Chi-Vinh Ngo, Ph.D.

• The GPL Photonics Laboratory        Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics (CIOMP), Changchun, Jilin, China

Associate Professor                                                                                                                                         4/2022 – 12/2022

Assistant Professor                                                                                                                                           4/2018 – 3/2022

 

- Built a new sanitation system funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

- Established an optical laboratory with installations of high power and high repetition rate femtosecond and nanosecond lasers.

- Managed a research team (including assistant professors, PhD. students, and M.S. students) for their research.

- Fabricated fecalphobic surfaces, slippery surfaces, superhydrophobic surfaces, and superwicking surfaces.

- Controlled wettability by various techniques: direct one-step laser machining, femtosecond laser ablation + heat treatment, polymer/metal imprinting, chemical coatings, and so on.

- Developed various applications using advanced functional surfaces: water harvesting, anti-corrosion, anti-icing, self-cleaning, anti-feces, anti-bacteria, control of adhesion, water transportation, superwicking, and so on.

- Produced functional surfaces for companies/hospitals/universities.

- Participated in a recruitment team.

- Managed the mechanical workshop.

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• Hybrid Manufacturing Technology Lab (HMT Lab)                                                     University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

Postdoctoral Professional Researcher                                                                                                             9/2017 - 3/2018

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                            9/2012 - 8/2017

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- Acted as a lab leader to support lab activities (research, finance, regulations, conferences, workshops, orientation and so on)

- Fabricated superhydrophobic transparent/non-transparent surfaces.

- Developed wettability-control techniques: nanosecond laser ablation + moldings, heat treatment, mechanical machining, chemical coatings, commercial laser printing, and 3D printing.

- Participated in other projects: development of composite material (PA6/PP/MaPP)/CF/CNT, carbon deposition using nano-particle deposition system (NPDS) for conductive superhydrophobic surfaces.

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• Laboratory for Nanotechnology (LNT)                                               Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                  2/2012 - 7/2012

 

- Participated in a research project to develop sensors detecting liver cancer.

- Simulated and produced the nano Silicon Nitride cantilever by IntelliSuite and MEMs processes (mask design, photolithography, DRIE, wet etching)

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• Faculty of Materials Technolgy                                                                   Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                9/2010 - 12/2011

 

- Participated in a research team to develop a method of determining the critical temperature TC of high-temperature superconductors (YBCO) based on the change of magnetization ratio using a chemical process and manual measuring system.