About

Tran Minh Quan 진선미

Tran Minh Quan is currently a Senior Developer Technologist at NVIDIA, with the focus on the growth of the developer community in Vietnam, especially AI/ML/DS using parallel computing foundation, across multiple scales such as Enterprises (ENTs), Individual Software Vendors (ISVs), Inceptions (INCs), and Higher Education and Research (HERs) entities. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (GPU Computing) from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), both in South Korea. His academic journey was centered around Computer Graphics and Signal Processing. During the graduate training course, he was a full-time researcher in the High-performance Visual Computing Lab, the first NVIDIA GPU Research Center in South Korea (2014). He further enriched his skills as a visiting research assistant at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA), where he contributed to developing a denoising mechanism for connectomics data. His domain of image modalities concentrates on X-ray, CT, MRI, and Electron Microscopy. All can use GPU-accelerated computing to understand biomedical image data. His most notable work includes undersampled MRI reconstruction using a GAN-based deep neural network, which is one of the pioneering works in the MRI community using deep learning (Google scholar citation ~600 since 2018). This work demonstrated that compressed sensing theory maps well to a generative model using cyclic loss. He has published many research papers in top-tier venues, including Nature, IEEE TMI, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TPDS, Medical Image Analysis; and prestigious peer-reviewed conferences such as MICCAI, IEEE ISBI, IEEE CVPR, ISMRM, etc. He is a recipient of the NAVER graduate fellowship. Recently, he has been working on Deep learning-based Generative Adversarial Networks on various problems (neural volume rendering, variationally reconstructed radiographs, anatomical graphs). He also gave talks at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference at GTC2013 (San Jose) and GTCx2016 (South Korea). He was involved in GPU training tours across South Korea for other medical doctors and researchers. His professional background is diverse, with significant contributions to various startups in Vietnam, primarily focusing on the healthcare domain, including VinBrain, Cinnamon, and Talosix as Senior Research/Applied/Data Scientists who intensively used GPUs to accelerate the processing time of medical data (text, images, videos, etc.). Outside his daily work, he was an affiliate lecturer at VinUniversity and has been a technical reviewer of several top-tier journals such as NeuroComputing, IEEE Transactions, others, and prestigious conferences. He is a member of the AI Consultant Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Experiences

NVIDIA, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Design Models for X-ray Inverse Rendering

Jan 2024 - present
Senior Developer Technologist

Talosix, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Design Models for X-ray image projection using Diffusion.

Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
Senior Data Scientist (Computer Vision)

VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Design Models for X-ray image projection using GANs.

Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Affiliated Lecturer

VinBrain, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Design Models for COVID-19 detection in X-ray images using inverse rendering techniques from CT images. Design Models for COVID-19 detection in X-ray images using GANs. Design Models for Lung segmentation in X-ray images. Design Models for Disease segmentation in CT images.

Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Senior Applied Scientist

Cinnamon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Design Models for layout auto correction, textline segmentation in document images. Design Models for stamp localization in driving licenses.

Feb - Oct 2019
Senior AI Reception Executive

High Performance Visual Computing Lab, UNIST

GPU Computing, Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction. High-performance Computing on Heterogeneous Parallel Systems.

2012 - 2019
Research Assistant

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Design Algorithms for Intelligent Volume Rendering.

Feb - Aug 2018
Visiting Research Assistant

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Design Models for Connectomics denoising and segmentation.

Feb - Aug 2018
Visiting Research Assistant

L&Y Vision Technologies Corporation, Daejeon, South Korea

Design Algorithms for Shot Boundaries Detection in Video Sequences. Design Process of MPEG-2 Video Enhancement.

Aug 2011
Research Assistant

Convergence Optoelectronic Device Engineering Lab, KAIST

Design Algorithms for reducing error from captured images of damaged Hologram ID Tags.

May 2011
Research Assistant

Convergence Optoelectronic Device Engineering Lab, KAIST

Design Algorithms for reconstruction of computer-generated holograms (CGHs)

Dec 2010
Research Intern

Smart Sensor Architecture Lab, KAIST

Implement the algorithm for object detection using C/C++. Implement the hardware for object detection using Verilog.

Aug 2010
Research Intern

Korea National Nano Fabrication Center, KAIST

Design Applications with Micro Controller. Build Laboratory Homepage.

Dec 2009
Research Intern

Education

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea.

Doctor of Philosophy

2012 - 2019
Department of Computer Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea.

Bachelor of Science

2008 - 2012
Department of Electrical Engineering

Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam.

Partially Completed

2006 - 2008
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Le Hong Phong High School for Gifted, Vietnam.

2003 - 2006
Department of Chemistry

Publications

IEEE ISBI 2023

P. N. Huy, T. M. Quan, "Denoising Diffusion Medical Models", in Proc. of IEEE ISBI, 2023, pp. 1-5.

IEEE ISBI 2022

P. N. Huy, T. M. Quan, "Neural Radiance Projection", in Proc. of IEEE ISBI, 2022, pp. 1-5.

IEEE CVPR 2021

T. A. Tuan, N. T. Khoa, T. M. Quan, and W.-K. Jeong, "Reinforced Coloring for End-to-End Instance Segmentation", in Proc. of IEEE CVPR, 2021, pp. 16722-16731.

IEEE ISBI 2021

T. M. Quan, H. M. Thanh, T. D. Huy, N. D. T. Chanh, N. T. P. Anh, P. H. Vu, N. H. Nam, T. Q. Tuong, V. M. Dien, B. V. Giang, B. H. Trung, and Steven Q. H. Truong, "XPGAN: X-Ray Projected Generative Adversarial Network for Improving COVID-19 Image Classification", in Proc. of IEEE ISBI, 2021, pp. 1509-1513.

Frontier in Computer Science 2021

T. M. Quan, D. G. C. Hildebrand, and W.-K. Jeong, "FusionNet: A deep fully residual convolutional neural network for image segmentation in connectomics", Frontiers in Computer Science, Vol. 3, Iss.2624-9898, 2021

Water 2020

T. T. Kim, N. T. M. Huong, N. D. Q. Huy, P. A. Tai, S. Hong, T. M. Quan, N. T. Bay, W.-K. Jeong, N. K. Phung, "Assessment of the Impact of Sand Mining on Bottom Morphology in the Mekong River in An Giang Province, Vietnam, Using a Hydro-Morphological Model with GPU Computing", Water, Vol. 12, Iss. 10, pp.2912-2302, 2020

IEEE ICCVW 2019

T. M. Quan, K. G. Lee, Logan A. Thomas, Aaron T. Kuan, D. G. C. Hildebrand, Wei-Chung Allen Lee, and W.-K. Jeong, "Removing Imaging Artifacts in Electron Microscopy using an Asymmetrically Cyclic Adversarial Network without Paired Training Data", in Proc. of IEEE ICCVW, 2019.

MEDIA 2019

N.-D. Thanh, T. M. Quan, and W.-K. Jeong, "Frequency-splitting Dynamic MRI Reconstruction using Multi-scale 3D Convolutional Sparse Coding and Automatic Parameter Selection", Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), Vol. 53, pp. 179-196, 2019.

IEEE TMI 2018

T. M. Quan, N.-D. Thanh, and W.-K. Jeong, "Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction using a Generative Adversarial Network with a Cyclic Loss", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), Vol. 37, Iss. 6, pp. 1488-1497, 2018.

ISMRM 2018

T. M. Quan, N.-D. Thanh, and W.-K. Jeong, "Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction with Cyclic Loss in Generative Adversarial Networks", Annual Meeting International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2018, pp. 3370.

IEEE TVCG 2017

T. M. Quan, J. Choi, , H. Jeong, and W.-K. Jeong, "An intelligent system approach for robust volume rendering using hierarchical 3D convolutional sparse coding", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 24, iss.1, pp. 964-972, 2017.

Nature 2017

D. G. C. Hildebrand, M. Cicconet, R. M. Torres, W. Choi, T. M. Quan, J. Moon, A. W. Wetzel, A. Scott Champion, B. J. Graham, O. Randlett, G. S. Plummer, R. Portugues, I. H. Bianco, S. Saalfeld, A. D. Baden, K. Lillaney, R. Burns, J. T. Vogelstein, A. F. Schier, W. A. Lee, W.-K. Jeong, J. W. Lichtman, and F. Engert, "Whole-brain serial-section electron microscopy in larval zebrafish", Nature, vol. 545, iss. 7654, pp. 345-349, 2017

IEEE TPDS 2016

T. M. Quan and W.-K. Jeong, "A fast discrete wavelet transform using hybrid parallelism on GPUs", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 27, iss. 11, pp. 3088-3100, 2016.

MICCAI 2016

T. M. Quan and W.-K. Jeong, "Compressed sensing reconstruction of dynamic MRI using GPU-accelerated 3D convolutional sparse coding", in Proc. of MICCAI, 2016, pp. 484-492.

IEEE ISBI 2016

T. M. Quan and W.-K. Jeong, "Compressed sensing reconstruction of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI using GPU-accelerated convolutional sparse coding", in Proc. of IEEE ISBI, 2016, pp. 518-521.

MICCAI 2015

T. M. Quan, S. Han, H. Cho and W.-K. Jeong, "Multi-GPU Reconstruction of Dynamic Compressed Sensing MRI", in Proc. of MICCAI, 2015, pp. 484-492.

IEEE TVCG 2014

H. Choi, W. Choi, T. M. Quan, D. G. C. Hildebrand, H. Pfister, and W.-K. Jeong, "Vivaldi: a domain-specific language for volume processing and visualization on distributed heterogeneous systems", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 20, Iss. 12, pp. 2407-2416, 2014.

IEEE ICIP 2014

T. M. Quan and W.-K. Jeong, "A fast Mixed-Band lifting wavelet transform on the GPU", in Proc. of IEEE ICIP, 2014, pp. 1238-1242.


Teaching

Digital Signal Processing, Undergraduate Course, HCMUS

Spring 2022
Lecturer

Summer study on Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, SNU

Summer 2016
Teaching Assistant

Summer study on Machine Learning, SNU

Summer 2015
Teaching Assistant

Heterogeneous Parallel Programming, Coursera

Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant

Massively Parallel Programming (ECE519), Graduate Course, UNIST

Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant

Engineering Programming 1 (ITP107), Undergraduate Course, UNIST

Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant

Data Structure (CSE231), Undergraduate Course, UNIST

Fall 2012
Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Computer Graphics (CSE431), Undergraduate Course, UNIST

Spring 2012
Teaching Assistant

Awards

ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

Aug 2021

ISMRM Educational Stipend

Jun 2018

NAVER PhD Fellowship

Aug 2016

MICCAI Travel Grant

Apr 2016

KAGGLE challenge - Second Annual Data Science Bowl, 65th/192 (Top 34%)

Dec 2015

MICCAI Travel Grant

Apr 2015

KAGGLE challenge - Diabetic Retinopathy Detection, 124th/661 (Top 19%)

Dec 2014

IEEE SPS Travel Grant

Jun 2014

Full Graduate Scholarship from UNIST

Feb 2012

Full Undergraduate Scholarship from KAIST

Feb 2008

High rank in the National Entrance Examination (Top 10%)

Jun 2006

Campaign Medal (Award of Excellence) in Australian National Chemistry Quiz

Jun 2005


Talks

Fast Compressive Sensing MRI Reconstruction on a Multi-GPU System

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference at San Jose, California, USA

Mar 2013
Invited Speaker

Various optimization strategies for implementing fast discrete wavelet transforms on GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference at Seoul, South Korea

Oct 2016
Invited Speaker

Skills