Hieu Tran
CS PhD Student at University of Maryland
I'm a PhD student at University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), advised by Prof. Marine Carpuat in the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab. Previously, I was a Senior ML Engineer at BLACKBOX AI, focusing on large language models and their applications in code generation. I'm also a member of VietAI, advised by Minh-Thang Luong and Trieu H. Trinh, where we work to advance AI research in the Vietnamese community.
Research interests
LLM interpretability & control — steering via representation & activation editing
Agentic / multi-agent LLMs — autonomous agents, deep research, coding agents, tool use optimization
Multilingual LLMs & Reasoning — cross-lingual transfer, multilingual reasoning, synthetic data augmentation
Preprint
Hieu Tran, Sy-Tuyen Ho, Marine Carpuat
EMNLP 2026
Hieu Tran, Calvin Bao, Marine Carpuat
NeurIPS 2026
Tai Dang, Hieu Tran, Long-Hung Pham, Sang T. Truong, Edward A Pham, Jeffrey S. Glenn, Thang Luong
EACL, 2026 (Oral)
Hieu Tran*, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le*, Huy Nghiem, Quang-Nhan Nguyen, Wei Ai, Marine Carpuat
EACL, 2023
Long Phan*, Tai Dang*, Hieu Tran*, Trieu H. Trinh*, Vy Phan, Lam D. Chau, Minh-Thang Luong
arXiv preprint:2210:05610, 2022
Chinh Ngo*, Trieu H Trinh*, Long Phan*, Hieu Tran*, Tai Dang, Hieu Nguyen, Minh Nguyen, Minh-Thang Luong
JMLR, 2024
Teven Le Scao, Angela Fan, Christopher Akiki, Ellie Pavlick, and 386 others including Hieu Tran
NAACL SRW, 2022
Long Phan, Hieu Tran, Hieu Nguyen, and Trieu H. Trinh
NLP4Prog @ ACL, 2021
Long Phan, Hieu Tran, Daniel Le, Hieu Nguyen, James Anibal, Alec Peltekian, Yanfang Ye
ICONIP, 2021
Hieu Tran, Long Phan, James Anibal, Binh T. Nguyen, Truong-Son Nguyen
Gave a talk at BKACAD and USAID Wise Online Event
Gave a talk at VietAI
Gave a talk at Google I/O Extended Hanoi 2022
A one-year long research workshop on large multilingual models and datasets mainly leading by HuggingFace
Undergraduate Thesis, HCMC University of Science