Xuan-Tu Tran

Xuan-Tu Tran, PhD, SMIEEE (in Vietnamese: Trần Xuân Tú)

Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering,
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU).
Head of VNU-Key Research Group for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB).
Director of VNU Information Technology Institute (VNU-ITI)
Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

 

• Last activities or visits

Current Management Positions

• Director, VNU Information Technology Institute, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
• Head, VNU-Key Research Group for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB).
• Member of the Vietnam National University Hanoi's Council.
• Member of the Scientific & Academic Council of the VNU-UET.
• Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE CAS, IEEE SSCS (Chairman, SSCS Vietnam Chapter).
• Member of the Executing Board of The Radio-Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV) (2009-2014, 2014-2019, 2020-2025).
  Member of the Executing Board of VAIP.
• Member of IEICE (Chairman, IEICE Vietnam Section).

Academic Positions

• Since 2023: Full Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering, VNU Hanoi.
• Since 2011: Associate Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering at VNU-UET.
• 2008-2011: Assistant Professor at VNU-UET.
• 1/2005-2/2008: Engineer-Researcher (PhD student), ASIC design department, CEA-LETI, MINATEC, Grenoble, France..
• 7/2003-12/2004: Engineer-Researcher, ASIC design department, CEA-LETI, MINATEC, Grenoble, France.
• 2000-2003: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
• 1999: Assistant Researcher, Vietnam Institute of Electronics, Information, and Automation (VIELINA), Ministry of Industry, Vietnam.

Vacation academic Positions

• 2024 (June): Invited professor at the University of Genova, Italy.
• 2019 (Nov.-Dec.): Invited professor at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan.
• March 2017 - March 2020: Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
• 2015 (June-July): Invited professor at University Paris-Sud 11, France.
• 2011 (Apr.-May): Visiting professor at Grenoble INP, France.
• 2010-2010 (May-June): Invited professor at University of Paris-Sud 11, France.
• 2009-2009 (July-Aug.): Visiting professor at University of Paris-Sud 11, France.
• 2009-2009 (July-Aug.): Visiting professor at the CEA-LETI, MINATEC and at University of Paris-Sud 11, France.

Biography

Xuan-Tu Tran received a B.Sc. degree in 1999 from Hanoi University of Science and a M.Sc. degree in 2003 from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, all in Electronics Engineering and Communications; and a Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Grenoble INP (at the CEA-LETI), France, in Micro Nano Electronics.
He is currently a full professor at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), and the Director of VNU Information Technology Institute. He was an invited professor at the University Paris-Sud 11, France (2009, 2010, and 2015), the University of Electro-Communication, Tokyo (2019), Grenoble INP (2011), and adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney (2017–2023). He was the Director of the VNU Key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB) from 2016 to 2021, Co-Director of the Joint Technology and Innovation, Research Centre (JTIRC, 2017-2020). His research interests include designing and testing systems-on-chips, networks-on-chips, design-for-testability, asynchronous/synchronous VLSI design, low-power techniques, and hardware architectures for multimedia applications. He is in charge of CoMoSy, VENGME, ReSoNoC, IOTA, ADEN4IOT, Secu-IoT, UBGIoT projects for designing HW architectures of embedded systems and multimedia applications. He has published 3 books, 7 patents and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications in these areas.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS), IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Systems (SSCS), member of IEICE, and the Executive Board of the Radio Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV). He serves as Chairman of IEICE Vienam Section, Chairman of IEEE SSCS Vietnam Chapter. He also served as general chair/co-chair and technical/organizing committee member for numerous international conferences (MCSoC, ICICDT, ATC, DAC, ICDV, DELTA, GIIS, ICCE, RIVF, APCCAS, ICCD, ICCAS, HP3C, NICS, APCC, ACOMP, CommandTel, ICGHIT...), Editor and reviewer for many pretigous scientific journals such as IEEE JSSC, IEEE TCAS-I/TCAS-II, IEEE TVLSI, JSA, Microprocessors and Microsystems, etc. He won the Second Prize (the 2nd best) of "Vietnamese Talents Award" in 2015 (Giải thưởng Nhân Tài Đất Việt) and the VNU Scientific Award for the period 2011-2016.