Hi,

I am a Vietnamese boat people, escaping from communism in 1979. I was rescued by a Norwegian tanker, Berge Sisu and hence allowed to settle in Norway with my family. I am married and have three boys. We consider ourselves very lucky to survive the escape. We are very happy in Norway but nevertheless, always hope to be able to come back some day to a free and democratic Vietnam.

I received an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Sciences Engineering at Norges Tekniske Høgskole, (now called  NTNU Trondheim, 1984 and a Ph.D. in Informatics at the Institute for Informatics ( Ifi ),University of Oslo. Before joining  Ericsson in 1991, I was working at the Hardware R&D department, Norsk Data, a minicomputer manufacturer in Norway from 1984.

From 1994,  I was assigned to a joined research project between Ericsson, Telenor Research and Unik, which allowed me to work on my Ph.D. degree. My advisors are Professor Pål Spilling  and Professor Jan Audestad, Telenor Senior Advisor and Professor at NTNU.  I  completed my Ph.D. in 1997 with the thesis " Mobility as an Open Distributed Processing transparency".

I am now working at Telenor R&D. I am in charge of Personal Area Networks & Data Applications (PANDA) research activities within the wireless communication department.

Here are some pictures with friends