About

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Emory University. Currently, I am working with Dr. Li Xiong.

Recent Updates

Oct 2023: Received a NSF travel award for IEEE TPS 2023.

Sept 2023: Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Aug 2023: Start my PhD at Emory University, Advisor: Dr. Li Xiong

June 2023: PC & reviewer for NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving

June 2023: Finished my M.S program at UTC

Apr 2023: UTC Graduate Schools Outstanding Graduate Student Award for the academic year 2022-23

Publications

Toan V. Tran and Mina Sartipi, “Revisiting Pixel-based Traffic Signal Controls using Reinforcement Learning with World Models”, AI4SG workshop at AAAI’23 PDF

Toan V. Tran, Seyedmehdi Khaleghian, Junxuan Zhao, and Mina Sartipi, “SIMCal: A High-Performance Toolkit For Calibrating Traffic Simulation”, IEEE BigData’22 PDF

Rishav Sen, Toan V. Tran, Seyedmehdi Khaleghian, Mina Sartipi, Himanshu Neema, and Abhishek Dubey, “BTE-Sim: Fast simulation environment for public transportation”, IEEE BigData’22 PDF

Toan V. Tran and Mina Sartipi, “Neuroevolution for transportation applications”, UrbComp workshop at KDD’22 PDF

Toan V. Tran, Thanh-Nam Doan, and Mina Sartipi, “TSLib: A Unified Traffic Signal Control Framework Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Benchmarking”, IEEE BigData’21 PDF

Awards

Oct 2023: NSF travel award @ IEEE TPS

Apr 2023: UTC Graduate Schools Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Oct 2022: NSF travel award @ CIKM

Dec 2021: NSF travel award @ IEEE BigData

Services

PC & Reviewers for Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving @ NeurIPS 2022, 2023

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing