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Basics

Name Quan Minh Tran
Address Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Email 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

  • 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).
  • 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%.
  • 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.

Awards

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