Born and raised in Hòa Bình, Việt Nam, Tùng came to Wabash College, IN in 2015 and eventually earned a Bachelor’s degree in Experimental Psychology in 2018. For the following three years, he assumed employment positions in psychology and neuroscience laboratories at UPenn, Stanford, and UC Davis Med. Fall of 2022, Tùng commenced his PhD journey at the arboreous Virginia Tech. His interests include monoamine-driven reward behaviors in mice, neurodegeneration, ballroom dance, and the opera.