Truong Xuan Tran may have started his academic career as an electronic and telecommunication engineering major at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, but since coming to the U.S., he’s decided to follow his passion for computer science instead. In 2012, the Vietnam native earned his master’s degree in the field from Arkansas State University, and in 2016, he joined the Department of Computer Science at UAH in pursuit of his Ph.D. "My research interests are machine learning and data mining," says Tran.