CV
Education
- Jan 2024 – Present: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland
- Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Harry Nguyen (primary), Prof. Barry O’Sullivan (co-supervisor)
- Research directions:
- Language modelling for low-resource scenarios; Cross-linguality and Multillinguality of LLMs.
- Complex neural networks for artificial collective intelligence, e.g., Multi-Agent
- Sept 2018 – Nov 2022: B.Eng. in Computer Science (Honors Program), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam
- Valedictorian of entrance examination
- Thesis: Development of an Expressive Neural Text-to-Speech System — Score: 9.9/10. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tho Quan
- GPA: 9.33/10
Publications
LaCoMSA: Language-Consistency Multilingual Self-Alignment with Latent Representation Rewarding
Tran, K.T., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
EACL 2026
Reasoning Transfer for an Extremely Low-resource and Endangered Language: Bridging Languages through Sample-Efficient Language Understanding
Tran, K.T., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
AAAI 2026
IRLBench: A Multi-modal, Culturally Grounded, Parallel Irish-English Benchmark for Open-Ended LLM Reasoning Evaluation
Tran, K.T., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
KDD 2026
Disentangling Language Understanding and Reasoning Structures in Cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Tran, K.T., Vu, H., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
EMNLP 2025
Disentangling Continued Pre-Training: Attention-Driven Routing and Semantic Hub Preservation in Language Adaptation
Tran, K.T., Tran, V.K., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
Under review at ACL 2026
Multi-Agent Collaboration Mechanisms: A Survey of LLMs
Tran, K.T., Dao, D., Nguyen, D., Pham, V., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
Under review at ACM Computing Surveys
Wave2Graph: Integrating Spectral Features and Correlations for Graph-based Learning in Sound Waves
Hoang, V.T.*, Tran, K.T.*, Vu, X.S., Nguyen, D.K., Bhuyan, M., & Nguyen, H.D.
AIOpen (2024) — *co-first authors
MGLEP: Multimodal Graph Learning for Modeling Emerging Pandemics with Big Data
Tran, K.T., Hy, T.S., Jiang, L., & Vu, X.S.
Scientific Reports 14(1):16377 (2024)
UCCIX: Irish-eXcellence Large Language Model
Tran, K.T., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
ECAI 2024
Irish-based Large Language Model with Extreme Low-Resource Settings in Machine Translation
Tran, K.T., O’Sullivan, B., & Nguyen, H.D.
LoResMT 2024 (ACL workshop)
NeuProNet: Neural Profiling Networks for Sound Classification
Tran, K.T., Vu, X.S., Nguyen, K., et al.
Neural Computing and Applications (2024)
ViGPTQA — State-of-the-Art LLMs for Vietnamese Question Answering: System Overview, Core Models Training, and Evaluations
Tran, K.T.*, Nguyen, M.T.*, Nguyen, N.V., & Vu, X.S.
EMNLP 2023: Industry Track — *co-first authors
Personalization for Robust Voice Pathology Detection in Sound Waves
Tran, K.T., Hoang, T., Nguyen, D.K., Nguyen, H.D., & Vu, X.S.
Interspeech 2023
Work experience
- Aug 2023 – Jan 2024: Research Engineer
- Umeå University (WASP Research Arena for Media & Language), Sweden
- Duties included:
- Led instruction-tuning of LLMs for Swedish & Vietnamese using open-source, auto-generated data; released a sparse MoE based on Mixtral 8×7B for these languages
- Helped build/operate an HPC cluster (3× NVIDIA A100, Slurm, Lmod/modules, Docker, enroot)
- Contributed to a 3D “Digital Avatar” AI assistant (facial animation, ASR, TTS, conversational AI) with NVIDIA Omniverse & Riva
- Supported implementation/evaluation of annual VOT visual object tracking challenges
- May 2021 – Jul 2023: Research Resident
- FPT Software, Vietnam
- Duties included:
- Deep learning for speech & audio under Dr. Xuan-Son Vu, Dr. Harry Nguyen, Dr. Khuong Nguyen
- NeuProNet (neural profiling for audio) — accepted to Neural Computing and Applications
- End-to-end personalized model for voice-pathology detection — accepted to Interspeech 2023
- ASR/TTS for low-resource languages (incl. ICIT 2022 TTS paper)
- Led real-time API deployment for COVID-19 cough-analysis (AICOVIDVN)
- Mar 2022 – Aug 2022: Research Intern
- Umeå University, Sweden
- Duties included:
- Social-media big-data pipeline for pandemic tracking/analysis — published at IEEE BigDataService
Academic Services
- Jan 2024 – June 2025: Teaching Assistant — UCC, Ireland
- Lab demonstrator
- Sept 2020 – Dec 2021: Teaching Assistant — HCMUT, Vietnam
- Courses: Intro to Computing; Programming Fundamentals; Data Structures & Algorithms
- Duties included: Practical class instruction and organisation
Skills
- Programming: Python; C/C++
- Deep learning frameworks: PyTorch; TensorFlow; Transformers
- Microservices: Docker; Docker Swarm
- API & web deployment: FastAPI; Streamlit; NetworkX; Gradio
- Tools & platforms: Linux/Unix; Azure Storage; Git, GitHub
- Languages: English — IELTS Academic 7.5 overall
Travel
- ACL 2024: Bangkok, Thailand
- AAAI-25: Philadelphia, USA
- EMNLP 2025: Suzhou, China