My T. Thai

Upon completing her PhD, Thai joined the University of Florida as an assistant professor and received a Young Investigator Award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for her project "C-WMD: Models, Complexity, and Algorithms in Complex Dynamic and Evolving Networks."^[2] She also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Awards from 2010 to 2015 for her project "Optimization Models and Approximation Algorithms for Network Vulnerability and Adaptability."^[3] In 2015, Thai became the first woman to be named a Full professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida.^[1] The following year, she was named a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor from 2016 to 2019.^[1]

In 2019, Thai was appointed the Associate Director of The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.^[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Thai was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her "contributions to modeling, design, and optimization of networked systems."^[5]

• My T. Thai publications indexed by Google Scholar