VinUni Smart Green Transformation Center

15/10/2026

| Research Excellence at GREEN-X: 04 Research Leaders listed in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% Scopus Database

At GREEN-X, research excellence is built across disciplines - from governance and sustainable economic transition to smart mobility, advanced materials, and artificial intelligence.

Four GREEN-X research leaders - Prof. Edmund J. Malesky, Prof. Chun-Yang Yin, Prof. Zengchang Qin and Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Phuoc Quy Duy - have been listed in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists database in one or more years, across the single-year and/or career-long citation impact lists.

Their recognition reflects the breadth of expertise contributing to GREEN-X’s interdisciplinary research ecosystem and its work to address complex challenges in green transformation, sustainable development, and emerging technologies.

Learn more about the 32 VinUni scientists recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists database in VinUni’s feature: https://vinuni.edu.vn/32-scientists-at-vinuni-questions-from-vietnam-answers-for-the-world/

Meet GREEN-X’s research leaders and discover the expertise driving our research excellence. 👇


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VinUni Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐https://greenx.vinuni.edu.vn/
📧[email protected]

14/10/2026

🌱 GREEN-X is honored to welcome Prof. Daniel M. Kammen as a Keynote Speaker at OIC 2026, bringing groundbreaking insights on energy innovation, smart governance, and resilient energy systems in the AI era.

Read more about our keynote speaker here 👇

Introducing OIC 2026 Day 2 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Daniel M. Kammen - Advancing Energy Innovation for a More Resilient Future

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As a world-renowned energy scientist, Prof. Daniel M. Kammen is an expert in renewable energy, climate policy, and sustainable development. His research combines advanced energy-system modelling with practical implementation, spanning energy innovation, decarbonization, energy access, and climate justice.

On Day 2 of OIC 2026, Prof. Daniel M. Kammen will deliver a keynote address titled:

“Energy Innovation in the AI Era: Powering Productivity, Smart Governance, and Resilient Services.”

His keynote will explore how energy innovation can respond to the rapidly evolving demands of the AI era, connecting advances in energy systems, digital technologies, and smart governance to more productive and resilient services.

With research spanning decarbonized power systems, energy access, smart energy systems, and the deployment of renewable technologies, Prof. Kammen brings a systems perspective to the challenge of building energy solutions that are both technologically advanced and socially responsive.

Join us at OIC 2026 as leading scientists, researchers, and innovators come together to explore how energy innovation can help shape a more productive, resilient, and sustainable future.

30/09/2026

| 🌱 When tourists encounter a “green” action, what makes them believe it represents a genuine sustainability commitment?

(Vietnamese in the comment section)

In tourism, practices such as waste separation, refill stations, renewable energy use, or local product sourcing can serve as sustainability signals that shape how tourists evaluate environmental commitments. However, a key question remains: How do these signals translate into trust and positive perceptions?

This question is explored in the study “From eco-signals to green trust: How tourists evaluate sustainability credibility through online reviews,” co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Phan Thi Thuc Anh and Asst. Prof. Pham Van Kien from GREEN-X, together with Pham Thi Thuy Dung, and published in the Journal of Destination Marketing & Management - a leading SSCI Q1 journal with an Impact Factor of 8.0 in tourism and destination research.

Using 138,683 naturally occurring online tourism reviews from Google Maps and TripAdvisor across 10 coastal and island destinations in Southeast and East Asia, the study examines how tourists interpret sustainability-related signals through their real travel experiences. The research combines natural language processing, dictionary-based text analytics, sentiment analysis, BERTopic modeling, regression analysis, mediation analysis, and robustness checks to uncover how sustainability perceptions are formed.

The findings reveal an important pathway in how tourists evaluate sustainability commitments:
Sustainability signals → Eco-authenticity inference → Green trust → Tourist sentiment

The study shows that:
✅ Sustainability signals in online reviews strengthen tourists’ perceptions of environmental authenticity.
✅ Perceived eco-authenticity contributes to the formation of green trust, which becomes the key mechanism linking sustainability practices to more positive tourist sentiment.
✅ Once green trust is considered, eco-authenticity alone does not have a significant direct effect on sentiment, highlighting that authentic sustainability practices create value when they build confidence in environmental responsibility.

These findings suggest that sustainability efforts should go beyond communicating “green” actions. To generate meaningful impact, practices need to be visible, credible, and experienced by tourists in real contexts.

By leveraging large-scale online review data, the study also demonstrates the potential of digital traces to reveal how tourists perceive and evaluate sustainability practices, while opening new directions for future research on technology-enabled approaches to understanding sustainable tourism behavior.

🔗 Read the full research article at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212571X26000818?dgcid=coauthor


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Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐https://greenx.vinuni.edu.vn/
📧[email protected]

28/09/2026

🌱 GREEN-X is honored to welcome Prof. Sir Richard Henry Friend as a Keynote Speaker at OIC 2026, bringing pioneering insights on semiconductor materials and sustainable technologies for the AI-powered economy.
Read more about our keynote speaker here 👇

Introducing OIC 2026 Day 1 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sir Richard Henry Friend - A Pioneer Advancing the Semiconductor Materials Behind Future Technologies
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As a pioneer in the field of organic semiconductors and polymer electronics, Prof. Sir Richard Henry Friend has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding and developing carbon-based semiconductor materials. His research has paved the way for next-generation electronic technologies, including advanced display technologies, photovoltaic applications, and flexible electronic devices.

On Day 1 of OIC 2026, Prof. Sir Richard Friend will deliver a keynote address titled:

“Next-Generation Semiconductor Materials and Green Technologies: The Sustainable Hardware Foundation for an AI-Powered Economy.”

His keynote will explore the intersection of advanced semiconductor materials, green technologies, and artificial intelligence, and how breakthroughs in materials science can power technologies that are not only more capable, but more efficient and sustainable.

As AI continues to reshape economies and industries, progress depends not only on better models and data, but on the advanced materials and hardware platforms that allow these technologies to evolve.

Join us at OIC 2026, where leading scientists, researchers, and innovators come together to explore the future of technology, sustainability, and innovation.

22/09/2026

| GREEN-X joins a Swiss-Asia-Pacific research collaboration on the green transition

(Vietnamese in the comment section)

Assoc. Prof. Thi Thuc Anh Phan, Associate Vice Provost, Executive Director of GREEN-X at VinUniversity, is Project Co-Lead for Vietnam in “Governing System Transformation: Political Cleavages and Social Legitimacy in the Green Transition,” funded through a Research Network Grant from Leading House Asia Pacific.

The project brings together researchers from Switzerland, Indonesia and Vietnam to examine who feels left behind in the green transition - and how these experiences shape trust and support for climate policy.

At the kick-off workshop in Bern, Switzerland (21–22 September 2026), Assoc. Prof. Phan presented “Vietnam in Green Transition,” contributing Vietnam’s context and perspectives to the team’s comparative research.

Thank you to Leading House Asia Pacific and our research partners for supporting this collaboration.


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VinUni Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐https://greenx.vinuni.edu.vn/
📧[email protected]

17/09/2026

What if sustainability research did not end with a paper — but continued into data, AI, technology, real-world deployment and measurable impact?

This is the direction we are building at GREEN-X, VinUniversity.

Across three interconnected pillars — AI-Enabled Green Policy & Governance, AI-Enabled Circular & Low-Carbon Economy, and AI for Tropical Blue Economy — we are developing a new generation of research outputs:

🌿 Industry Innovation Intelligence, including the Industry Innovation Index; Vietnam Economy Intelligence; and Agentic Green Policy Intelligence to understand, benchmark and support green and digital transformation.

♻️ AI-powered carbon and water intelligence, autonomous water treatment & reuse, and Agentic Circular Economy Intelligence to help move cities and industries toward lower-carbon, more circular systems.

🌊 Physical AI adaptive feeding systems, ocean robots for biodiversity conservation, multimodal agentic farm intelligence, and Blue Data & AI Foundation Models for tropical aquaculture and marine ecosystems.

What makes this especially exciting is Vietnam itself — our enterprises, cities, coastal regions and tropical ecosystems can become living laboratories where we generate unique data, advance science and AI, deploy solutions, and learn what actually works.

From Vietnam, for challenges that extend far beyond Vietnam.

GREEN-X | Science and Technology for a Greener Tomorrow.

17/09/2026

| 🌱 Làm thế nào để biến những định hướng phát triển đô thị thành các hành động cụ thể cho chuyển đổi xanh?

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Ngày 16/9/2026, Trung tâm Chuyển đổi Xanh Thông minh VinUni (GREEN-X) phối hợp cùng Viện Nghiên cứu Phát triển TP.HCM (HIDS) tổ chức Hội thảo Khoa học với chủ đề “Cơ hội chuyển đổi xanh từ Luật Phát triển đô thị”, quy tụ các nhà quản lý, chuyên gia, nhà nghiên cứu và đại diện doanh nghiệp cùng trao đổi về những cơ hội, thách thức và định hướng thúc đẩy chuyển đổi xanh đô thị trong bối cảnh mới.

Hội thảo có sự tham gia của PGS.TS. Phan Thị Thục Anh - Phó Hiệu trưởng, Giám đốc Điều hành Trung tâm Chuyển đổi Xanh Thông minh (GREEN-X), cùng các chuyên gia chuyển đổi xanh của VinUni và đại diện các cơ quan quản lý, tổ chức, doanh nghiệp.

Trong khuôn khổ chương trình, các diễn giả đã thảo luận về vai trò của Luật Phát triển đô thị trong việc tạo nền tảng pháp lý cho quá trình phát triển đô thị bền vững, đồng thời chia sẻ những góc nhìn về cách chuyển hóa định hướng chính sách thành các giải pháp triển khai thực tiễn dựa trên dữ liệu, công nghệ và sự phối hợp đa bên.

Các nội dung trao đổi tập trung vào những vấn đề trọng tâm trong quá trình chuyển đổi xanh của TP.HCM, bao gồm cách tiếp cận liên ngành trong quy hoạch và quản trị đô thị, xây dựng hệ thống dữ liệu xanh, thúc đẩy khu công nghiệp sinh thái, phát triển năng lượng tái tạo, cũng như tạo động lực để doanh nghiệp tham gia vào quá trình xanh hóa.

Thông qua hội thảo, GREEN-X tiếp tục phát huy vai trò kết nối giữa nghiên cứu khoa học, chính sách và thực tiễn, góp phần thúc đẩy các giải pháp chuyển đổi xanh dựa trên bằng chứng và hỗ trợ các địa phương trong hành trình hướng tới phát triển bền vững.

📸 Cùng nhìn lại những hình ảnh nổi bật từ hội thảo!
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Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐 Website: greenx.vinuni.edu.vn
✉️ Email: [email protected]

14/09/2026

| From Green Maturity to Smart Solutions: VinUniversity Showcases University-Led Pathways for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes

At the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Member Webinar Series 2026, faculty members from VinUniversity's Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X) shared interdisciplinary research and implementation experiences on how science, technology, and collaboration can accelerate sustainable transformation.

Under the theme "From Green Maturity to Smart Solutions: University-Led Pathways for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes," GREEN-X highlighted three key approaches:

🔹 From Green Ambitions to Actionable Transformation Roadmaps
Assoc. Prof. Phan Thi Thuc Anh introduced the Green Maturity Model (GMM) - an evidence-based framework with 10+ transformation pillars, 130+ criteria, and 76 quantitative indicators to help cities move from ambition to action.

🔹 AI for Sustainable Coastal Landscapes and Climate-Resilient Blue Economies
Asst. Prof. Phung Manh Duong showcased GREEN-X’s research applying AI, IoT, and robotics to support smart mariculture and coral reef conservation - from reducing aquaculture costs (60–70% tied to feed) to addressing ecosystem loss (191 hectares of coral lost in Nha Trang Bay between 2002 and 2024).

🔹 Smart Waste Management and Circular Solutions for Sustainable Cities
Asst. Prof. Ly Quang Viet shared GREEN-X’s approaches in in decentralized water treatment, circular resource recovery, and AI-enabled environmental solutions - as water scarcity is projected to affect up to 2.37 billion urban residents by 2050.

GREEN-X's contributions at APRU SCL reflect VinUniversity's broader commitment: bridging research, technology, and real-world implementation through global collaboration - empowering cities and communities to build greener, smarter, and more resilient futures.



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Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐 Website: greenx.vinuni.edu.vn
✉️ Email: [email protected]

08/09/2026

| JOIN GREEN-X AT APRU SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND LANDSCAPES ONLINE WEBINAR 2026:
From Green Maturity to Smart Solutions: University-Led Pathways for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes

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How can universities turn research, innovation, and collaboration into practical pathways for greener, smarter, and more resilient cities and landscapes?

Join GREEN-X at the first webinar of the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Member Webinar Series 2026 - a platform for scholars and practitioners to exchange knowledge and explore solutions for sustainable urban and landscape development.

The webinar will share research and implementation experiences in green transformation, demonstrating how university-led research can be translated into practical solutions.

GREEN-X will present approaches and technologies across three areas:

- Green maturity assessment and pathways from green ambition to action
- AI-enabled solutions for sustainable coastal landscapes, smart mariculture, and climate-resilient blue economies
- Smart waste management, circular cities, data, and resource recovery

Featured Speakers:
🔹 Assoc. Prof. Phan Thi Thuc Anh, Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director of Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🔹 Asst. Prof. Phung Manh Duong, College of Engineering and Computer Science & Smart Green Transformation Center
🔹 Asst. Prof. Ly Quang Viet, College of Engineering and Computer Science & Smart Green Transformation Center

📅 Date & Time: September 9, 2026 | 7:00–8:30 a.m. Hanoi
💻 Format: Online Webinar via Zoom

👉 Register now: https://uoregon.zoom.us/meeting/register/GdTAToCnQlSi8ZF_J8Ejgg #/registration


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Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X)
🌐 Website: greenx.vinuni.edu.vn
✉️ Email: [email protected]

07/09/2026

OPEN INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2026: EXPLORE SIX CONFERENCE TRACKS ON AI-POWERED ECONOMY

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What kind of AI-powered economy do we want, and who gets to shape it? OIC 2026 brings together scientists, policymakers, and business leaders to turn that question into action, steering AI-driven transformation toward sustainable, equitable growth.

Under the theme "Reshaping the AI-Powered Economy", co-organized by VinUniversity through the Smart Green Transformation Center (GREEN-X), Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Duke Center for International Development, OIC 2026 - the opening event of VinFuture Prize Week 2026 - welcomes research submissions across 6 thematic tracks.

PILLAR 1 | ECONOMY, SOCIETY & POLICY IN THE AI ERA

Track 1 | AI-Powered Economy, Productivity & National Competitiveness
For research on how AI and digital transformation are shifting business models, industry structures, and national economic performance.

Track 2 | Markets, Governance & Responsible AI in the Digital Society
Focused on data governance, AI regulation, ethics, privacy, and public-sector innovation.

Track 3 | Education, Healthcare & Tourism in the AI Era: Transforming Service Models
For work on how AI is changing how human-centered services are designed and delivered.

PILLAR 2 | STRATEGIC SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Track 4 | AI, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity & Quantum Technologies
Covering the foundational technologies behind intelligent, secure, and resilient digital systems.

Track 5 | Smart Manufacturing, Robotics, Automation, Semiconductors & Advanced Materials
For research at the intersection of high-tech manufacturing and next-generation industrial innovation.

Track 6 | Smart Agriculture, Marine Technology & Environmental Technologies
Focused on technology-driven approaches to food systems, the blue economy, and climate resilience.

Find your track and submit your paper: https://oic.vinuni.edu.vn/conference-tracks/

Paper Submission Deadline: September 8, 2026