Son Tran
Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon
Tokyo, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSon Tran is a Senior Principal Scientist based in Tokyo with nine years of industry experience specializing in computer vision, robotics, and multimodal deep learning. He has led and shipped production-scale vision systems across Amazon (including A9) and Microsoft, translating cutting-edge research in object recognition, video search, and event understanding into customer-facing products. Holding a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Maryland, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering skills across Python, C++, Java and databases like SQL and MongoDB. Known for moving models from prototype to production, he has repeatedly bridged research and product teams to deliver scalable ML solutions. Beyond hands-on modeling, he brings systems-level experience from roles spanning startups to large tech—an uncommon mix that helps him optimize both algorithms and their operationalization.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeePhD Computer Vision Image Analysis Image Processing, PhD Computer Vision Image Analysis Image Processing at University of Maryland
Vietnamese
Github Skills (5)
wine7
steamworks7
steam7
compatibility7
proton7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tranlethaison/babysister
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Objects detection and online tracking.
Contributions:4 releases, 94 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
tracking
tranlethaison/ArchEnv
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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