Member Profile: Thanh Truong

Username: thanhtruong

Contact: thanh.truong@utah.edu

Home page: http://truong.hec.utah.edu/

Affiliation: The University of Utah

Preferred Language: English

Alternative Languages: Vietnamese

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Author of: 20 Modules

Biography:

* Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

* Director, Institute for Computational Science and Technology, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam

* Founder & CEO, Astonis

Personal Motto: Dare to Dream & Dare to Fail

Life philosophy: Think with your head but live with your heart and not the other way around

My life has been an interesting journey with full of challenges and excitements. It began with a kid selling cigarettes on the streets of Saigon City, Vietnam, then becoming a farmer for hire doing everything from plowing with water buffalos to planting rice field, etc. to a professor in chemistry at the University of Utah, and now a founder of a scientific software company and the Founding Director of a research institute. I am dealing with many challenges everyday but have accepted that if life does not have any challenge then it is not worth living!