PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Minh N. Do

Minh N. Do is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and in 2025 he was named a member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. He won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1991, earned a doctorate from EPFL in 2001, and joined the Illinois faculty in 2002. In 2005 he published a paper on the contourlet transform, and in 2014 he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to image representation and computational imaging. He served as Vice Provost of VinUniversity in 2020–2021, and in 2022 VinUniversity and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced the opening of the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center.

Works
428
Citations
21,538
h-index
62

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1991–1997

    Olympiad silver and Canberra medal

    He wins a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1991, and he receives a University Medal from the University of Canberra in 1997.

  2. 2001–2002

    Joining the Illinois faculty

    He completes a doctorate in communication systems at EPFL in 2001, and he joins the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty in 2002.

  3. 2005

    The contourlet transform paper

    A paper on the contourlet transform, an efficient directional multiresolution image representation, appears in 2005.

  4. 2014

    Elevated to IEEE Fellow

    He is elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to image representation and computational imaging.

  5. 2020–2021

    Vice provost at VinUniversity

    He serves as Vice Provost of VinUniversity in 2020–2021.

  6. 2022

    A smart health research center

    In 2022, VinUniversity and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announce the opening of the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center, which focuses on biotechnology and data science.

  7. 2025

    National Academy of AI member

    He is named a member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence in 2025.

  8. Since 2014

    Professor at Illinois

    He has been a professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2014.

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  1. Minh N. Do: Biography minhdo.ece.illinois.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Minh Do - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Minh N Do | Bioengineering | Illinois bioengineering.illinois.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Minh N. Do: Publications minhdo.ece.illinois.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Do named 2014 IEEE Fellow | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Illinois ece.illinois.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Minh N Do | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Illinois ece.illinois.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. VinUni collaborates with the University of Illinois to establish smart health center vietnamnews.vn. Checked 15 October 2026.