Trung Thanh Tran
Applied AI Researcher & Builder
I'm an Applied AI Researcher & Builder. I turn frontier research into large-scale AI systems in production, then feed what I learn back into new research — build useful AI, research better ways to build it.
I'm Head of AI & Program Manager for PixtaStock at Pixta Vietnam (PIXTA Inc., Japan), AI architect & co-founder of ClientScan (Oxford), and co-founder of TakeNote.ai. My research centers on efficient, trustworthy multimodal AI for real-world systems — foundation models, vision-language models, on-device AI, and optimized agents. I also review technical books for Manning. Open to consulting and research collaboration — feel free to reach out.
Selected Work
- FaceAge — Scalable Facial Age Estimation Face-only age model · MAE 3.58 on LAGENDA 84k · #1 among non-LLM methods
- Auto Review — AI Image Quality Assessment 30K images/day at Pixta · 70% lower review cost · 99.5% precision
- ClientScan — Enterprise Facial Recognition >99.4% accuracy at 30 FPS · deployed in UK hospitality & gaming
- Learning-to-Rank — Search Re-ranking ~6% revenue lift (~$30K/month) in production at Pixta
- AI Agent Automation Multi-model agents automating daily engineering & research work
Experience
- 2026 — now Head of AI & Program Manager, PixtaStock — Pixta Vietnam (PIXTA Inc.)
- 2019 — 26 AI Expert / Senior AI Engineer — Pixta Vietnam
- 2022 — now AI Architect & Co-founder — ClientScan, Oxford
- 2021 — now Co-founder — TakeNote.ai, Oxford
- 2018 AI Fellow — Pi School, Rome
- 2017 — 18 AI / NLP Researcher — Panasonic R&D Center Vietnam
News
- 2026 New paper — FaceAge: Scalable Facial Age Estimation
- 2026 CAMELLIA — cultural-bias benchmark for LLMs in Asian languages, resubmitted to EMNLP after strong ACL reviews
- 2026 Application reviewer, MenaML Winter School 2026 (Google DeepMind · QCRI · KAUST · Apple · InstaDeep)
Media
- ClientScan Launches AI Facial Recognition Solution for the Hospitality Sector Hospitality Tech
- ClientScan launches facial recognition product to help self-excluded gamblers Biometric Update
- ClientScan to Pitch at Regulating the Game London 2023 Regulating the Game
- Sorgenia e Pi School cambiano la User Experience CMI Magazine
- Sorgenia sperimenta un nuovo chatbot Energia Mercato