Ngô Thanh Nhàn: Research Page

Ngô Thanh Nhàn
Computational Linguist

Linguistic String Project
Courant Computer Science Department
New York University
40 West 135th Street, Suite #1S
New York, New York 10037
Tel: +1 646 660-4033
Email: nhan@cs.nyu.edu, ntn1@nyu.edu

Last edited March 22, 2012
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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.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

October 26 — December 18, 2024
Co-teach, Mixed level Đàn Tranh: Fall 2024: 8 & 16 sessions (Weds & Sats) with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, hosted by Mekong Arts & Music, hybrid.
October 5, 2024
Panelist, If you can hear the sound of my voice, clap once, moderated by Hồng Ân Trương at Island Gallery (83 Bowery, NY 10002) in conjunction with HÂT's exhibition, 5:30pm to 7:00pm.
July 28, 2024 — August 2, 2024
Co-author, Sustaining Authenticity: Spectographic Analysis of Vietnamese Lullabies acroxx Regions by Phan Gia Anh-Thư (Columbia Teachers College) and Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Liêm (Sàigòn University), The International Society for Music Education. (ISME) 36th Conference, Helsinki 2024.
February 25 — April 28, 2024
Co-teach, Mixed level Đàn Tranh: Spring 2024: 8 & 16 sessions with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, hosted by Mekong Arts & Music, hybrid.
October 27, 2023
Đàn Tranh accompaniment for poetry reading by Teline Thuỷ Tiên Trần's Ad Học, at Wendy's Subway Fall Chapbook/Zine Series, Brooklyn, New York, 7:00 – 8:30pm.
October 17, 2023 — December 17, 2023
Co-teach, Mixed level Đàn Tranh: Fall 2023: 8 & 16 sessions with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, hosted by Mekong Arts & Music, hybrid.
October 7, 2023
Đàn Tranh Performance at the Southeast Asian Water Festival, at FDR Park, Philadelphia, 2:15pm.
September 30, 2023
Đàn tranh performance at the 28th Annual Mid-Autumn Festival, organized by Asian American United, Chinatown, Philadelphia, 12-6pm, at China Friendship Gate
September 15, 2023 — June 7, 2024, Fridays
Artist, Đàn Tranh Ensemble, at Folk Arts–Cultural Treasures Charter School, Philadelphia, PA.
June 3, 2023 — July 29, 2023
Co-teach, Đàn Tranh: Summer 2023: Beginners & Intermediate levels with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, hosted by Mekong Arts & Music, hybrid.
May 25, 2023
Philadelphia, City Hall, Mayor's Conversation Hall, Back to the Roots, Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in Philadelphia!, performing with 6 FACTS Đàn Tranh Ensemble students.
May 20, 2023
14th Annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration, at Thai Cultural Center, 110 Rustic Road, Centereach, NY 11720, 16:00–20:00. Event flyer.
March 17, 2023
Co-organizer, In Celebration of the Life, Work, and Legacy of Professor Ngô Vĩnh Long, Organizing Committee Chair Douglas Allen, University of Maine, hybrid at the Harvard-Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. Program link and Zoom recording.
September 16, 2022 — June 16, 2023
Artist, Đàn Tranh Ensemble, at Folk Arts–Cultural Treasures Charter School, Philadelphia, PA.
December 3, 2022 — February 18, 2023
Co-teach, Đàn Tranh: Lòng bản with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, hosted by Mekong Arts & Music, hybrid.
December 3, 2022
Author: "Following the footsteps of Hồ Xuân Hương, the Queen of Nôm Poetry". for the National and International Heritage of Hồ Xuân Hương. Pre-published in March 15, 2022 English version and Vietnamese version. Proceeding of the International Seminar on Nữ sĩ Hồ Xuân Hương (1772-1822): Danh nhân Văn hoá và Giá trị Di sản, organized by the People's Committee of Nghệ An Province, Nghệ An Publishing House 2022, Pp. 213-225.
May 16 — August 16, 2022
Co-teach, Đàn Tranh: Techniques, Improvisation/Stories, and Folk Songs with Phan Gia Anh-Thư, organized by Mekong Arts & Music, online
December 6-7, 2021

Co-Organizer, hybrid The First International Conference on Safeguarding and Promotion of the Arts of Hát Xẩm in Contemporary Society, co-organized by the Vietnam National Institute of Culture & Arts Studies (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), and The Department of Culture & Sports of the People's Committee of Ninh Bình Province, in partnership with The Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, Temple University, The Center for Research, Preservation & Advancement of Vietnamese Folk Music, and The Faculty of Arts, Sàigòn University. Hoàng Sơn Hotel, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam.
Visit A Sketch on the Arts of Hát Xẩm for a brief overview of the folk songs of the blind traveling beggars and their music.

Abstracts (all submissions)
Pre-conference program and selected full papers (in Vietnamese): Programme
Full recordings of the Conference on YouTube:
– Hát Xẩm performance with Lists of songs, their titles and lyrics
– Session 1 and Closing Summarion (2:38:21 - 3:02:23)
– Session 2 (2:48:22)

November 16 — November 24, 2021
Virtual Instructor-led Skill Building Workshop, organized by the De la Mora Institute of Interpretation, 8 90-min session intensive training.
October 25 – December 13, 2021
Virtual Folk Songs, Rhythms & Improvisations, organized by Mekong Arts & Music, 8 week intensive beginners and Intermediate đàn Tranh couses, Mondays. Đàn Tranh classes
July 17, 2021
Voice Over for Children\'s books, 5 volumes, with Teacher Phan Gia Anh-Thư, organized by Nuanced Interpretation
June 22 – July 15, 2021
Virtual Instructor-led Judicial Council Candidate Training, organized by the National Consortium of State Courts, 8 2-hour intensive training, for Judicial Council of California.
June 18, 2021
Ph.D. Thesis Defense at Temple University for Nam Hoàng Nguyễn's thesis Solo piano music by Vietnamese composers: a performative and historical perspective, Doctor of Music Arts.
2019–present — Đàn Tranh Ensemble, Vietnamese 16-string zither course, for Folk Arts – Cultural Treasures Charter School, co-authored with Teacher Phan Gia Anh-Thư:
1. September 2020 to June 2021: Online Course with class repertoire, song stories, and students' song shares
2. September 2019 to June 2020: Online Course with tuning, repertoire, and song stories
April 4, 2021
Lờ Ru, a film by TuânMinh A. Đỗ, directed by Emily Anne Goes and TuânMinh A. Đỗ. Vimeo release, October 12, 2021
March 23, 2021, Discussant
Engaged Buddishm: Historic Relic of the 1960s of Alive and Well in Contemporary Southeast Asiae, The 2021 Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington, 3:00pm, Page 77.
January 29 – April 30, 2020
Vietnamese Language Class for Community Organizers, Mekong NYC's 12 week program.
October 14-17, 2020
An Approach to revitalization of Hát Xẩm — the blind beggar folk songs of Vietnam, the 2020 annual conference, chair and presenter at Panel 08-02 Building and Revitalizing Communities, Saturday October 17, 2020 at 10:30 am, in Recentering the Periphery, the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Hyatt Regency, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
September 9, 2020
An introduction to the Dublin Core cataloging of Vietnamese Nôm catholic resoources at the Vatican Apostolic Library, a report.
August 31, 2020
On Socialist Vietnam's Response to COVID-19: Vietnam dare to win, dare to defeat the Corona Vitus!, co-author with Merle Ratner, Co-coordinators, Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, published on Portside, August 31, 2020. Originally, the speech was delivered at the Workers World webinar: COVID can be defeated: Cuba, China, Venezuella & Vietnam lead the way, Thursday, August 20, 2020, at 8:00 - 9:30 pm EST. See posted version, August 27, 2020. Reprinted on On Socialist Vietnam’s Response to COVID-19, in Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation, in consultative States with the United Nations ECOSOC, September 1, 2020.
June 25, 2020
Visions of Community: Folk arts – Cultural Treasures Charter School, first 7'45", WHYY: PBS, Philadelphia.
October 16-19, 2019
An Initial Approach to a Description of Hát Xẩm, the Blind Beggar Folk Songs of Vietnam, the American Folklore Society 2019 annual conference, entitled Community Driven, the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland. Session 07-14 Body, Sense and Emotions, Conway, 1st floor, 8:00-10:00am, Saturday, October 19, 2019.
July 1, 2019 – February 27, 2021
Re-appointed as Vietnam TCVN liaison member of TCVN JTC 1/SC 2 and TCVN JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2, of the General Department for Standards, Metrology and Quality Control, to the ISO/IEC 10646 Joint Technical Committee 1, SubCommittee 2, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 and ISO/IED JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2, and Unicode Technical Committee, for Nôm and Chăm scripts.
June 18-19, 2019
— New UniHan additions Draft Unicode 13.0: Vietnamese alternative reading marks 个 cá and ⺀ nháy from the proposal Proposal to encode two Vietnamese alternate reading marks, WG2 L2/17-273R, with main author Lee Collins, Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation, dated November 6, 2017,
— Comments on proposed Vietnamee reading marks, WG2 L2/18-281, by Andrew West, John Knightley and Eiso Chan, dated August 30, 2018, and
— Response to L2/18-281, WG2 L2/18-318, with main author Lee Collins, date October 20, 2018.
Adopted at the ISO/IEC 10646 JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 and UTC joint meeting at Microsoft Headquarter, Redmond, WA.
April 14-18, 2019
"A binary branching theory for the ideographic 𡨸喃 chữ Nôm script, phonemic syllable structure and word formation," in Round Table Perspectives on Education in Southeast Asia, CIES 2019 Education for Sustainability: Comparative and International Education Society, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco.
November 23-24, 2018
Towards an educational music processor for folk and popular musics, with Phan Gia Anh-Thư (Columbia Teachers College), #1570489377, in Proceedings of The 5th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science, Ho Chi Minh City: Science & Technics Publishing House, pp. 330-333, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP18C61-ART, ISBN 978-1-5386-7983-8/18/$31.00. Poster presentation at Tôn Đức Thắng University, Ho Chi Minh City.
October 17-26, 2018

Initial exploration of rare and unclassified Nôm books and manuscripts at the Vatican Apostolic Library. See Bulletin of the Vatican Apostolic Library, No. 8, 2018, page 8.
August 31, 2018
A textual study of two versions of Tam Thiên Tự, 1831 and 1915, with Mai Phương Lê, to be published in the Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Hán Nôm Studies, The Institute of Han Nom Research, Hanoi.
May 24-25, 2018
Teaching Vietnamese music through linguistic and folklore contexts with Phan Gia Anh-Thư at the Breaking Boundaries: Community Music Research Symposium, Columbia University Teachers College, New York.
December, 2017
"A Contribution to Teaching Vietnamese Music: Key Pitches in Context and Pitch Contour Graph," with Phan Gia Anh Thư, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Vol 3, No 5 (2017): 573-585. Hanoi: Vietnam. See also a pdf version
November 15, 2017
Capturing the Music: The Digitization and Preservation of Traditional Vietnamese Folk Music, co-author with Phan Gia Anh Thư, Panel 4: Multi-disciplinary Empirical Approaches to Vietnamese Studies, the 12th Annual Global Temple Conference, Howard Gittis Student Center, 10:00 - 10:50AM, Room 217D, Temple University.
October 24, 2017
Presenting the 'facts' of the Vietnam War, by Amanda Lien, The Temple News: Lifestyle.
October 18-21, 2017
A graphic presentation and preservation of Vietnamese storytelling music, paper presented at the 128th Annual American Folklore Society: Community, Resistance, Reclamation, and Re-Creation, Minneapolis, MN. Tracking number: AFS2017-242.
October 4, 2017
Essay: Reflections on the American War, WHYY series, Newsworks: Speak Easy.
October 6-8, 2017
A description of the interactions of linguistic tones in Vietnamese folk music, with Phan Gia Anh Thư (main author), abstract to the 46th Annual Mid-Atlatic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference: Mobility, Technology and the Environment, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
July 25, 2027
Interview by Rebecca Clark, Atyab Jagirdar, Abusayem Mahfuj, and Molly Wu, The Vietnam War Oral History Project, New-York Historical Society, New York, New York.
March 19–June 1, 2017 — 12 session Nôm Class,
NYU Virtual Conference, and Final Calligraphy Session at FACTS, June 8.
March 19–June 10, 2017 — 12 sessions,
— Đàn Tranh for Beginners, 10:00 am–11:30 am, Sundays,
— Guitar for Beginners, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm, Sundays,
organized by Mekong NYC at its office.
—June 18, 2017 1:30-5pm Final recital of students at Forham Bedford, Bronx.
December 15-18, 2016
— A description of Vietnamese ideographic 𡨸喃 chữ Nôm ideograms, for Section 2: Cultural Resources, and
— An initial analysis on the interations of Vietnamese linguistic tones & Vietnamese folk music, co-authored with Phan Gia Anh Thư (main author, Columbia U Teachers College), for Section 2: Cultural Resources,
The 5th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies: Sustainable Development in the Context of Global Change, Vietnam National University, at National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam.
November 9, 2016
— A generative description of Vietnamese 喃 Nôm ideograms and
— An initial analysis on the interactions of Vietnamese music and its lingustic tones, co-authored with Phan Gia Anh Thư, Panel 11: New Contributions in Vietnamese Studies, The Eleventh Annual Global Temple Conference, at Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University.
August 11, 2016
A contribution to teaching Vietnamese music: Key notes in context and pitch contour map, with Phan Gia Anh Thư (Columbia University Teachers College), Proceedings of ICESI 2016 International Conference on Education and Social Integration, pp. 144-156, ISBN 978-0-9945391-06, organized by Temple University Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society and Tôn Đức Thắng University, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam. See also Short slide presentation.
March 6–May 22, 2016 — 12 sessions,
— Đàn Tranh for Beginners, 10:00 am–11:30 am, Sundays,
— Guitar for Beginners, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm, Sundays,
organized by Mekong NYC at its office. May 28, 2016 3-5pm Final recital of students at Poe Visitors Center, Bronx.
January 17, 2016
Khát vọng Việt Nam: Chân dung Việt Nam [Aspiration of Vietnam: A portrait], a VTV1 Digital program, January 17, 2016.
October 2015
Vietnamese Nôm manuscripts field digitization project, Digital Collections, Temple University Libraries. Data from Pilot Village Digital Project in 2014.
June - October 2015
Principal author, A course in Đàn Tranh (Vietnamese zither) for beginners – A Teacher's Background Information, in preparation, with Tô Thuỳ Kim and Phan Gia Anh Thư (Columbia Teachers' College).
May 9-10, 2015
Principal organizer, Elements in the foundations of Nôm Studies — A mini-Conference on Nôm Studies, at Temple University Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society. Cf. Program.
June – September 2014
Field Team Digitization Specialist,
Pilot Digital Project, a joint project of the Temple University Libraries, the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, with the Thừa Thiên Huế General Library, Huế, Vietnam. See Huế Village Collections
June 2013 – present
Adjunct Associate Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University.
March 2012
Proofreader, Từ điển Việt-Anh [A Vietnamese-English Dictionary], by Phan Văn Giưỡng, Hoàng Thị Tuyền Linh & Vũ Xuân Lương, Vietnam Lexicography Center, Social Sciences Publishing House. Hanoi: 2012. 960 pp., 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm.
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 EAP219 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. Full catalog of 2,056 digitized Nôm books.
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 Department.
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).
November 2000
Co-editor of Kỷ yếu Hội thảo Phát triển Khu vực Châu Á - Thái Bình Dương và Tranh chấp Biển Đông [Proceeding of the Conference on the Asia Pacific Development and the East Sea Conflict], with Vũ Quang Việt and Ngô Vĩnh Long. The National Politics Publishing House, Hanoi. 436 pp.
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

2017-present: Member, American Folklore Society
2012-present: Member, Philadelphia Folklore Project
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
1998-2022: 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 Chair
1993-1997: Subcommittee for Vietnamese Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences) — Vice Chair
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 Chair.