Ph.D. in Computer Science at Institut de Recherche de Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT laboratory), site ENSEEIHT / Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. 2014. [ Read my once-of-a-life-time work? ]
Engineer in Computer Science at Hanoi University of Science and Technology. 2008.
My research mostly focuses on Machine Learning and High Performance Computing, their application in various domains, such as Image Processing or Computer Vision for Medical Images, even on Embedded Systems.
I also work in the domain of Cluster Computing, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing, most notably in Resource Management and Virtualization.
I participate as organizers and PC members of several international and national conferences: VIRT2020, IEEE CloudNet, PACLIC, IEEE KSE, ACM SoICT, IEEE MAPR, FAIR, VNICT, … I also peer-review in international and national journals: IEEE Access, Journal of Realtime Image Processing, Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, Scientific Reports, Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering…
Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH), from 2024 to present.
Co-Director and Lecturer of ICT Department, USTH, from 2019 to present. Member of Scientific and Education Council. Member of SENATE.
Researcher at ICTLab, from 2015 to present.
Teaching and Research Assistant at USTH, from 2014 to 2015.
Research Fellow at IRIT, in SEPIA Team, 2013.
Recognized Developer at XDA-Developers, from 2012 to present.
Lead Developer at AppBauer GmbH, from 2011 to 2015.
Researcher and Developer at Institute of Information and Technology, Department of Software Engineering in Management, 2007-2014.
Lead Developer at Hanoi Software Development Company, 2008.
Malware Specialist at Bkav Corporation, 2004-2005.
Programming with Kotlin, Java, C/C++, C#, Python, Delphi, x86-64 Assembly, etc.
Scripting with Bash (a lot!) and Python.
Web apps with JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Java, Python, PHP and C++.
Backend database management with MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Mobile apps for Android ecosystem.
Algorithm acceleration with CUDA / OpenMP / OpenMPI / Hadoop.
Administration of web/mail/database/file/directory virtual/physical Linux/Windows servers in clusters/grids/clouds.
Vietnamese… err… my native language.
English is somehow fine. IELTS 7.5, TOEFL iBT 97, TOEIC 875.
Français. Pas mal !
Giang Son Tran, L. T. T. Nguyen, Q. H. Nguyen, H. Mai, Q. Phan, M. N. Nguyen, S. S. Tong, P. T. Do, H. T. M. To, “Unraveling new genetic elements associated with the morphological changes and relative silicon content in rice using Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)”, Journal of Plant Biology (SCIE, Q1), 2024.
N. H. Pham and Giang Son Tran, “Apply a CNN-Based Ensemble Model to Chest-X Ray Image-Based Pneumonia Classification”, Journal of Advances in Information Technology (ESCI, Q3), 2024.
M. K. Luong, S. S. Tong, H. Mai, T. M. H. To, Giang Son Tran, D. B. Pham, T. H. Phan, V. C. Le, T. L. Pham, T. H. A. Tong, “UAV hyperspectral image acquisition and processing, an application for nutrient estimation of rice in Vietnam”, Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences (Q2), 2024.
T. N. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, H. D. Hoang, L. G. Nguyen, “A novel missense variant located within the zinc finger domain of the GLI3 gene was identified in a Vietnamese pedigree with index finger polydactyly”, Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (Q2, SCIE), 2024.
D. A. Vu, Q. N. M. Pham and Giang Son Tran, “A Novel Pretrained General-purpose Vision Language Model for the Vietnamese Language”, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (Q2, SCIE), 2024.
O. C. Do, C. M. Luong, P. H. Dinh & Giang Son Tran, “An efficient approach to medical image fusion based on optimization and transfer learning with VGG19”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Q1, SCIE), 2024.
N. T. P. Mai, L. T. T. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran & H. T. M. To, “Genome-wide association study reveals useful QTL and genes controlling the fatty acid composition in rice bran oil using Vietnamese rice landraces”, Functional & Integrative Genomics (Q2, SCIE), 2023.
C. C. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, J. C. Burie, and T. P. Nghiem, “Pulmonary Nodule Detection based on Faster R-CNN with Adaptive Anchor Box”, IEEE Access (Q1, SCIE), 2021.
H. D. Le, Giang Son Tran, “Free-size Accelerated Kuwahara Filter” in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Q2, SCIE), 2021.
T. T. Ha, A. Takasu, T. C. Nguyen, K. H. Nguyen, V. N. Nguyen, K. A. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, “Supervised attention for answer selection in community question answering” in IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) (SCOPUS), 9(2), pp. 203-211, 2020.
B. Teabe, A. Kocharya, B. Ekane, Giang Son Tran, A. Hrach and D. Hagimont, “A remote memory sharing system for virtualized computing infrastructures” in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (Q1, SCIE), Accepted, 2020.
Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem and J. C. Burie, “Fast Parallel blur detection on GPU” in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Q2, SCIE), 17(4), 903-913, 2020.
Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, V. T. Nguyen, C. M. Luong and J. C. Burie, “Improving Accuracy of Lung Nodule Classification Using Deep Learning with Focal Loss,” in Journal of Healthcare Engineering (Q3, SCIE), 2019.
L. Wapet, A. Tchana, Giang Son Tran, and D. Hagimont, “Preventing the propagation of a new kind of illegitimate apps,” in Future Generation Computer Systems, the International Journal of Grid Computing and eSciences (Q1, SCIE), 2019.
A. Tchana, Giang Son Tran, L. Broto, N. D. Palma, and D. Hagimont, “Two levels autonomic resource management in virtualized iaas,” in Future Generation Computer Systems, the International Journal of Grid Computing and eSciences (Q1, SCIE), vol. 29, pp. 1319–1332, 2013.
Giang Son Tran, L. Broto, D. Hagimont, and A. Tchana, “Two-level cooperation in autonomic cloud resource management,” in Journal of Automation and Control Engineering, vol. 1 of ICIAS’13, pp. 217–221, 2013.
B. M. Chu, H. T. M. To and Giang Son Tran, “Rice Grain Trait Estimation Using Color Space Conversion and Deep Learning-based Image Segmentation,” in TNU Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 229, no. 7, 2024.
Q. V. Kieu, V. N. Huynh, T. P. Nghiem, O. C. Do and Giang Son Tran, “A new method for medical image fusion based on Gaussian blur filter and Robinson compass operator,” in Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, vol. 40, no.1, 2024.
C. C. Nguyen, L. G. Nguyen and Giang Son Tran, “Data-centric Deep Learning Method for Pulmonary Nodule Detection,” in Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, vol. 38, no.3, pp. 229-243, 2022.
Giang Son Tran, A. Carlier and D. Hagimont, “An in-depth Evaluation of Frequency-aware Scheduler for Improving User Experience on Mobile Devices,” in Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, 2022.
C. C. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, J. C. Burie and C. M. Luong, “Real-Time Smile Detection using Deep Learning,” in Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 135-145, 2019.
Giang Son Tran, K. V. Kieu and T. P. Nghiem, “Convolutional Neural Network for Classification of Skin Cancer Images,” in Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for Medical Science, ISBN 9781032104201, CRC Press, 2022.
N. H. Pham and Giang Son Tran, “Overview of fine-tuning CNN-Based Models for X-ray Image Classification” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology, ICIIT’24, 2024.
C. C. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran and V. Nguyen, “False Positive Reduction of Pulmonary Nodule on CT image using Attention-based Multiple Instance Learning” in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI’23, 2023.
N. H. Pham, A. Doucet and Giang Son Tran, “Vision Transformer for Pneumonia Classification in X-ray Images” in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology, ICIIT’23, 2023.
T. C. Pham, Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, A. Doucet, V. D. Hoang and C. M. Luong, “A comparative study for classification of skin cancer” in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on System Science and Engineering, ICSSE’19, 2019.
C. C. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, N. Q. Doan, D. Gratadour, J.C. Burie and C. M. Luong, “Towards Real-Time Smile Detection based on Faster Region Convolutional Neural Network,” in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition, MAPR’18, 2018.
Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, T. V. Ho and C. M. Luong, “Extended Process Scheduler for Improving User Experience in Multi-core Mobile Systems,” in Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, SoICT’16, 2016.
Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, N. Q. Doan, A. Drogoul and C. M. Luong, “Fast Parallel Blur Detection of Digital Images,” in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies, RIVF’16, 2016.
N. Q. Doan, T. P. Nghiem and Giang Son Tran, “Dynamic Indexing for Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems using Hierarchical and Topological Network,” in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE’16, 2016.
Giang Son Tran and T. P. Nghiem, “Cooperative iaas resource management: Policy and simulation framework,” in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE’15, 2015.
Giang Son Tran, A. Tchana, D. Hagimont, and N. D. Palma, “Cooperative resource management in a iaas,” in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA’15, 2015.
Giang Son Tran, L. Broto, and D. Hagimont, “Toward informed resource management in the cloud,” in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC’13, 2013.
C. M. Kamga, Giang Son Tran, and L. Broto, “Power-aware scheduler for virtualized systems,” in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop of Green Computing Middleware, GCM ’11, pp. 5:1– 5:6, ACM, 2011.
V. N. Huynh, Q. V. Kieu and Giang Son Tran, “A Pre-processing method for Medical Image Fusion using Image Features,” in “Hội thảo Quốc gia lần thứ XXVI: Một số vấn đề chọn lọc của Công nghệ thông tin và Truyền thông”, 2023.
O. C. Do, C. M. Luong, Giang Son Tran, ““A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network Utilizing the Lion Optimizer for COVID-19 Image Classification,” in Fundamentals and Applied IT Research, FAIR, 2023.
T. L. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, “Fall and Chest-holding Posture Detection from Surveillance Camera with YOLOv7,” in Fundamentals and Applied IT Research, FAIR, 2023.
V. N. Huynh, K.V. Kieu, Giang Son Tran, “Impact of Color Spaces on Medical Image Fusion,” in Fundamentals and Applied IT Research, FAIR, 2023.
Giang Son Tran, T. Herbreteau, C. C. Nguyen, T. P. Nghiem, C. D. Oanh and H. D. Nguyen, “Sử dụng mô hình học sâu trong hỗ trợ xác định vị trí các nốt phổi trên ảnh cắt lớp vi tính,” in Fundamentals and Applied IT Research, FAIR, 2020.
C. D. Oanh, Giang Son Tran, C. M. Luong, H. D. Nguyen, T. D. Kieu, V. N. Nguyen, “Cải thiện độ chính xác cho nhận dạng tiếng nói tiếng Việt trên nền tảng DeepSpeech sử dụng mô hình ngôn ngữ KenLM,” in “Hội thảo Quốc gia lần thứ XXIII: Một số vấn đề chọn lọc của Công nghệ thông tin và Truyền thông”, 2020.
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A small rhythm/music game
Based on Audition Beat-Up mode
Single player at the moment, multi-player is planned
Still in (very slow) development
Coming to Android as a native game. Anyone interested?