- I receive
an internship offer from
Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent. I will be there this summer (April 11, 2008)
- My wife and I have a
wonderful Winter
break in California, where we meet many new people and relatives. We
visit Hollywood - universal studios, Disneyland, and Little Saigon. We enjoy
Roses Parade - Los Angeles California and the sunny beach in San Diego. We also
visit UCSD. (Jan 10, 2008)
- I receive the Student Travel Grant awarded by Military Communications Conference 2007. I will go to Orlando, Florida to present our paper ("Adaptive Mobility-Assisted Data Dissemination In Mobile Disaster/Recovery Environments"), during October 29-31.(Oct 3, 2007)
- I have a three day trip to Vancouver, Canada to present our work in PPLive. Vancouver is one of the best places I have ever visited. Downtown Vancouver is smaller than that of Chicago. However, Vancouver has sunny beaches, bridges, and moutains. The city can be viewed from the mountains and beaches. An ideal environment to live. I also meet Miss Nguyet, my former classmate. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in the department of Computer Science, university of Bristish Comlumbia. To Nguyet: Thank you very much for introducing Vancouver (your city) to me. I appreciate. Hope to see you again ! (August 17, 2007)
- We move in a new apartment in Champaign. Let's start a new life here at UIUC. (August 9, 2007)
- Mai and I come back to the US after a month in Vietnam. We enjoyed a great summer in Xuan Mai (our home town in Ha Tay), Hanoi, and Van Don (Quang Ninh). Vietnam has changed very much in 2 years with many new buildings, brigdes, and highways. I have a wonderful chance to meet new relatives in Mong Duong coal mine and understand more about life in Vietnam. Vietnam becomes much closer and my memories about Vietnam are refreshed. It is a very meaningful return after 2 years staying aboard.(August 8, 2007)
- My paper entitles "Adaptive Mobility-Assisted Data Dissemination In Mobile Disaster/Recovery Environments" is accepted as a full paper in MILCOM 2007. I will be presenting this work during October 29-31, in Orlando Florida (August 3, 2007)
- ACM NOSSDAV 2007 is held in the department of Computer Science, university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June 4-5, 2007. Klara is the General Chair. I participate this workshop as a volunteer to assist her and Anda - her secretary (June 4-5, 2007)
- My PPLive paper gets accepted in QShine 2007. I will go to Vancouver Canada this August (May 24, 2007)
- Mai comes back to Vietnam to attend VEF Departure Orientation in Dalat and Hochiminh city (May 19, 2007)
- Mai wins VEF fellowship for graduate study from 2007 to 2009.This Fall, she enters the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC. We are starting a new journey (April 13, 2007)
- Two midterms pass. Unhappy time! I always make wrong calculation.
- Mai has an one-hour interview with VEF staffs for her fellowship. The interview is good. Hope she gets it.(April 4, 2007)
- Received four 2007 summer internship offers from InfoSys, Bytemobile, UIUC-Research Park, and Informatica. However, I decide to stay here at UIUC to shape my research topic. (April 2007)
- My HPDC paper gets accepted as poster presentation (March 2007)
- New semester comes when I finish HPDC paper (1/15/2007)
- Come back from one-week annual conference sponsored by VEF in Houston, Texas. Texas is so boring. Not many attractions, bad public transportation, and unsafe life. I prefer our windy CITY - Chicago.(1/1/2007)
- Ba Hoan becomes an associate professor at Forestry University of Vietnam (11/12/2006)
- Mai gets admission for graduate
program in department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (11/09/2006)
- Buy Chrysler New Worker car
(11/08/2006)
-
Launch this website . I actually update my old homepage (from 2005) to have this page (10/20/2006)
- Mai gets admission for graduate program at department of
Civil and
Environmental Engineering, UIUC (10/16/2006)
- Party sponsored by Bach, Long, and Quoc. We all pass Qual this semester. 20
people (beer, snack, songs, guitar, and chat until mid night) (10/14/2006)
- I pass the Qualifying exam (10/12/2006)
- Nga gets admission for Master
program at Forestry University of Vietnam (10/04/2006)
- 2-day trip to Chicago: The Field Museum, The Art Institute, The Loop, Shedd
Aquarium, Millennium Park, Michigan street, and Boat tour (10/01/2006)
- I take Qualifying exam as the first examinee in System group (09/18/2006)
- Submit PPLive paper
to INFOCOMM 2007
(08/2006)
- 10-hour trip to Chicago for the firework in the Independent day. Return to
UIUC at 4AM (07/14/2006)
- One-week trip to Wisconsin, visit Ngoc and Chi (06/08/2006)
- Mai comes here in the States and lives with me (06/02/2006)
- Join MONET group (the same group with
Hoang Nguyen, another VEF fellow), start
working with Jin Liang, a
senior researcher: very smart and nice guy (01/2006)
