The Asian Scientist 100
Dang Thi Oanh
Head of Division of Science
Institution
Thái Nguyên University of Information and Communications Technology
Country
Vietnam
Field
Mathematics
Dang won the 2015 Elsevier Foundation Award for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World for developing algorithms to solve problems that are normally too complicated for computers.
(Photo: The Elsevier Foundation)
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