HCM City (VNS/VNA) - While there is much more data than everbefore and digital technologies are growing very fast, there is a huge shortageof human resources, experts have told a conference at the Hoa Sen University inHo Chi Minh City.

Speaking to Vietnam News onthe sidelines of the three-day conference starting on November 21, Truong VinhTruong Duy, assistant project manager, research and development, at Aisin SeikiCo.Ltd in Japan, said there was a shortage of people who could analyse datawhile the volume of data is enormous.

The auto industry, for example, hashuge demand for people who could apply artificial intelligence (AI), hesaid.    

Universities in Vietnam are currentlytraining hundreds of students in AI every year but the numbers fall short ofdemand, he said. 

His company is working withuniversities in Vietnam and other countries to provide projects to studentswhile they are still studying to improve their knowledge and experience. 

According to Dr To Hoai Viet, head ofthe software engineering department at Hoa Sen University, his university iscollaborating with many enterprises on new technologies for digitaltransformation to learn from their experience and improve its trainingprogrammes. 

When it has enough experts and advancedtraining programmes, it plans to tie up with enterprises that want to carry outdigital transformation.   

“To address the shortage of digitalhuman resources faced by enterprises, universities should integrate AI, machinelearning and blockchain into other faculties besides IT.” 

They are applied in banking, financeand healthcare, and students of these streams should acquire basic knowledge ofhow to apply them, he pointed out. 

Universities should also offer shortcourses in them for people working in these industries, he said.

Universities should enable IT engineersto do research in them because adopting technologies from other countries meansthe country can only develop after them. So research in the country should bestrengthened, he said. 

Many foreign and Vietnamese scientistsare presenting their research in AI, the internet of things, decision supportsystems, and others at the conference, he added.  

The 14th International Conference onKnowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems aims to facilitatetechnology and knowledge exchange by international researchers and scholars inthe fields of knowledge science, information systems, system science,creativity support systems, and complex system modelling. 

It is being held by Hoa Sen Universityin co-operation with Vintech City, which is a comprehensive eco-systemsupporting tech research and start-ups based on the Silicon Valley model in theUS./.