Viet-Trung Tran is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Information and Communication Technology (SOICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST).

He received his PhD in Computer Science from ENS Cachan / INRIA (France) in 2013, with a focus on scalable data-management systems for Big Data. Before and alongside academia, he worked in industry and research labs—including BKAV, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Trendiction (Luxembourg), and FPT—as an intern, engineer, and data scientist.

In 2015 he co-founded giasan.vn, an early real-estate analytics platform for Vietnam (3rd prize, Talent of Vietnam Award 2017; exited in 2018). He is interested in applying large-scale data analytics and machine learning to problems with clear social and economic impact.

Research interests

• Large-scale / distributed data management and analytics
• Natural language processing and understanding (especially Vietnamese)
• Applied machine learning for real-estate, healthcare, labor, and financial markets

For students

• Teaching — course materials and project guidelines
• Topics — open and closed project topics for students
• Portfolio — public software and course repositories
• CV — education, experience, and selected publications

Profiles: SOICT · Google Scholar · ORCID · GitHub · LinkedIn