Do van Thanh, Dr. Scient.
Professor - Senior Research Scientist
Contact Info
Research Interests
Dept. of Telematics
Publications
Patents
Open Mobile Services
Professional Background

Professional Background

Education

- Sivilingeniør Diplom in Electronical Engineering and Computer Science (MSc) from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway in 1984

- Doctorem Scientarum (PhD) in Informatics from the University of Oslo, Norway in 1997

Employment

Dec 84 - Jan 88:
Research & Development Engineer
Norsk Data a/s - Department of Research and Development - Hardware Group
Main work area: I/O and memory

Jan 88 - Feb 89:
System Engineer
Norsk Data a/s - Department of Research and Development -
Small Unix System
Main work area: PC and Unix/Xenix

Feb 89 - Sep 89:
Senior Hardware Engineer
Norsk Data a/s - Product Innovation Department - Hardware Platform
Main work area: PC and terminals

Sep 89 - Apr 91:
Senior System Engineer
Norsk Data a/s - ND ServiceTeam - Unix Department
Main work area: Unix and X Window

Apr 91 - Apr 94:
Senior Engineer
Ericsson Norway - Department of Broadband Networks
Main work area: High Speed Networks - SMDS - ATM

Apr 94 - Apr 97:
Ph.D. candidate - Scientist
University of Oslo - UNIK Center for Technology at Kjeller
Main work Area: IN - UPT - TINA - ODP - CORBA - Mobile Systems

Apr 97 - May 99:
Senior Scientist
Ericsson Norway - Applied Research Centre
Main work Area: Mobility & Distributed Object Computing - Wearable commmunications - IPv6 - Mobile Agents - Security - Mobile e-commerce

Associate Professor
University of Oslo - Institute for Informatics -
Unik - Center for Technolgy at Kjeller
Main work area: Communication Systems - lecturing a 3 credit graduate course on Mobile Communications

May 99 - Jan 00
Principal Scientist
Ericsson Norway - Applied Research Centre
Main work Area: Mobility & Distributed Object Computing - Wearable commmunications - IPv6 - Mobile Agents - Security - Mobile e-commerce

Associate Professor
University of Oslo - Institute for Informatics -
Unik - Center for Technolgy at Kjeller
Main work area: Communication Systems - lecturing a 3 credit graduate course on Mobile Communications

Jan 00 - Jun 00
System Manager
Product Line Mobile e-commerce Ericsson Norway -
Main work Area: Mobile commerce application Architecture - WAP - Security - WML

Associate Professor
University of Oslo - Institute for Informatics -
Unik- Center for Technolgy at Kjeller
Main work area: Communication Systems - lecturing a 3 credit graduate course on Mobile Communications

Jul 00 - Jan 01
Senior scientist
Wireless Communications - Telenor R&D
Main work Area: Mobile applications

Associate Professor
University of Oslo - Institute for Informatics -
Unik - Center for Technolgy at Kjeller
Main work area: Communication Systems - lecturing a 3 credit graduate course on Mobile Communications

Jan 01 - Now
Senior scientist
Wireless Communications - Telenor R&D
Main work Area: Mobile applications

Full Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Department of Telematics
Main work area: Mobile Systems and nomadic communications - lecturing an advanced course on Mobile Communications

Technical skill and experiences

  • Hardware Development: Design, testing, debugging and maintenance of different MC680XX-based I/O controllers of ND 500 such as MPM-5 Bus, SCSI controller, Ethernet controller, etc.
  • Firmware Development: Design and implementation of real-time firmware (driver) for different I/O controllers.
  • Software Development: Design and implementation of various UNIX device drivers for Norsk Data Minicomputers, Design and implementation of SMDS (Switched MultiMegabit Data Services), VLL (Virtual Leased Line) for ATM using Object Oriented method.
  • System Specification and Integration: Testing, evaluation and modification of both hardware and software, i.e. terminal controller, SCSI controller, Ethernet controller, X25 controller for ND5100/xi, a PC AT bases Xenix system.
  • Hardware Evaluation: evaluation of different AT 386 PCs, X Terminals, X applications from different manufacturers.

 

Professional skill and experiences

  • Participation to international organisations:
    • Norwegian Data representative at OSF (Open Software Foundation) from 1987 to 1991. OSF defined Motif on X Window
    • Participated to TINA Consortium Mobility Working group from 1998 to 1999
    • Ericsson Norway delegate at IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) from 1997 to 1999 on Mobile IP, Ipv6.
    • Participated to the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) forum from 1997-2000
    • Nomitated as Expert Evaluator for EU IST 5th framework and participated to evaluation of applications in mobile work & mobile e-commerce in June 2000.
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Globecom 2000, Workshop on Service Portability, San Francisco, USA, 27 Nov - 1 Dec, 2000.
    • Member of the Program Committee of the IC-AI 2001, The International Conference on Artificial Conference, Las Vegas, 25-28 June, 2001
    • Co-chair of the SCI 2001 (International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics & Informatics), Session on Mobile Virtual Network Operators, Orlando, USA 22-25 July 2001
    • Co-chair of the International Workshop on Internet Bots: Systems and Applications, Munchen, Germany 3-7 Sep 2001
    • Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE Internation Conference on Communications - Global Service Portability and infrastructure for Next Generation Virtual Home/Office Environment Symposium, New York 28 April - 2 May 2002
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Fifth International Baltic Conference on DB and IS, Tallinn, Estonia, 3-6 June, 2002
    • Member of the Program Committee of the International workshop on Agents for Business Automation, Las Vegas, 24-27 June, 2002
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2002), Singapore, 23-25 October, 2002
    • Co-Chair of the Panel session: Seamless Mobile Services: Can They Cope With Access, Domain and Device Heterogeneity? Co-Chair: Hemant Chaskar, Nokia Research Center, USA - Panelists: Dirk Trossen, Nokia Research Center, USA, Michael Gardner, BT Exact, UK, Mikael Nilsson, Ericsson, Sweden
    • Nomitated as Expert Evaluator for EU IST 6th Framework Programme and participated to evaluation of applications in mobile work & mobile e-commerce in June 2000
    • Member of the Program Committee of the UMICS 2004 Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems, Riga, Latvia, 7 - 8 June, 2004
    • Member of the Program Committee of the The 2004 IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (INTELLCOMM 04), Bangkok, Thailand, 23 - 26 November 200
    • Member of IASTED Technical Committee
    • Reviewer at Special Research Opportunity (SRO) Program at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
    • Member of the Program Committee of The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'04) Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004
    • Member of the Program Committee of The International Conference on Grid Services Engineering and Management (GSEM'04) Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004
    • Member of the Oganising Committee of the Special Session" Personal Information: Management and Security " at the 3rd WSEAS International Conference of INFORMATION SECURITY, HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CODESIGN ANDCOMPUTER NETWORKS, Copacaba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 12-15, 2004
    • Telenor representative at OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), a consortium promoting standard mobile terminal platform from September 2004.
    • Member of the Program Committee of the The 2005 IFIP International Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (INTELLCOMM 04), Montreal, Canada, 17-19 Octobre 2005 ·
    • Publicity co-chair & member of the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob'2005, Montreal, Canada, August 22 - 24, 2005
    • Member of the Program Committee of the CAiSE Workshop Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems UMICS 2005 - Porto, Portugal 13-14 June 2005
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-20 July 17, 2005 ·
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-20 July 17, 2005
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Advanced Industrial Conference on Wireless Technologies, Montreal, Canada, 14 -18 Aug 2005
    • Member of the Program Committee of The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'06) Växjö, Sweden, November 14-16, 2005
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Mobile Services and Ontologies (MoSO 2006), Nara, Japan, May 10-12, 2006
    • Member of the Program Committee of the CAiSE Workshop Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems UMICS 2006 - Luxembourg, June 5-6 2006
    • Publicity co-chair & member of the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob'2006, Montreal, Canada, Jun 19-21, 2006
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications, French Caribbean, Feb 19-22, 2006
    • Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006), Miami, Florida, USA, August 7-10, 2006
    • Member of the Program Committee of The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'06) Zurich, Switzerland 4-6 December, 2006
    • Member of the Program Committee of the 49th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. GLOBECOM 2006, San franscisco, USA, 27 Nov - 1 Dec 20006
    • Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA'07), Newport Beach, California June 19-20, 2007,
    • Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Application and Security Services in Web and pervasive environment ASWAN 07 , Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain), China, June 16- 18, 2007
    • Member of the Program Committee of the Mobile Services and Ontologies (MoSO 2007), Manheim, Germany, May 7 - 11, 2007
    • Member of the Program Committee of the CAiSE Workshop Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems UMICS 2007 - Trondheim, June 11-12, 2007
    • Member of the Program Committee of the 1st ERCIM Workshop on eMobility- Coimbra, Portugal May 21, 2007 "
    • Member of the Program Committee of The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'07) Halle, Germany, November 26-28, 2007

 

  • Participation to international projects:
    • Stockholm project, a joint project between Ericsson Norway, Ericsson Sweden and Swedish Telecom aiming to model, analyse and compare between ATM-network and SDH-network both technically and economically for the Stockholm region
      (1991-92)
    • P3A project which is responsible for the realisation of the hardware and software to be delivered to the Broadband Pilot Project initiated by the German PTT Bunderpost (1991-93)
    • Wireless PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a joint project between Ericsson Norway, Sweden og Gemany aiming at developing a security infrastructure for mobile systems (1999-2000)
    • Several Eurescom projects P1101, P1151, P1307, P1242, P1441
    • Eureka CELTIC ADPO (personalised ADaptive POrtal framework) project with France Telecom, Telefonica, FT Euralab, Speed-trap, Linus and Oslo University College.

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  • Project management:
    • Project manager of multiple projects at Norsk Data
    • Manager of the mobile E-commerce innovation project (accomplished in May, 1998)
    • Manager of the Research project IMiS (accomplished in 2000).
    • Project leader of Eurescom project P1101 "Always On" Device Unifying Service April 2001-December 2002 with the participation of BT, Telenor, Deustche Telecom, Island Telecom, OTE (Greece), Czech Telecom.
    • Project leader of Eurescom P1242 "Web service Ochestration - Sep 2002 - Mar 2003
    • Project leader of Eurescom P1307 " Multi Device service Delivery" - Mar 2003 - Mar 2004
    • Project leader of Eureka Celtic ADPO (personalised ADaptive POrtal framework) project (2003-2006)
    • Project leader of Eureka Mobicome (MObile fixed COnvergence in Multiaccess Environment) project (2007-2009)

     

  • Educational experiences:
    • Supervision of multiple accomplished Master and PhD theses
    • Ellaboration and Lecturing a 3-credit graduate course on Mobile Communications.
    • Lecturing and supervising in the Master of Telecom Strategy program of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
    • Completed the compulsory Pedagogy Course for scientific staff at NTNU.