Nguyen, Son Van was born on March 18, 1956 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Son of Khai Van and Hoa Thi (Bui) . Bachelor of Arts, State University of New York-Plattsburgh, 1978. Ph.D, Brown University 1981. Additional education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Vermont
Graduated from the Brown University, Ph.D 1981
Research chemist Exxon Research and Engineering, Baytown, Texas, 1980. CTO for Dielectrics Group, Applied Material 2002.Research scientist, engineer International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, Essex Junction, Vermont, in Hopewell Junction, New York, in San Jose, California, In York town Height, New York, and in Albany, New York since 1981.
Member New York Academy Science, Electrochemical Society, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi.
