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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• September 2008
  Co-editor, Kho chữ Hán-Nôm mã hoá [Unified Hán-Nôm coded repertoire], with Prof. Nguyễn Quang Hồng & Dr. Ngô Trung Việt, The Institute of Hán-Nôm Research (Hanoi) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation. Social Sciences Publishing House. 27cm x 19cm, pp. 648.

• September 1, 2008 — September 1, 2010
  Leading researcher for the British Library Endangered Archives Program for digitization of endangered Hán Nôm archive of the Vietnam Institute of Social Science Information (formerly, Hán Nôm archive of the École Française d'Extrême Orient) and the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society of Temple University.

• April 11-12, 2008
  Member of the Organizing Committee for A Nôm Studies Conference, at the 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). The Conference was supported by the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, the College of Liberal Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation.

• January 26, 2008
  National Lifetime Contribution Award for US-Vietnam people-to-people relations
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam.

• June 6, 2007–present
  Member of the Scientific Commission
  Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Quốc học [National Center for Vietnamese Studies], Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• December 2005
  Co-editor, An XML Medical Knowledge Lexicon, by David Rothwell, MD, Richard Wheeler, MD and Ngô Thanh Nhàn, 1,126 pp, © 2006.

• September 2005
  Co-editor, Nôm Na Coded Character Set, Nôm Na, the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam. 586 pp. © 2005.

• August, 2005—present
  Member of the Organizing Committee for the June 2006 Second International Nôm Conference in Huế, Vietnam.
  The Conference was jointly organized by the Thừa Thiên-Huế Offices of Science & Technology and Culture & Information, the Institute of Hán Nôm Research (Vietnam) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.

• June 2005—2009
  Member of the Coordinating & Program Committees of Research & Innovation — Vision for the Future:
  — RIVF'07 5th International Conference in Computing Sciences, March 05-09, 2007 Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam.
  — RIVF'06 4th International Conference in Computing Sciences, February 05-09, 2006 Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam.

• November 12-14, 2004
  Member of the Organizing Committee for the First International Nôm Conference at the National Library in Hanoi, Vietnam.
  Co-editor of the Conference Proceedings, Nghiên cứu chữ Nôm, September 2006 , 442 pp., Hanoi: The Social Science Publishing House. The Conference was jointly organized by the Institute of Hán Nôm Studies (Vietnam) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.

• Sept 2004
  Co-Editor of the fourth edition of Giúp đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt by Father Anthony Trần Văn Kiệm, with Dr Ngô Trung Việt and the Nôm Na Group. Sponsored by the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.

• 1984-Present
  IT Standardization Expert
  Character encoding, font and keyboard designs, sorting algorithms, etc. for Vietnamese (latin based), Nôm (ideographic) and Chàm (indic) scripts.

• 9/2003–present
  Visiting Scholar
  N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Computer Science.

• March 18, 2003
  Medal of Sciences by the Vietnam Union of Sciences and Technologies, the Linguistic Society of Vietnam.

• Jan 2004-Apr 2006
  Co-editor of Thời Đại Mới (New Era).

• 1998-2006
  Co-coordinator of Summer Seminar Series
  New York University 1998, University of Leuven (Liège, Belgium) 1999, New York University 2000, University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France) 2001, University of Maine 2002, L.M. University of Munich (Germany) 2003, New York University 2004, Đà Nẵng (Vietnam) 2005, Humboldt State University (CA) 2006.

• 2/1998-2003
  Conferee/Guest
  N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

• 2/1992-2/1998
  Computational Linguist
  Linguistic String Project - N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

  Automatic semantic pattern collection from clinical data.
  Automatic dictionary consistency and updating procedures.
  Automatic encoding into SNOMED III: programming.
  Independent automatic error checking on LSP medical language processing.
  Independent automatic error recovery using segment parsing strategy.
  

• 2/1988-1992
  Associate Research Scientist
  N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
  

  Joint Project: Automatic Encoding of Clinical Narratives of NYU Linguistic String Project and Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève, with Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique.

  Responsible for robust, automatic error checking formatting text into CTABLEs for INGRES and INFORMIX standard dBMS.

• 2/1984-1/1988
  Associate Research Scientist
  N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
  

  Responsible for natural language transportable system analysis and robust parsing using graded acceptability: English medical grammar selection, relaxation mechanisms,...

• 1983-1985
  Assistant Editor of Vietnam Culture Journal, New York.

• 1978-1984
  Assistant Research Scientist
  N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

  Responsible for parsing and updating grammar for the English Question-Answering System.

• Computer experience:
  • Hardwares: Sun Sparc, VAX 8600+, HP-UX, IBM, PC, Mac Power PC
  • Operating systems: SunOS 5+, VAX/VMS V5+, HP-UX Epicure, DOS, Windows 95, Mac-OS
  • Databases: FoxPro, Informix, MS Access, MS Excel, Lotus, dBASE, SGML free text and retrievals
  • Tools: sed, awk, perl, [Symantec] C++, Java, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Lisp, Prolog
  • Internet tools: CGI, HTML 3+, XML, specialized SGML
  • Networking: Novell NetWare 4 (IPX), AppleTalk
  • Teaching and training users.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

• 2006-present: Association for Asian Studies
• 6/2001-12/2002: The Vietnamese Unicode/ISO 10646 Committee (VUIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Member
• 2000-present: Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education [NY non-profit], Board of Directors
• 1999-4/3/2007: The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation [FL non-profit], Executive Committee
• 2000-2005: Bowne Global Solutions (formerly, Berlitz GlobalNET)
• 1998-present: National Association of Judicial Interpreters and Translators
• 1998-2006: The Brecht Forum [NY non-profit organization], Board of Directors
• 1998-present: The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at the Manhattanville College [NY], Board of Directors
• 1995-present: Association of Asian American Studies
• 1994-present: The IEEE Computer Society
• 1991-Jan 2000: The Vietnamese Heritage Institute [CA non-profit organization], Director
• 1984-present: Association for Computational Linguistics
• 1983-present: Linguistic Society of America
• 1990-1995: American Friends Service Committee, Asia Panel
• 1993-1997: ISO JTC1/SC2/WG2 Ideographic Rapporteur Group - Chief Vietnamese Overseas Liaison
• 1992-1995: Linguistic Society of Vietnam, Executive Board
• 1995-1997: Chàm Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange
• 1993-1997: Subcommittee for Nôm Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences) — Vice Chairperson
• 1993-1997: Subcommittee for Vietnamese Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences) — Vice Chairperson
• 1993-1997: Subcommittee for Vietnamese Keyboard Standardization (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences)
• 1993-1997: East Asian Subcommittee of the Unicode Technical Committee, Unicode Consortium — Chief Vietnamese Overseas Liaison
• 1993-1997: Việt Nam Information Technology —Technical Committee [Tiêu chuẩn Việt Nam] - TCVN/JTC 1 Vice Chairperson

EDUCATION

• 1984: Ph.D. in Linguistics: Morphology (New York University, New York)
• 1977: Master of Arts: Theoretical Linguistics (San José State University, California)
• 1972: Bachelor of Arts: Russian (San José State University, California)
  Minor languages: French, German
  Minor subject: Music.

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