nhat: The first Vietnamese person to receive the COPSS Emerging Leader Award.
Professor Ho Pham Minh Nhat (born 1989), a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), was awarded the COPSS Emerging Leader Award 2026 - an award from the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
According to COPSS regulations, a maximum of eight global scientists are honored each year within the 10-year postdoctoral period. This is the first time a Vietnamese scientist has received the award since its establishment.
Professor Ho Pham Minh Nhat.
The council highly values his pioneering contributions to building the statistical foundation for modern AI, particularly in his research on Mixture-of-Experts modeling, Optimal Transport, and Efficient Parameter Fine-Tweak Theory (PEFT) for foundational models. He completed his PhD at the University of Michigan, his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently works at the Machine Learning Laboratory and the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning at the University of Texas at Austin.
To date, Professor Nhat has published over 110 papers in leading conferences and journals such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, JMLR, and Annals of Statistics; his h-index is 35 with over 4,000 citations. He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and maintains strong academic connections with the domestic research community.
Professor Tran Xuan Bach: Global Healthcare Innovation Leadership Award
On February 23, 2025, at the annual conference of the Global Health Universities Association held in Atlanta, USA, Professor Tran Xuan Bach, lecturer at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi , was awarded the Global Health Innovation Leadership Award 2025.
The award recognizes contributions to health economics research, healthcare systems, and the application of digital technology and artificial intelligence to expand access to healthcare for vulnerable groups.
Professor Tran Xuan Bach.
Previously, in 2023, he received the ISPOR Excellence in Research Award – the world's largest organization for health economics evaluation. In December 2020, he was awarded the Noam Chomsky Global Connection Award by the STAR Association (USA). He was awarded the University of Alberta's Early Career Award (2017), elected to the Executive Board of the Global Young Academy of Sciences (2018), and in 2019 became an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2025, he was again named among the world's 10,000 most influential scientists according to a database published by Stanford University and Elsevier, ranking highly in the field of public health.
Two Vietnamese professors have been recognized as TWAS Academicians.
In January 2025, the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) – an organization under UNESCO – will recognize Professor Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai and Major General, Professor Nguyen The Hoang as new members. The awarding ceremony will take place at the 17th TWAS Conference in Brazil (September 29 - October 2, 2025).
Professor Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai and Professor Dr. Nguyen The Hoang. (Photo: VNA)
Professor Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (born 1974), Vice Director of the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, is a leading scientist in the research and development of medicines from Vietnamese medicinal plants. She was appointed Associate Professor in 2014, Professor in 2020, has over 80 international publications, and is the recipient of the 2021 Kovalevskaia Award for outstanding female scientists in the field of natural sciences.
Her research team has successfully developed products to support the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer and arthritis using domestically sourced herbs.
Major General, Professor Nguyen The Hoang, former Deputy Director of the Central Military Hospital 108, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2018. He was a member of the team that performed the world's first double hand transplant in Munich (2008) and directed the first living-donor hand transplant in Vietnam (2020). In 2012, he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), along with many other scientific awards both domestically and internationally.
Professor Do Van Dai received the Order of Academic Palms from France.
According to a decree dated December 29, 2025, by the French Prime Minister, Professor Dr. Do Van Dai, Vice Rector of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, has been awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Academic Palms – the oldest non-military order in France, dating back to 1808.
Professor Dr. Do Van Dai. (Photo: ULAW)
He graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree and successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Aix-Marseille III University (France), and was recognized as an Associate Professor in 2011 and a Professor in 2021. Since returning to Vietnam in 2007, he has held many academic management positions, contributing to promoting legal and educational cooperation between Vietnam and France, and has also produced numerous in-depth research works on civil law and comparative law.
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong has been elected as a corresponding member of the French Academy.
In 2025, the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), founded in 1663 and one of the five member institutes of the Institut de France, elected Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong as a foreign corresponding member. He is the second Vietnamese scientist to receive this honor, after the late Professor Phan Huy Le.
Left: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tuan Cuong. (Photo: French Embassy)
Born in 1980, former Director of the Institute of Han Nom Studies (2015 - 2025), he has authored over 20 books and more than 100 research papers in multiple languages. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching (Harvard University) and participated in a program of the Japan Foundation.
The projects on the Han Nom Cultural Library and Vietnamese Inscriptions that he spearheaded are considered to be of significant importance in the preservation and systematization of Vietnam's cultural heritage.
Associate Professor Vuong Thi Ngoc Lan participated in compiling the WHO Guidelines.
In 2025, Associate Professor Vuong Thi Ngoc Lan, Vice Rector of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, became the sole representative from Asia in the key author group developing the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2025 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infertility. This is the first comprehensive set of guidelines specifically for the field of assisted reproductive technology.
Associate Professor Vuong Thi Ngoc Lan.
She has over 80 international publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ, Human Reproduction, and Fertility & Sterility; she was awarded the Ta Quang Buu Prize in 2020 and was selected among the Top 100 Asian Scientists in 2021 by Asian Scientist. She was appointed Associate Professor in 2019 and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Ho Chi Minh City Medical Journal.
Le Thu (Compiled)
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