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.
Director (2025-present), Co-Director (2022-2025), Deputy Director (2019-2022) of ICT Department, USTH. Member of Scientific and Education Council. Member of University SENATE.
Senior Lecturer (2025-present) and Lecturer (2015-2025) of ICT Department, USTH.
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 !
Q. H. Nguyen, Giang Son Tran, H. Mai & T. M. H. To, “Genome-wide association study reveals new potential quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and genes associated with mineral accumulation under silicon supplementation in Vietnamese rice landraces”, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (SCIE, Q2), 2026.
N. H. Pham, Giang Son Tran, A. Doucet, “Pneu-ConViT: A CLAHE-Enhanced Hybrid CNN–Vision Transformer Ensemble for Pneumonia Classification”, IET Image Processing (SCIE, Q2), 2026.
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.
Giang Son Tran, Q. H. Nguyen, B. M. Chu, N. C. H. Le, H. T. M. To, “Combining image processing and genome-wide association study for revealing quantitative trait loci related to grain size in rice, ” in TNU Journal of Science and Technology, 2025 [accepted].
B. M. Chu, H. T. M. To, 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.
Giang Son Tran, D. M. Nguyen, T. P. Nghiem, “Nutrient Content Estimation in Rice Leaves using Hyperspectral Images and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks,” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks, ICISN’26, 2026.
Giang Son Tran, D. S. Nguyen, T. P. Nghiem, “Chlorophyll Content Estimation in Rice Leaves using Spectral Reflectance with Gradient Boosted Multilayer Perceptron,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology, ICIIT’26, 2026.
N. H. Pham, Giang Son Tran, A. Doucet, “Optimizing Vision Transformers (ViT) for Pneumonia Diagnosis via CLAHE Preprocessing and GAN-Based Augmentation,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology, ICIIT’26, 2026.
O. C. Do, Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, H. D. Tran, C. M. Luong, “Deep Learning for Multimodal Medical Image Fusion: A Concise Review,” in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Science and its Application, CSA’25, 2025.
O. C. Do, Giang Son Tran, T. P. Nghiem, C. M. Luong, “Complementary Deep Features for COVID-19 Screening: Combining Hierarchical Vision Transformers and Convolutional Networks,” in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Science and its Application, CSA’25, 2025.
H. S. Hoang, D. D. Nguyen, T. P. Nghiem, Giang Son Tran, “Improving Table Structure Recognition Based on Content Based Post Processing,” in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Analysis and Pattern Recognition, MAPR’25, 2025.
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.
L. L. Luu, H. T. L. Vu, Giang Son Tran, T.P. Nghiem, “Explainable AI for Detection of Fruit States and Diseases using Faster R-CNN and ConvNeXt Backbone,” in Hội thảo Quốc gia lần thứ XXVIII: Một số vấn đề chọn lọc của Công nghệ thông tin và Truyền thông, 2025.
D. A. Vu, Giang Son Tran, T.P. Nghiem, “A Multitask, Multilingual Prompting Vision Language Model For Vietnamese Language,” in Fundamentals and Applied IT Research, FAIR, 2025.
Q. H. Nguyen, M. L. H. Luu, Giang Son Tran and H. T. M. To, “Sự khác biệt về sinh trưởng và khả năng vận chuyển phosphate giữa các giống lúa bản địa Việt Nam khi bổ sung Silic,” in “Hội nghị Sinh lý thực vật toàn quốc lần thứ 3”, 2025 [accepted].
N. C. H. Le and Giang Son Tran, “A micro management framework for IoT smart farm,” in “Hội nghị Khoa học kỷ niệm 50 năm thành lập Viện Hàn lâm KH&CN Việt Nam”, 2025.
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.
Grad Students
Undergraduate Students
Group project
Internal sup
Grad Students
Undergraduate Students
[BI14 DS] Phạm Duy Anh: Patient EHR Graph Representation for Multi-task Learning
[BI14 DS] Nguyễn Thế Khải: Brain cancer segmentation on Fused Medical Images
[BI14 DS] Nguyễn Lâm Tùng: Chest Medical Image Fusion for Multimodal Clinical Analysis
[BI14 DS] Hoàng Kim Hương: Brain cancer detection on Fused Medical Images
[BI14 DS] Hồ Huyền Châu: Remote Photoplethysmography from Facial Video
[BI14 DS] Ngô Anh Tâm: Multi-Agent Traffic Signal Control using Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Congestion Reduction
[BI14 ICT] Đặng Trung Hiếu: Intracranial hemorrhage Detection and Classification
[BI14 ICT] Vương Hồng Minh: Multi-step Football Player Trajectory Forecasting
[BI14 DS] Hoàng Khánh Đồng: Warehouse Spatial Intelligence
[BI14 ICT] Nguyễn Huy Hải: Reinforcement Learning for autonomous car driving on TrackMania
[BI14 CS] Nguyễn Tiến Duy: P2P file data transfer for SOC/IDS IPS systems
[BI14 DS] Phạm Công Duyệt: Low-Dose Lung CT Image Denoising Using Diffusion Models
[BI14 ICT] Thai Therence: Helmet/road laws Compliance Detection for Motorcycle Riders in Vietnamese Traffic Using YOLO
[BI14 DS] Lê Chí Thanh Lâm: Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning Hybrid CNN-ViT architecture for Chest X-Ray classification
[BI13 ICT] Cấn Minh Hiển: Fraud detection on monitoring transactions
[BI12 ICT] Nguyễn Hoàng Tùng: Deploying and scaling data lakes with Terraform
[BI13 ICT] Tran Ngoc Viet Anh: The Library Management System by Facial Identification
[BI13 ICT] Cao Thai Ha: Content-based image retrieval using Convolutional Neural Network in Lung Cancer images
[BI13 ICT] Nguyen Hoang Phat: Reinforcement Learning Chess Bot with Stockfish
[BI13 ICT] Vu Ha Vy: 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction for UAV images
[BI13 ICT] Pham Le Quy Duc: Fisheye image correction using deep learning
[BI13 ICT] Do Minh Quang: Optimization fisheye curve by correcting distortion
[BI13 DS] Pham Tuan Nam: Image Captioning
[BI13 DS] Nguyen Quang Huy: Applications of Image Fusion in healthcare problems
[BI13 DS] Nguyen Tuan Khai: Comic Analysis
[BI12 DS] Nguyen Cao Nguyen: An Ensemble Deep Learning Model for Multispectral Image Analysis
[BI11 ICT] Bui Le Thao: fertilizer analysis using UAV Multispectral images
[BI12 DS] Chu Bao Minh: Rice grain size estimation using deep learning methods
[BI12 DS] Nguyen Dang Son: pan sharpening hyperspectral image
[BI12 ICT] Nguyen Viet Tung: Improving Communication Protocol and Orchestration Service in ULake
[BI12 ICT] Phi Doan Minh Luong: Bioinformatics software for supporting GWAS analysis of Si absorbtion in Vietnamese rice varieties
[BI11] Vo Thuy Trang: Regression methods for spectral reflectance data
[BA10/BI11] Nguyen Huy Hoang: Prediction of Nutrition concentration on rice leaves using UAV images
[BI11] Nguyen Dang Minh: Image analysis for rice leaf nutrition prediction
[BI11] Nguyen Tung Lam: Pose detection from video stream
[CYTech] Guillaume CALMEL: Deep learning regression methods for multispectral imaging
[BI7] Do Minh Hoang: Development of remote file systems for data lake
[BI10] Nguyen Quang Anh: Web application for remote lung cancer diagnosis
[BI10] To Hoang Khoi Nguyen: Malignancy classification of lung nodule on CT scans using deep learning
[BI10] Nguyen Xuan Tung: Deep Learning Methods for Hyperspectral Image Analysis
[BI10] Pham Gia Phuc: Crop Analysis on UAV images
[BI9] Tran Minh Hieu: Development of Data Query, Extraction and Sharing Tools for Data Lake
[BI9] Nguyen Gia Phong: Development of data lake core
[BI9] Trinh Phuong Thao: Development of Data Lake APIs and Dashboard
[BI9] Nguyen An Thiet: Development of Data Acquisition and Integration Tool for Data Lake
[BI9] Nguyen Quoc Thong: Image Indexing Methods
[BI8] Bui Quang Huy: Pulmonary nodule classification using CNNs on Heat map conversion
[BI8] Le Nhu Chu Hiep: Study and Design a Datalake Architecture
[BI8] Nguyen Tuan Duy: Radiologist and Image management on Lung Cancer Care website
[BI8] Dinh Nhu Minh Phuong: Containerization of machine learning models
[BI7] Do Duy Huy Hoang: USTH interactive virtual world using Unreal Engine
[E4] Yasin Aslan: 3D-based Deep Learning Detection Techiques in Lung Cancer Detection
[BI7] Nguyen Van Hoang Long: Vietnamese Voice Dataset Construction
[BI7] Le Gia Anh Quy: Language model in HMM for speech recognition
[BI7] Bui Quoc Trung: Acoustic model in HMM for speech recognition
[EISTI] Xavier Buisson: Distributed training and inference of Tensorflow
[ULR] Hugo Beranger: Image Processing on FPGA
[BI6] Nguyen Vu Hung: Object detection using Faster RCNN
[BI6] Kieu Quoc Viet: Lung nodule classification
[BI5] Nguyen Minh Duc: Parallelization of Gomoku AI (on GPU)
[BI5] Doan Phan Quoc Bao: Face Detection on Embedded GPUs
[BI4] Nguyen Nhu Khoa: Mobile Document Scanner
[BI4] Vu Tung Son: Application for Data Acquisition
[BI3] Ho Van Cuong: Mobile Phone Tracker
Group Projects
2025-2026:
GP1: Seismic classification using distributed acoustic sensor: Đinh Đức Anh, Phạm Quang Anh, Nguyễn Ngọc Dũng, Nguyễn Khánh Linh, Hoàng Phi Long, Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Long, Quách Nhật Bảo Sơn
GP2: Character and Dialog association in comic: Nguyễn Vũ Hồng Ngọc, Hoàng Khánh Đồng, Phạm Quang Vinh, Nguyễn Lâm Tùng, Phạm Quang Minh, Lê Chí Thanh Lâm
GP3: Depth estimation and object detection
GP4: Study buddy
GP5: Malware classification using machine learning (feature extraction, sandbox API log…)
GP6: Ecommerce recommendation
GP7: ASL
GP8: Legal Document Retrieval using Graph Representation
GP1: URL/Website fake detection
GP2: PDF to LateX
GP3: SmartFarm
GP4: Image Captioning
GP5: Brain MRI Classification
GP6: Comic Information Extraction
GP7: Seq2Seq chatbot
Training/Inference Model Management System for Hyper/multispectral image.
Over/Under-fertilizer analysis system using Hyperspectral image
Rice field fertilizer status using multispectral image
Hyperspectral + RGB image fusion for remote sensing images. HSI to NDVI (as gray) + RGB.
Data management system for hyperspectral/analysis data
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?