Trung Hieu (Harry) Tran, Ph.D.

an Ph.D. in Software Engineering. Interested in Deep Transfer Learning, Transfer Reinforcement Learning, IoT Data Discovery, Distributed Systems;

Trung Hieu Tran was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. Having studied in a very technologically oriented class at the high school for the gifted in his hometown, he got introduced to programming relatively earlier than his peers back in the days, and so he grew to love making programs. He has always aspired to develop himself to become as great as two highly prominent IT industry figures, Bill Gates and the past Steve Jobs. With an inquiring mind, he participated in many contests, such as ACM-International Collegiate Programming Contest and Informatics Olympic Contest for Students, as evidenced by his high achievements.

In 2016, he received a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. He joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science to pursue his Ph.D. in Software Engineering in Spring 2018 and earned the Ph.D. in July 2022 under supervisor Dr. I-Ling Yen and Dr. Farokh Bastani.

In the early career stage of establishment, he has had experience working in big tech companies such as Apple Inc. and Meta Inc. (former Facebook Inc.) in Silicon Valley. He is currently working as Research Scientist at Meta Inc. in Menlo Park, CA, to continue contributing his efforts to billions of people worldwide.

His research interests: Software Engineer, Program Analysis, IoT Data Discovery, Deep Transfer Learning, Cloud Computing, Big Data;

Awards

  • [2018] Scholarship for Ph.D. degree at The University of Texas at Dallas
  • [2015, 2016] Second Prize at Olympic Opening SFU Programming Contest
  • [2015, 2016] Second Prize at Volga Region Opening Team Student Programming Contest
  • [2015] Second Prize at ACM-ICPC Northeastern Europe Regional Programming Contest
  • [2011] Russian Government Scholarship for Bachelor Degree
  • [2010] FPT University Scholarship for Bachelor Degree
  • [2009] Odon Vallet Scholarship for Outstanding Students
  • [2009, 2010] Second Prize in Vietnamese National Olympiad in Informatics
  • [2009] First Prize in Northern Vietnamese Olympiad in Informatics