LETTER OF MOTIVATION

Hanoi, July 26th , 2021

Dear Professor Dongsoo Han,
I am writing this letter to express my motivation for applying for a researcher position in your
“Intelligent Service Integration Lab – ISI Lab” from the 2022 spring semester.
Since my graduation in 2020, I have been seeking a suitable place to fulfill my desire to do some
interesting projects about advanced computing systems. Then thanks to the introduction of Mr. Anh Van
Vu, I have found out that your laboratory’s research direction about indoor localization was a perfect suit
for my intention.
I believe that working with your current projects would be such an opportunity for me to approach
the knowledge domain about machine learning, deep learning, and distributed computing, which are the
most important fields in the 4.0 Industrial Evolution. These topics always arouse interest in me because of
the questions I’ve been asking myself from the first day I saw a robot dancing in university: how
intelligent an electronic device could be and how we could use it to elevate the life quality of our species.
In my imagination, there will be one day when humans can leave all the hard-working jobs to robots, only
to focus on greater missions like discovering the deep universe or finding the true nature of every existed
thing. That’s a little to say for the far future, but at the moment, my country - Vietnam - is still making an
effort to catch up with the technological advancement of developed countries like Korea. For that reason,
my ultimate goal is to go abroad and learn from the bests so I could make a significant contribution to the
development of science and technology when I return. Besides, I have been working in an R&D company
for half a year, thus I totally understand the difficulty of turning concepts, theories, and mathematical
models into real devices that can support humans in everyday life. From what I know, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology is a special university with a bond connection between industrial
companies and laboratories, which generates many valuable basic and applied research droving the
industrialization of Korea. I am really looking forward to taking part in such realistic and meaningful
projects from your laboratory, such as smart museum adopting indoor localization or implementing a GPS
system inside buildings.
With a background as an engineer specialized in Instrumentation and Industrial Informatics, I can
be really helpful in implementing projects on embedded, wireless, and IoT devices. My experience
involves working with MCU or FPGA-based hardware, and low-level drivers or application programming
on both bare-metal or os-based systems. I’m also the kind of person who honors his commitments, which
means for every assigned task, I always try to make sure they were progressed and finished according to
plan and with the highest quality possible. Another advantage of mine is the ability to acquire and adapt
quickly to new knowledge or new environment, which enabled me to perform well not only in the
academic study and research at schools but also in the high-pressure work at companies.
I have a strong belief that your laboratory and KAIST is an appropriate place for me to gain
knowledge, develop abilities, and ways of thinking to succeed in the rapid change of the technological
world. I believe my qualification and your needs would be an excellent fit. I am pleased to provide any
further information or documents if required. I look forward to your positive response. Thank you for
your time and consideration.
Yours faithfully,
NGUYEN Thanh Minh