Hong T.M. Chu is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Vietnam. Prior to her current appointment at VinUniversity, she was a Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore. She received her PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Kim-Chuan Toh. She has received Teaching Assistant Awards from the Faculty of Science (AY 2019-2020 & AY 2020-2021) and has been nominated as a Faculty of Science Postgraduate Alumni Ambassador at the National University of Singapore.