Dr. Vi Nguyen achieved her master's and Ph.D. combined degrees in mechanical engineering (2017) at Old Dominion University (ODU), Virginia, US. She is currently a lecturer cum academic coordinator of the Master program in Global Production Engineering and Management (GPE(M)) (Collaboration with TUBerlin) at Vietnamese German University. She is also a member of the Key Research Group in Sustainable Manufacturing and Production Technology at the VGU. Her research interests concentrate on optimization methodologies in manufacturing and transportation. The objectives can be listed as building mathematics models for problems, developing new/modified and practical approaches for analyzing and solving optimization problems in robust design, product development, optimizing route path, and scheduling, Lean manufacturing, and quality management.