Dieu Thanh Nguyen received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover in 2003. Since then she has been working toward a PhD degree at the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung of the Leibniz University of Hannover. Her research interests are video coding and transport of compressed video over networks.
She was a scholar of the foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and obtained the award for excellent student achievement and social engagement from the Leibniz University of Hannover.