Tony Tran
Machine Learning Engineer · CFD Research Corporation
6820 Moquin Dr NW
Huntsville, AL 35806
Tony Tran is a Machine Learning Engineer at CFD Research Corporation, where he works on efficient machine learning solutions for infrared search and track systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and related edge AI applications. He received his M.S. in Engineering Data Science and B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology from University of Houston with research focus on TinyML and Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for deploying AI models on resource-constrained devices with interest in efficient edge vision, model inference optimization, and robust neural networks.
He has a passion for technology, education, and the environment.
📍 Huntsville, AL · CFD Research Corporation
News
2026
| June 2026 | 💼 I join the Intelligence, Software & Sensing (ISS) Division under Jackson Cornelius at CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL as a Machine Learning Engineer. |
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| May 2026 | 🎓 I graduate the University of Houston with a MS in Engineering Data Science. |
| April 2026 | 🎉 I successfully defend my thesis, Efficient Iterative Neural Architecture Search for Object Detection on IoT Devices, advised by Professor Bin Hu in the Networked Autonomous Intelligent Learning (NAIL) Lab, with research focus on efficient TinyML and Embedded AI. [Slides] |
| March 2026 | 🎉 Our paper ELASTIC: Efficient Once For All Iterative Search for Object Detection on Microcontrollers has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers! [Paper] [arXiv] [Code] |
| March 2026 | 🎉 Our project Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Waste Detection with Conformal Runtime Monitoring has been selected for the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program! In support of our project, NVIDIA is donating 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition and 2× Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kit to the University of Houston. We are grateful to NVIDIA for their generous support of academic research and innovation. |
