Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

Nguyễn Ngọc Thành
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Born	Quangbinh, Vietnam
Citizenship	Vietnam  Poland
Fields	Informatics
Institutions	Institute of Informatics Wroclaw University of Technology
Notable awards	Boronze Medal for Education (granted by President of Poland) (2007) Title of Professor of Technical Sciences (granted by President of Poland) (2009) Title "Distinguished Scientist" (by ACM) (2009) A note is included in Polish Gold Book of Technical Sciences (2007, 2010) A note is included in Polish Gold Book of Economic, Legal and Formal Sciences (2005) Awards from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Rector of Wroclaw University (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010)

Nguyễn Ngọc Thành - Professor Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Vietnamese informatician at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and is the head of Knowledge Management Systems Department in the Faculty of Computer Science.

Biography

Education

• 1981-1986: M.Sc. studies in Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management. Specialization: Information Systems. He finished the studies with the first class honors.
• 1986-1989: Ph.D. studies in Wroclaw University of Technology. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is: "Methods of choice of set representation". Received the degree of Ph.D. granted by Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989.

Qualifications

• 2002: Received the habilitation degree (D.Sc.) of Computer Science granted by Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.
• 2009: Received the Title of Professor in Computer Science granted by the President of Poland.
• 2009: Received the Titles “Distinguished Scientist” nominated by ACM, IEEE Distinguished Visitor, and ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Positions

• 1990-1991: Teaching Assistant - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
• 1992-2002: Assistant Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
• 2002-2006: Associate Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
• 2006 - 2009: Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
• 2009 - now: Full Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Com-puter Science and Management.
• 2003 - now: Full Professor – The State Higher Vocational School in Nesse, Institute of Informatics.
• 2008 - now: Head of the Division of Knowledge Management Systems, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
• 2008 - now: Head of Agent and Multi-agent Group, KES International (UK) and Chair of international symposium series on Agent and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA)
• 2010 – now: Chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Colletive Intelligence • 2008 – now: Vice-president of International Society of Applied Intelligence (USA)
• 2007 – now: Associate Chair of KES International (UK)
• Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (Springer)
• Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (Inderscience Publishers)
• Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Applied Intelligence Technologies (Book Series, IGI Global Publishers)
• Editor-in-Chief of Computational Intelligence and its Applications – COMIA (Book Series, IGI Global Publishers)

Scientific Activities

Major Research Interests

• computational collective intelligence
• methods for knowledge integration
• inconsistent knowledge processing
• information retrieval
• methods for solving conflicts in distributed systems
• multi-agent systems

Publications and Citations

• monographs: 5
• edited books and volumes: 54
• book chapters: 15
• journal articles and conference papers: over 200.
• book reviews: 3; paper reviews: 15 (published in ACM Computing Reviews).
• technical reports: 15
• number of publications indexed by Science Citation Index (ISI): 110

Scientific Journals

• Editor-in-Chief of LNCS Transactions of Computational Collective Intelligence (Springer)
• Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (indexed by EI, published by Inderscience Publishers)
• Editor-in-Chief of Book Series Advanced in Applied Intelligence Technologies – AAIT (IGI Global, USA)
• Co-Editor-in-Chief of Book Series Computational Intelligence and its Applications – COMIA (IGI Global, USA)
• Area Editor of International Journal of Software and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific, from 2011)
• Associate Editor of

- Neurocomputing, (Elsevier, indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2007)

- International Journal of Innovative Computing & Information Control (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2008)

- International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (indexed by EI, 2003-2007)

- International Journal of Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, (indexed by EI, from 2005)

- Journal of Information Knowledge Systems Management, (indexed by EI, from 2005)

• Editorial Reviewer Board Member of

- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2011)

- Journal of Universal Computer Science (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2004)

- International Journal of Applied Intelligence (indexed by ISI, SCI, from 2003)

- Journal of Universal Science and Technology of Learning (from 2006)

- International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2006)

- International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms (from 2006)

- ACM Computing Reviews

• Guest editor of 25 special issues in journals:

Conference Chair

• The leader of the more 15 conferences (to 2011)
• PC member of over 120 international conferences

Honors

• 2003: Rector prize for achievements in scientific research
• 2006: Rector prize for achievements in didactic activities and scientific research
• 2007: Senior academic scholarship from DAAD (Germany)
• 2008: Rector prize for achievements in scientific research
• 2008: Brown Merit Cross given by the President of Poland
• 2009: Received the Title “Distinguished Scientist” nominated by ACM.
• 2010: Rector prize for achievements in didactic activities and scientific research
• A note about my profile is included in: Polish Gold Book of Economic, Legal and Formal Sciences 2005 and Who is Who in the World

Notes

• GS.TSKH Nguyễn Ngọc Thành: Muốn sinh viên được đào tạo tiến sĩ ở nước ngoài - Phóng sự - Ký sự - Thể thao & Văn hóa
• Niềm tự hào của GS.TS Việt kiều Balan Nguyễn Ngọc Thành
• ACIIDS 2010 và triển vọng hợp tác giữa Đại học Huế với ĐH Công nghệ Wroclaw - Ba lan
• Một người gốc Việt thành danh ở Đông Âu
• Người nhận danh hiệu “Nhà khoa học xuất sắc” trong lĩnh vực công nghệ thông tin-máy tính

External links

• Nguyen's Homepage
• The Europe Distinguished Visitors Program
• Distinguished ACM Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc-Thanh
• Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS is Founded by Nguyen)
• International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI is founded Nguyen)
• International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (Nguyen is an Editor-in-Chief of IJIIDS)
• LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (Nguyen Is an Editor-in-Chief of TCCI)

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Name	Nguyễn Ngọc Thành
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Date of birth	May 25, 1963
Place of birth	Quangbinh, Vietnam
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