He went to special math classes for gifted children at Chu Van An and Hanoi-Amsterdam high schools.
[1] In his PhD thesis, Vu, together with Kim, developed a theory for concentration of measure of polynomials (and non-Lipschitz functions in general).
In 2011, they proved the "four moment" theorem, establishing universality of local law of eigenvalues of random matrices.
[5] In 2012, Vu was awarded the Fulkerson Prize (jointly with Anders Johansson and Jeff Kahn) for the solution of Shamir problem.
By Mathscinet statistics (as in 2022), he ranks third among the most cited mathematicians with PhD in 1998 (behind E. Candes and C. Villani) https://mathcitations.github.io/ This article about a Vietnamese scientist is a stub.