page_title: Shi Nguyen-Kuok
section_title: Higher education
hierarchical_section_title: Shi Nguyen-Kuok / Higher education
caption_attribution_description: English: lab
context_page_description: Shi Nguyen-Kuok is a plasma scientist and the chairman of the VinIT Institute of Technology.
context_section_description: In August 1984, Shi Nguyen-Kuok came to the Soviet Union and began his first year of studying at the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University). While he studied at the institute, he engaged in research in the physics and technology of low-temperature  plasma, participating in student scientific conferences. Nguyen-Kuok received awards from the academic council and rector of the institute and certificates of honor from the Leningrad City Council for successful participation in study and research work. In 1989, he graduated with a M.Sc. degree from the institute with honors. In the same year, he began working in the institute as an assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology in a laboratory for plasma technique and technology.
  In June 1992, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis called "Simulation of the interaction between flow solid particles and plasma" and was awarded a PhD specializing in electrotechnology. That same year, the scientific council of the institute recognized it as the best thesis in a competition, and Nguyen-Kuok was selected for postdoctoral study at the same institute. 
  In March 2002, he wrote a dissertation work, "Investigation of the Induction and Arc Plasma Torches", for a D.Sc. degree with a specialty in electrotechnology from the institute. The Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation praised the work as the best-defended dissertation of 2002.
caption: Nguyen-Kuok in a laboratory
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