Homepage of Hoang-Son TRAN

Welcome to my homepage. My name is Hoang-Son TRAN (Trần Hoàng Sơn in Vietnamese). I am a PhD student in Mathematics at National University of Singapore (NUS).

Useful links: Google Scholar , CV

Education

• August 2020 to present: PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Supervisors: Professor Subhro GHOSH and Professor Tien-Cuong DINH)

• 2015-2019: Bachelor of Mathematics, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

• 2012-2015: High School for Gifted Students, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

Research

I am interested in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics, and their applications to Machine Learning. 

• Negative dependence as a toolbox for machine learning: review and new developments, 2025, preprint, arXiv:2502.07285 , (with R. Bardenet, S. Ghosh, and V. Petrovic)

• Small coresets via negative dependence: DPPs, linear statistics, and concentration, 2024, NeurIPS spotlight (~ 2.08% total submissions), NeurIPS Proceedings , (with R. Bardenet, S. Ghosh, and H. Simon)

• Learning Networks from Gaussian Graphical Models and Gaussian Free Fields, 2024, Journal of Statistical Physics, rdcu.be/dDio3 , (with S. Ghosh, S. S. Mukherjee, and U. Gangopadhyay)

• Gaussian fluctuations for spin systems and point processes: near-optimal rates via quantitative Marcinkiewicz's theorem, 2021, preprint, arxiv.org/abs/2107.08469, (with T.-C. Dinh, S. Ghosh, and M.-H. Tran)

Awards

• Best Graduate Researcher Award, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 2025

• Faculty of Science PhD Conference Award, NUS, 2024

• Graduate Tutor Merit Award, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 2024

• Graduate Tutor Commendation Letters, Department of Mathematics, NUS, 2023

• NUS Research Scholarship, 2020

• First Prize in Vietnam Mathematical Olympiad for University Students, 2017

• First Prize in Vietnam Mathematical Olympiad for University Students, 2016

• Second Prize in Vietnam Mathematical Olympiad, 2015