Hung Quang Ngo is the recipient of the first Guidant Fellowship awarded by the Computer Science and Engineering. The Guidant Foundation established a fund in the Institute of Technology to provide fellowships in the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering for students of academic merit. The Guidant Corporation is a world leader in the design and development of cardiovascular and medical products.

Hung Ngo is pursuing his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Ding Zhu Du, who describes Ngo as one of the best students he has ever had. Mr. Ngo received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology in Vietnam, an M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Ngo has been a teaching assistant and research assistant in the department and worked as a software design engineer intern at Microsoft one summer. His research interests are networking and combinatorics, distributed in both system and theory. He has 24 publications, including five book chapters and a book, eight journal papers and seven conference papers. He expects to complete his dissertation within the next year. More information about Mr. Ngo is available on his web site http://wwwusers.cs.umn.edu/~hngo/.

-Georganne Tolaas