Summary
Trung Tran is an AI-focused data scientist and serial founder with eight years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems across computer vision, vision-language models, and LLMs. He is Data Scientist at Pixta Vietnam, CTO of ClientScan—a privacy-first, high-accuracy face recognition product validated by Microsoft—and co-founder of TakeNote.ai, a speech-to-text startup born from Oxford collaborations. Trung bridges research and product: he consults on AI strategy, reviews technical books for Manning, and conducts research to optimize foundation models for edge deployment. His work emphasizes human-centred, high-impact applications that run efficiently on commodity hardware, delivering sub-400ms recognition at >99% accuracy in real settings. Fluent in turning cutting-edge models into practical, compliant solutions, he combines academic training from Politecnico di Torino and Pi School with hands-on engineering at Panasonic R&D and startups. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of collaborating with senior industry CTOs to commercialize research-grade AI.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Scholar at Pi School Italia, Scholar at Pi School Italia at Pi School
HUST
Navigation and Related Applications, Navigation and Related Applications at Politecnico di Torino