Dr Minh Dinh
RCC Research Fellow Dr Minh Dinh is returning to his home city next month to take up a lectureship role at RMIT University Vietnam.
Minh will leave Brisbane for Ho Chi Minh City in mid-May for his new job of teaching and developing several new software engineering and IT courses for RMIT’s School of Science and Technology.
Minh has worked for RCC for the last five years as a researcher and scientific workflows expert.
Minh first worked with RCC Director Prof. David Abramson at Monash University, where Minh completed his Bachelor with Honours degree and PhD in Computer Science.
“Having known and worked with Minh since when he was an undergraduate, as a PhD student and finally a post doc’, I am sorry to see him leave UQ,” said David. “He has made a terrific contribution to multiple ARC Linkage proposals, and has been an active eResearch analyst at RCC. But we all recognise the benefits for him in moving on, and I am sure he has a great future ahead of him. Fortunately, we have a few other staff members who will be able to fill the gaps he creates.”
Minh said working at UQ and RCC has afforded him many great career opportunities, from working with technology vendors on ‘real world’ issues, to helping researchers, co-organising conference events (ACSW 2018 and PRAGMA 2017), and coordinating and lecturing the ‘Distributed Computing’ course for the School of ITEE in the last few years, doubling the number of enrolled students from 2017 to 2019.
He has also co-authored several milestone papers at major international conferences, such as the Supercomputing conference, and the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS).
He has worked with a number of UQ researchers across various disciplines. He was involved in developing and promoting RCC’s cloud and high-performance computing technologies, and providing researchers with solutions in the form of the Nimrod and Kepler workflow engines. Several research papers with RCC members as co-authors were the result of these efforts.
Minh visited RMIT Vietnam late last year and gave a guest lecture. “I found the School and the students to be very proactive and enthusiastic,” he said.
In his new role, Minh will work with a range of IT vendors from Vietnam and neighbouring South East Asian countries that are supplying equipment to the university. “I am looking forward to working with such inputs to deliver teaching and learning contents that reflect and fulfil the IT industry's expectations,” he said.
“Personally, Ho Chi Minh City is my home town, so I am excited to be a part of this dynamic city for the next few years.”
Minh returns to Vietnam with his recently expanded family of five, with a baby girl born in February this year, his two older daughters and wife, Thuy Trinh, who worked in financial services at UQ and provided support for RCC.
