Planning to become a teacher herself,[1] she studied mathematics at the Thái Nguyên College of Education from 1986 to 1990, earning a bachelor's degree, and on graduating became a lecturer in mathematics at the same institution. She continued her education at the Hanoi University of Education, earning a master's degree in 1995 and then at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology, earning her Ph.D. in 2001,[2] under the joint supervision of Prof. Nguyen Tu Cuong and Marcel Morales of Joseph Fourier University.[5]