The Speakers

Biography: Dr. Son Tran is a lecturer in computing at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science at City, University of London, the United Kingdom in 2016. His research focuses on both theoretical Artificial Intelligence, i.e. bridging the gap between Connectionism and Symbolism, and applications of (deep) Neural Networks for various tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. He has publications in flagship AI conferences and journals such as IJCAI, KR, IJCNN, ECIR, SIGIR, IEEE TNNLS, ACM TMM. Dr. Tran is also a regular reviewer/PC member of IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, IEEE TNNLS.