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Table of contents
Basics
Name | Quan Minh Tran |
Address | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
quantran.cv@gmail.com | |
Phone | (+84) 357 939697 |
Scholar | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IToKeqYAAAAJ |
Ielts | 7.0 |
Interests
Deep Learning | |
model optimization | |
neural architecture search | |
automl |
Computer Vision | |
object detection / classification | |
pose estimation | |
person reidentification |
Graph | |
graph neural network | |
network analysis |
Representation learning | |
incremental learning | |
metric learning | |
self-supervised learning |
Miscellaneous | |
transfer learning | |
generative models | |
recommendation system |
Education
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2015 - 2020 Bachelor
University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University
Software Engineering
- Thesis: Evaluating the efficacy of small face recognition by Convolutional Neural Networks with interpolation based on auto-adjusted parameters and transfer learning (9.9/10)
Work
- Mar.2023 - current
AI specialist (Freelance)
Choice Vietnam (NGO)
Taking Trash Bin (funded by WWF): Propose and create a product empowered by Deep Learning with an IoT device to recognize 7 different trash’s materials, to give feedback and educate people. The solution is funded by WWF and will be launched in Hue city.
- 2021 - current
Data&AI Lead (Full-time)
Kyanon Digital
- Smart Retail (Team size: 4) - Team leader.
Brainstorm and propose computer-vision-based solutions to increase customer experience on offline shopping. Optimize customer monitoring with DeepSORT and Kalman Filter. Implement Person Re-identification. Propose propensity to buy detection using OpenPose. Propose recommendation based on customer behavior using Graph Neural Network. Research image search with self-supervised learning methods. Setup, manage, and implement the project. Design solution infrastructure. - Face Attendance System (Team size: 2) - Team leader.
Propose learning without forgetting method using ArcFace combined with PoD loss, outperforms other methods. Reproduce and conduct model experiments on Metric Learning, Incremental Learning. Design system infrastructure for serving. - Digital Training Course for Unilever Vietnam (Team size: 4)
Program editor (lecture, lab, quiz), lecturer and teaching assistant of 2 specializations: Executive Data Science (4 courses) and Python for Data Science (4 courses).
- Smart Retail (Team size: 4) - Team leader.
- 2018 - 2021
AI Researcher (Full-time)
Kyanon Digital
- Influence Prediction (Team size: 4, funded by VinIF)
Analyze and process data crawled from Facebook, 9,225 users, 27,442 posts and 24901 interactions. Research and propose a method to predict the influence of a given post before publishing using Graph Neural Network and Attention mechanism, outperforms GCN, GraphSAGE, GAT, achieves Average Precision 95,42%. - Amplification factor score (Team size: 3, funded by VinIF)
Propose a method to detect micro-influencers and measure their amplifications on social media networks. Create Amplified Graph Convolutional architecture, no labeling effort, can deal with multi-dimensional edge attributes, robust representation learning, outperforms other SOTA networks such as GCN, GraphSAGE, GAT with mAP 89.04%. - Bottle cap image classification (Team size: 1)
Preprocess, analyze 8000 bottle cap images. Propose light-weight SkippedVGG architecture that outperforms and is significantly lighter than VGG, ResNet, DenseNet with accuracy 99,33%.
- Influence Prediction (Team size: 4, funded by VinIF)
- 2017 - 2020
Research Student
Intelligent Computing and Image Processing Lab, SaiGon University, Ho Chi Minh City
- Low-resolution face recognition
Create a CNN transformation mechanism to retain high performance on extremely low-resolution face images. Propose an efficient transfer learning approach for the method. - Bayesian Optimization
Design a mechanism for low-resolution face recognition leverage automated Bayesian Optimization search to seek optimal CNN architecture regardless of image resolution variance.
- Low-resolution face recognition
Awards
- 2021, 2022
- 2021
Best presentation award
13th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE)
- 2020
Award for very good grade graduation
University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University
- 2015, 2019
Full-tuition scholarships, Academic incentive scholarships
University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University
- 2015 . 2020
Academic incentive scholarships
University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University
- 2015 . 2020
Scholarships for outstanding student
BIDV, KMS, and Fujinet
- 2017
Consolation Prize on the National Olympic Math Competition
Vietnam Mathematical Society
Certificates
Research school on “Machine learning and rough path theory for sequential data analysis” | ||
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology | 2023 |
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization | ||
Coursera | 2021 |
Winter school on Mathematics for Data Science | ||
Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics | 2020 |
Convolutional Neural Network | ||
Coursera | 2020 |
IMH School on Inverse Problem and Deep Learning | ||
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology | 2019 |
Publications
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2022 Measuring the Influence and Amplification of users on Social Network with Unsupervised Behaviors Learning and Efficient Interaction-based Knowledge Graph, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), 44(4), pp. 2919–2945, 2022. (2022)
Tran, Q. M., Hien D. Nguyen, Tai Huynh, Kha V. Nguyen, Suong N. Hoang, Vuong T. Pham.
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2022 Evaluating the Efficacy of Small Face Recognition by Convolutional Neural Networks with Interpolation Based on Auto-adjusted Parameters and Transfer Learning. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1-23. (2022)
Tran, Q. M., Pham, V. T., Nga, D. T. T., & The Bao, P.
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2021 Influence Prediction on Social Media Network through Contents and Interaction Behaviors using Attention-based Knowledge Graph. In 2021 13th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. (2021)
Tran, Q. M., Nguyen, H. D., Nguyen, B. T., Pham, V. T., & Le, T. T.
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2019 Efficient CNN Models for Beer Bottle Cap Classification Problem. In International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering (pp. 713-721). Springer, Cham. (2019)
Tran, Q. M., Nguyen, L. V., Huynh, T., Vo, H. H., & Pham, V. T.
Skills
Programming Language | |
Python |
Deep Learning libraries | |
Torch, Torch Geometric, Keras, Tensorflow |
Data Processing libraries | |
OpenCV, Pandas, Matplotlib, Plotly |
MLOps | |
MLFlow, Airflow, Kafka, Docker, Wandb |
References
Nguyen Thanh Binh | |
Ph.D, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Head of Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. |
Nguyen Dinh Hien | |
Ph.D, Senior lecturer, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam. |
Linh Nguyen | |
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science, University of Idaho, USA. |
Lam Hoang | |
Ph.D, Research Staff Member, IBM Research Europe, Dublin, Ireland |