VietNamNet Bridge – After having lived and worked in Japan for more than 40 years, Professor Dang Luong Mo decided to return to Vietnam, hoping to contribute to his homeland.

Professor Mo is known as the first Vietnamese person receiving a Doctorate of Technology and Science and the title of professor in Japan. He has conducted more than 300 research projects and registered 10 patents for his inventions.

Pursuing his successful career

He is not only an outstanding scientist, but also a translator fluent in Japanese, English and French, having translated a book about microchips, “MOSFET Module in SPICE”, from English into Vietnamese.

Now at the age of 70, he still thinks that he has not contributed much to his homeland. He says he hopes more overseas Vietnamese (OVs) will return to help build Vietnam into a more beautiful and wealthy country.

Professor Mo says he spent more than 40 years living outside Vietnam and achieved certain success, but he always wished to come back home, although he knew he could continue lecturing at the Japan University for several more years.

One day after retiring on March 31, 2003, he returned to stay in Vietnam with his wife.

When he landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City he was moved to tears as he felt really happy to be back home for good this time.

Mo said he is now like every Vietnamese, enjoying the same breath and love of his relatives and neighbours.

Promoting Vietnamese microchip industry

Before returning to the homeland, Professor Mo spent 10 years gearing up for the development of microchip industry in Vietnam.

He planned to develop a training centre with strong belief that it will contribute to the growth of the national economy and the progress of science, technology, education and training in the country.

His IC Design Research & Education Centre (ICDRECT) was founded and recognized as the first successful Vietnamese-made microchip establishment in January 2008, five years after his homecoming.

Dang Luong Mo was born in 1937 in Haiphong. He later studied in Japan and earned an engineering certificate in 1962, a Master’s degree in Science in 1964, and a Doctorate of Technology and Science in 1968.

From 1968-1971, he worked as an expert at the Toshiba Central Institute in Japan and returned to Vietnam to lecture at the SaiGon University of Science (now the Ho Chi Minh University of Natural Science). He became the director of the National Technical Academy (now the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology) in 1973.

He was hired as a high-level expert at the Toshiba Central Institute in 1976 and then taught at the Hosei University in 1983. In 2003 he returned to Vietnam, aiming to make contributions to the development of his homeland.

Source: VOV