Thanh Phat Vo

Thanh Phat Vo

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Nonsmooth Optimization 

• Variational Analysis

• Numerical Analysis

Education

• 2018: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Teacher Education at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• 2021: Master of Art in Applied Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Awards and grants

• 2022:

1. Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Graduate School, Wayne State University, USA (in the amount of $600)
2. Travel Award for the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2022, Heidelberg, Germany (health insurance and lodging costs are covered by Heidelberg Laureate Forum while the flight ticket is covered by my advisor's fund).
3. The M.F. Janowitz Endowed Mathematics Scholarship, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA (in the amount of $1500)
4. The William Martin Borgman Endowed Scholarship for Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA (in the amount of $2500)
5. Outstanding Graduate Student at Wayne State University: only one graduate student in each department receives this award per academic year (in the amount of $500)

• 2021:

1. The M.F. Janowitz Endowed Mathematics Scholarship, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA (in the amount of $1000)

• 2020:

1. The M.F. Janowitz Endowed Mathematics Scholarship, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA (in the amount of $1800)

Selected publications

1. Second-order Characterizations of C1-smooth Robustly Quasiconvex Functions, Oper. Res. Lett. 46, 568–572 (2018) (with P.D. Khanh)
2. Second-order Characterizations of Quasiconvexity and Pseudoconvexity for Differentiable Functions with Lipschitzian Derivatives, Optim. Lett. 14, 2413–2427 (2020) (with P. D. Khanh)
3. A Generalized Newton Method for Subgradient Systems, Math. Oper. Res. DOI: 10.1287/moor.2022.1320 (2022) (with P. D. Khanh and B. S. Mordukhovich)
4. Generalized Damped Newton Algorithms in Nonsmooth Optimization with Applications to Lasso Problems, J. Global Optim. DOI 10.1007/s10898-022-01248-7 (2022) (with P. D. Khanh, B. S. Mordukhovich and D. B. Tran)
5. Globally Convergent Coderivative-Based Generalized Newton Methods in Nonsmooth Optimization, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02093 (with P. D. Khanh, B. S. Mordukhovich and D. B. Tran) 
6. Variational Convexity of Functions and Variational Sufficiency in Optimization, submitted, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.14399 (with P. D. Khanh and B. S. Mordukhovich)
7. Variational convexity of functions in Banach spaces, submitted (with P. D. Khanh, V. V. H. Khoa and B. S. Mordukhovich)

Courses taught by Thanh Phat Vo

Spring-Summer Term 2024 (current)

• MAT2020 - Calculus II

Winter Term 2023

• MAT1800 - Elementary Functions

Fall Term 2022

• MAT0993 - Beginning Algebra

Winter Term 2022

• STA1020 - Elementary Statistics