Dao Ngoc Chien received the Diploma of Engineer in 1997 from the Department of Telecommunication Systems, School of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, where in the same year he became a Teaching Assistant. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2002 and 2005, respectively, from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Gifu University, Japan. At the Department of Telecommunication Systems, School of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, he worked as the Senior Lecturer from 2005 to 2011, and is currently the Adjunct Professor. He has been appointed to Associate Professor since November, 2010.

His research interests include computational electromagnetics, analysis and design of modern antennas and of nanometric integrated optical circuits based on the surface plasmonpolaritons. He has been a reviewer for several journals/transactions of Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Elsevier, and American Geophysical Union (AGU), as well as for a number of conferences. He has been a member of IEEE, OSA and REV.

He has been served as Deputy Director-General of the Department of High Technologies, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology since November, 2011. He has served several time as leader of Vietnam’s delegation in UNCOPUOS. He is now Chairman of Subcommittee on Science and Technology of Vietnam Space Committee.