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At America's high-tech headquarters, Christopher Hoang Pham is known for his research projects that bring tens of millions of dollars each year, being invited to teach at many major universities. However, he still considers himself '100% Vietnamese, by taking Vietnamese wife, eating Vietnamese food, living Vietnamese style and . Vietnamese people', despite living in the US for 20 years.

On June 5 last year, the Ministry of Education and Training has awarded Vietnamese overseas Vietnamese professor Christopher Hoang Pham a commemorative medal for 'Education cause'. This is considered a worthy recognition and evaluation for the efforts to contribute to the development of Vietnamese education over the past time of intellectuals who have always looked forward to this homeland.

Continuous effort

Professor Hoang Pham (Vietnamese name Pham Hoang) was born and raised in Da Lat. After finishing mathematics, Da Lat University, he came to the US to reunite with his family in 1986. In the United States, how many strangely from the beginning, from language to culture, but Hoang had to cook the intention to learn the talent, first of all for himself, and later to bring what he learned about helping the country.

Like many other Vietnamese, when I first arrived in My Hoang, I had to do all kinds of manual labor such as waiters, porters, guards . to earn a living and have money to study at Community College, then then the University of California and the computer industry at San Jose University.

Thanks to the relentless effort, when going to school, Hoang Pham has always been an excellent student receiving a scholarship from HP Company. After graduation, he was accepted to work at HP easily. But only for about three months, the boss had advised him to go to higher school directly, thinking that he was more likely to go further. So he went on to graduate school, and accepted to work for some big companies in Silicon Valley. In it, there was Sun Microsystems - one of America's leading IT companies at the time.

'Boss' of 20 awards

Professor Hoang Pham and his family during his visit to Vietnam.

In 1998, he chose to work for the famous Cisco System company in Silicon Valley, the high-tech headquarters of the US. Currently, Professor Hoang Pham is Cisco's senior system engineer in the US, and is invited to teach at the University of San Jose, where he studied and a number of other universities.

In 2004, Hoang Pham won the excellent leadership award by founding the BOW program. This program is applied to make Cisco's system can run continuously 365 days a year and only 'die' every year for no more than 5 minutes, and has helped Cisco save tens of millions of dollars each year due to limit hardware and software errors. To date, BOW has been used in many countries around the world.

In 2005, Hoang Pham was awarded the Best Asian-American Engineer of the Year (Asian - American Engineer of the Year) awarded by the Chinese Institute of Engineers on the occasion of the Information Technology Association in Thung. Silicon Valley. In addition, he has had more than 20 other awards in the field of information technology.

The desire to connect Vietnamese intellectuals all over the world

Professor Hoang Pham is one of the key motivators in enhancing the exchange and communication between Vietnamese lecturers and students with other Asian countries and the world through Cisco Asian Affinity network. Network (CAAN). He also contributed to the establishment of a network of Vietnamese IT professionals in the US.

According to Hoang Pham, how to work with the network has many advantages such as being easily contacted, when it is necessary to solve problems, quickly group, share and help each other from afar .

In 2005, Hoang Pham was one of the people who organized the International Scientific Conference of Vietnamese Americans in Silicon Valley. The conference was held right in the headquarters of Cisco, where hundreds of Asian engineers work and many of them are Vietnamese. He hopes to develop this network beyond the US so that Vietnamese intellectuals all over the world can cooperate with each other and affirm Vietnamese talents.

Realizing that domestic students are good at studying, but there are many shortcomings in practical conditions, in 2006, Hoang Pham set up a project and asked for funding from Cisco Systems to equip Hanoi University of Technology with a Information technology lab worth $ 350,000 to help students of the school have conditions to practice information technology, and can have research cooperation with Cisco.

In addition, Professor Hoang also provides technical advice and organization of infrastructure for office staff and teaching staff in Vietnam to upgrade classes and programs according to international training systems. He very much hopes to have conditions to help train a team of high-tech experts so that these people will retrain students.

With a heart that always looks to Vietnam, although he has been in the United States with his family for more than 20 years, Professor Hoang Pham also actively participates in social activities to support his fellow countrymen.

He is a regular participant in charitable fundraising movements in the US to help victims of floods and natural disasters in Vietnam, as well as actively participate in the work of the Vietnamese community in the United States. He said: ' Tired but happy because it means that the community needs me and I can help more people .'

Vietnamese people 100%

In the family, he always pays attention and attaches great importance to preserving the cultural traditions of the Vietnamese people. Hoang Pham wants his children to continue to maintain Vietnamese and Vietnamese culture like him. Although very busy, but still unable to keep track of distant roads, Hoang Pham still takes time to take his children to the Vietnamese class before rushing to work.

At the Vietnamese language school, he joined the class parent committee, and often took over the job of managing traffic outside the school gate to make sure that the children were safe.

On the traditional Tet holiday, although they still have to go to work as usual, they still take the time to bring their son and his twin daughters to attend the Tet holiday of the Vietnamese community in the ministry. Traditional long clothes of the nation.

'20 years living in the US, but I am still one hundred percent Vietnamese, by marrying Vietnamese wife, Vietnamese meals, Vietnamese life and . Vietnamese people ', Professor Hoang Pham said witfully.

Vu Tuan Anh