Before joining the University of Malta, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dr Tran had a career in the Department of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong city, Vietnam as an Assistant Professor in Marine Technology. Dr Tran had conducted and completed his Postdoc research fellow at Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul city, South Korea into Ocean & Shore Technology (OST) team.
He read for his undergraduate degree at Vietnam Maritime University, Vietnam as well as M.Sc. degree. He had gotten his Ph.D. degree at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan city, P.R. China.
Research is, of course, a large part of Dr Tran' work but he also has time for a regular teaching load and is supervisor to several Intership, Master's, Ph.D's and post doctoral students.