Data mining, text mining, active mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information
retrieval.
Publications
T. B. Ho and T.P. Tran and T.N. Tran. Study of protein-protein interactions from multiple data sources. Advances in Data Warehousing and Mining , David Taniar (Ed.), IGC Publisher, Chapter XII, 280-307, 2007.
T. N. Tran and T. B. Ho. Using Inductive Logic Programming for Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions from Multiple Genomic Data. The 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) , Porto, Portugal, October 2005.
T. N. Tran and T. B. Ho. Predicting protein-protein interctions - Some preliminary results. Joint Workshop of Vietnamese Society of AI, SIGKBS-JSAI, ICS-IPSJ and IEICE-SIGAI on Active Mining , Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2004.
T. N. Tran and T. B. Ho. Predicting protein-protein interactions for the budding yeast using Inductive Logic Programming and multiple sources. The 5th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences , Ishikawa, Japan, November 2004.
T.N. Tran. Trend detection in MEDLINE articles on hepatitis B and C. The 64th SIG-KBS, Fukuoka, Japan, February 2004.
T. N. Tran and R. Ichise and M. Numao. Spiral Cycle of Active
Mining by Using an Information Retrieval Approach. Research
meeting of the 132th SIG-ICS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Osaka, Japan, March 2003.
T. N. Tran and R. Ichise and M. Numao. On Incorporating Information
Gathering into Mining Process. The 6th SANKEN (ISIR)
International Symposium, The New Trends in Knowledge Processing - Data
mining, Semantic Web and Computational Science, Osaka, March 2003.
T. N. Tran, R. Ichise and M. Numao. Mining hepatitis data
set using information gathered from biomedical literature.
International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2002), IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM02), Maebashi, December 2002.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Active information gathering by making
use of existing databases. Transactions of the Japanese
Society of Artificial Intelligence, 17(5), 2002.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Text mining from biomedical literature
using term extraction and association rule mining. Proc. of
the International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications , Las Vegas, June 2002.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Toward active mining from on-line
scientific text abstracts using pre-existing sources. Active
Mining, New Directions of Data Mining, pp. 3-11, Edited by
H. Motoda, IOS Pres, Amsterdam, 2002.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Mining medical data with the assistance
of biomedical literature sources. 128th SIG-ICS Workshop,
Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence,
Busan, South Korea, May 2002.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Mining biomedical literature by making
use of existing databases. 54th SIG-KBS Workshop, Japanese
Society of Artificial Intelligence, Hakodate, November 2001.
T. N. Tran and M. Numao. Text data mining in biomedical
literature by combining with an information retrieval
approach. 14th International Conference on Applications of
Prolog, International Workshop on Rule-Based Data Mining,
Tokyo, October 2001.
T. N. Tran, Y. Kikuchi, and M. Numao. Biomedical
literature database retrieval system based on genetic
functions. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of Japanese
Society of Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, June 2000.
T. Yoshizawa, N. T. Tran, A. Tabuchi, S. Kobayashi and
T. Yokomori. Developing RNA Secondary Structure Predition Support
System. SIG-FAI Workshop, Japanese Society of Artificial
Intelligence, Tokyo, March 1998.
Theses:
Dissertation:
Mining Real-world Data by Combining with Active Information
Gathering. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Master's thesis:
Biomedical Literature Database Retrieval System Based on
Genetic Functions. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan.
Bachelor thesis:
RNA Secondary Structure Prediction System Using Tree
Grammar. University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo,
Japan.
Education
Jun 1990: Graduated from the special school for mathematics gifted
students at the Vietnam National
University in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Aug 1996, Mar 1997: Intern at NTT Docomo Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Jun 1999 - Feb 2000: Japan Science and Technology Corporation
- Developing "Chromosome Viewer System" using JAVA language at DOI
Bioasymmetry Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology
(ERATO) Program.
Mar 2001 : Intern at OMRON Inc., Kyoto, Japan
- Set up and experienced Nuance Voice Recognition System based on Voice
XML.
Mar 1990: Encouragement prize in the Vietnam national annual mathematics
competition for talented high school students.
Sep 1992: Selected as one of seven members among Vietnamese university
students for studying in Japan and received scholarships of the
Mombusho (Japanese Education Ministry).
Apr 1996: Extended for receiving Mombusho scholarship till Mar 1998.
Apr 1999: Selected for receiving scholarship of Rotary Club Foundation
for one year.
Apr 2000: Selected for receiving scholarship of Kagami Tokyo Marine
Foundation for three years.
Other activities
Member of the the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.