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DAT TRAN  –  CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Personal Details:

 

  • Name: Dat Tran
  • Gender: Male
  • Tel:  (02) 6201 2394 (work)
  • Fax: (02) 6201 5231 (work)
  • Email: dat.tran@canberra.edu.au  
  • Marital status: Married
  • Citizenship: Australian 

 

Educational Qualifications:

 

  • Ph.D.
    • University: University of Canberra
    • Country: Australia
    • Major Course: Doctor of Philosophy in Information Sciences and Engineering
    • Thesis title: "Fuzzy approaches to speech and speaker recognition"
    • Start Date: 7 February 1997
    • Date Graduated: 31 July 2001

·        Graduate Diploma

    • University: University of Canberra
    • Country: Australia
    • Major Course: Graduate Diploma in Information Sciences
    • Start Date: February 1996
    • Date Graduated: December 1996

·        M.Sc.

    • University: University of Ho Chi Minh City
    • Country: Vietnam
    • Major Course: Masters of Science in Theoretical Physics
    • Thesis title: "Decays of elementary particles in theory of quantum fields in the eight-dimensional unified space"
    • Start Date: April 1991
    • Date Graduated: June 1995

·        B.Sc.

    • University: University of Ho Chi Minh City
    • Country: Vietnam
    • Major Course: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Theoretical Physics
    • Thesis title: " Feynmann diagrams in theory of quantum fields in the eight-dimensional unified space"
    • Start Date: September 1979
    • Date Graduated: May 1984

 

Employment History:

 

·        February 2001 -  :

·        Position: Full-time senior lecturer

·        University: University of Canberra, School of Information Sciences and Engineering

·        Country: Australia

·        Subjects: Software Technology 2, Languages and Compilers, Software Engineering 3A, Web Design and Programming, E-Commerce: Technical Issues, and Programming Graphical User Interfaces. 

·        June 2000 – September 2000:

·        Position: Co-op Pre-Professional Computer Analyst

·        Company: Pen Technologies Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

·        Country: USA

·        Job: Machine learning approach to handwriting recognition

·        February 1999 – June 2000:

·        Position: Casual tutor

·        University: University of Canberra, School of Information Sciences and Engineering

·        Country: Australia

·        Subject: Software Technology 2

·        February 1996 – June 2000:

·        Student at University of Canberra, School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australia

·        Courses: PhD in Information Sciences and Engineering, and Graduate Diploma in Information Sciences.

·        September 1984 – June 1995:

·        Position: Full-time lecturer

·        University: University of Ho Chi Minh City, Faculty of Physics

·        Country: Vietnam

·        Subjects: Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Analytical Geometry, Differentiation and Integration, Theory of Group Representation and its application to theory of Quantum Mechanics, and Statistics in Physics. 

 

Teaching and Learning:

 

·        Course Convenor: Honours in Information Sciences since 2004

·        Subject Convenor and Lecturer: Software Technology 2 UG, Languages and Compilers UG, Web Design and Programming G, Information Sciences Extension Studies PG, and Programming Graphical User Interfaces PG

·        Lecturer: E-Commerce: Technical Issues PG

·        Postgraduate Supervisor: 2 Master by research students (completed in 2005 and 2006), 1 PhD student (completed in 2007), 1 PhD student

 

Professional Attainment:

 

  1. Authorship of 24 research papers in 2007, 18 in 2006, 13 in 2005, 9 in 2004, 6 in 2003, and 7 in 2002, listed under the DEST publication categories; and 1 creative work (PhD Thesis) in 2001.
  2. Conduct or leadership of research/development activities:

·        Conference Chair of the WSEAS conferences in 2007 (CEA 2007 and CISST 2007)

·        Board Member of the WSEAS (Australian Chapter of the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society), since 2004

·        Member of Research Committee of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, India, 2004

·        Member of Research Committee of the International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, India, 2003

c.      Record of award of research grants, competitive contracts or development funds

·        University Research Grants: awarded in 2007 (AI), 2005 (CI) by University of Canberra, Australia.

·        Three (03) Completion Grants 2005 awarded by Division of Business, Law and Information Sciences, University of Canberra, for projects in BioInformatics and Intrusion Detection.

·        Divisional Research Institute Grant (CI): awarded in December 2003 by Division of Business, Law and Information Sciences, University of Canberra, Australia. Project title: Person Authentication Using Speaker Verification and Verbal Information Verification.

·        University Research Grant (CI): awarded in June 2001 by University of Canberra, Australia. Project title: A combined ensemble-fuzzy normalisation method for speaker verification.

d.     Recognition from peer groups, by way of prizes or other formal awards, of successful professional practice

·        Marquis Who’s Who in the World: the applicant’s biography has been included since 2001

·        Marquis Who’s Who in Sciences and Engineering: the applicant’s biography has been included since 2006

·        Researcher level 3 (University of Canberra Active Researcher Classification Scheme)

·        Supervisor of higher degree by research students at University of Canberra (Stage 2, approved on 15 October 2003)

·        School Service Award for Research Endeavour, awarded by Prof. John Rayner, Head of School of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra, Australia, 2003.

·        Australian Speech Science & Technology Association (ASSTA) Travel Award for attending the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) in Jeju, Korea, 2004.

·        Australian Speech Science & Technology Association (ASSTA) Travel Award for attending the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) in Beijing, China, 2000.

·        First prize in the Postgraduate Division of the IEEE ACT Section Student Paper Contest for the paper entitled "Fuzzy Entropy Models for Speech Recognition", Australia, 2000.

·        Outstanding Student Paper Award, Top Honor, at the 18th Anual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), for two papers entitled "Fuzzy expectation-maximisation algorithm for speech and speaker recognition" and "Fuzzy hidden Markov models for speech and speaker recognition", 11 June, 1999, USA.

·        First prize in the Postgraduate Division of the IEEE ACT Section Student Paper Contest for the paper entitled "Hidden Markov models using state distribution", 1998, Australia.

·        Ph.D. Scholarship (1997 - 2000), University of Canberra, 1997, Australia.

·        "Le Qui Don" Prize for outstanding academic achievement, University of Ho Chi Minh City, 1984, Viet Nam.

e.      Appointment as a recognised authority or expert to external agencies, professional bodies or other appropriate institutions/organisations

·        Co-op Pre-Professional Computer Analyst in handwriting recognition and machine learning, Pen Technologies Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA, June 2000 – September 2000.

f.       Recognition by way of election to fellowship or similar standing by recognised organisations within the field of expertise

·        Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electric and Electrical Engineers, USA)

·        Member of the ESCA (European  Speech Communication Association)

·        Member of the ASSTA (The Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Incorporate)

 

University and Community Services:

 

  1. Course Convenor for the Honours in Information Sciences course, School of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra.

b.     Contribution to the Proposal for Emergence of an Area of Research Strength, submitted by Professor Jennelle Kyd on behalf of the Security and Forensic Centre on 23 April 2004

c.      Demonstration of

·        Research and teaching work on UC Open Days since 2001

·        Automatic voice recognition system, Science Festival in August 2004

d.     School Service Award for Research Endeavour, awarded by Prof. John Rayner, Head of School of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra, Australia, 2003.

  1. Examiner for the following postgraduate theses

·        1 PhD thesis (Natural Sciences University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2002)

·        3 Masters theses (Griffith University, 2003 & 2004)

·        1 Masters thesis (The University of the South Pacific in Fiji, 2005)

  1. Reviewer for the following international journals

·        IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (since 2000),

·        IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics – Part B (since 2001),

·        IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (since 2002),

·        Bioinformatics Journal (since 2004)

·        Pattern Recognition (since 2005)

  1. Reviewer for the following international conferences

·        The International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences (CMLS 2007)

·        The WSEAS conferences in 2006 and 2007

·        The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists in 2007

·        The World Scientific Conference in 2005,

·        The ICONIP Conference in 2005,

·        The AFSS conference in 2002,

·        The International Conference on Spoken Language Processing in 2000,

·        The Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Conference in 1999

  1. Conference Chair for the following international conferences

·        The 2007 WSEAS International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (CEA 2007)

·        The 2007 WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Signal and Telecommunications  (CISST 07)

  1. Session Chair for the following international conferences

·        The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists in 2007

·        The ICONIP Conference in 2005,

·        The KES Conference in 2005

·        The Joint Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Vietnam-Japan Symposium on Fuzzy Systems and Applications in 2002,

  1. Member of  Program Committee for the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, India, 2004, and the fifth International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition in 2003

 

Research Publications:

 

2007

  1. D.T. Tran and T.D. Pham, "Modeling Methods for Cell Phase Classification", Book chapter in the book Advanced Computational Methods for Biocomputing and Bioimaging, Editors: Tuan D. Pham, Hong Yan, Denis I. Crane, Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA, ISBN: 1-60021-278-6, chapter 7, pp. 143-166, 2007
  2. Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Dharmendra Sharma, Hong Lin, and Mary Anderson, "Concurrent Programming with Multiagents and the Chemical Abstract Machine", Book chapter in the book Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Techniques, pp. 26-47, 2007
  3. Dharmendra Sharma, Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Shuangzhe Liu, and Mary Anderson, "MAITS: A Multiagent Based IT Security Approach", Book chapter in the book Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Techniques, pp. 189-209, 2007
  4. Tuan Pham, Dat Tran and Xiaobo Zhou, “Fuzzy Information Fusion of Classification Models for High-Throughput Image Screening of Cancer Cells in Time-Lapse Microscopy”, KES Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 237-246, IOS Press.
  5. T.D. Pham, D.T. Tran, X. Zhou, and S.T.C. Wong, “A microscopic image classification system for high-throughput cell-cycle screening”, International Journal  Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 67-77, 2007
  6. Dat Tran, Wanli Ma, and Dharmendra Sharma, "Fuzzy Obser