Senior Assoc. Prof. Kim Phuc Tran

Dr. habil. Kim Phuc Tran, PhD, Senior Member of IEEE, is a French–Vietnamese senior expert in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), scientific advisor, and venture builder, with over 17 years of experience supporting industrial innovation, research evaluation, and decision-support systems across Europe, Asia, and broader international ecosystems.

He is currently a Senior Associate Professor (HDR) in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at ENSAIT – University of Lille (France) and a senior researcher at the GEMTEX laboratory. Since 2017, he has also served as Senior Scientific Advisor at Dong A University and the International Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (IAD), Vietnam, where he contributes to long-term AI research, innovation, and technology-transfer strategies at the interface between Europe and Southeast Asia.

In 2018, Dr. Tran was elected President of the Permanent External Scientific Advisory Board of Dong A University, positioning him at the highest strategic level of research and innovation governance. In this role, he oversees research quality, international partnerships, and strategic alignment with European and Asian industrial, regulatory, and societal priorities.

Dr. Tran is widely recognized as an independent expert and evaluator for major national and international research and innovation programs in France, Belgium, Canada, Israel, and other advanced research ecosystems. These activities span public research agencies, national funding bodies, doctoral–industrial collaboration schemes, and strategic university initiatives. In this capacity, he is regularly entrusted with the evaluation of complex and high-risk AI projects, assessing whether ambitious scientific and technical visions can realistically translate into deployable, trustworthy, and economically viable technologies under real-world industrial, regulatory, and market constraints.

Through these expert roles, he has developed a rare panoramic understanding of what differentiates investable and scalable AI technologies from purely academic prototypes, across multiple national innovation systems and funding cultures.

In parallel, Dr. Tran has accumulated extensive hands-on industrial experience as a long-term AI expert and strategic advisor for multiple European industrial groups, technology-oriented SMEs, and innovation-driven organizations operating in sectors such as advanced manufacturing, smart textiles, industrial analytics, and software-intensive systems. His contributions have supported the deployment of AI-driven analytics, explainable decision-support systems, quality monitoring solutions, and data-centric industrial platforms in real operational environments.

Alongside his research, evaluation, and industrial advisory activities, Dr. Tran has built a strong and sustained record in doctoral and postdoctoral supervision. To date, he has supervised and co-supervised more than 20 PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers across Europe and Asia, covering topics such as Explainable and Trustworthy AI, federated and edge intelligence, industrial analytics, hybrid (physics–data) modeling, and AI-driven decision-support systems. Among them, 12 researchers have successfully completed their training and have since assumed key academic and strategic industrial positions, including appointments as Associate Professors, Directors of AI and Data Science, and senior technical leaders within large international industrial groups and technology-driven organizations. This track record reflects his ability to mentor researchers not only toward scientific excellence, but also toward leadership roles at the interface of research, industry, and strategic decision-making.

Beyond expert evaluation and industrial advisory, Dr. Tran is the founder and scientific director of the International Chair in Data Science & Explainable AI (XAI Chair) at Dong A University. Conceived as a startup-oriented innovation platform inspired by European Industry 5.0 models and adapted to the fast-growing Asian innovation landscape, the XAI Chair leverages his dense European industrial network and strong Asian academic–industrial connections to generate applied XAI technologies, intellectual property, spin-offs, and cross-regional innovation pipelines connecting Europe and Asia with investors.

 With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, multiple edited volumes with leading international publishers, and leadership roles in multi-million-euro collaborative research and innovation projects, Dr. Tran combines deep technical authority in Explainable and Trustworthy AI with proven experience in expert evaluation, cross-regional industrial collaboration, doctoral mentorship, and venture-oriented innovation.

His core mission is to transform explainable and trustworthy AI into deployable, credible, and investable technologies, aligned with the regulatory, industrial, and human constraints of both European and Asian markets.

Research Interests:

• Human-centered Artificial Intelligence: Human-Centered Edge AI, Embedded AI, Human-Centered Design to Address Biases in AI, Augmented Intelligence,  Explainable Ambient Intelligence, Human-Robot relations and collaborations, Human Impact, Augment Human Capabilities, and Intelligence, Trustworthy and Transparent Artificial Intelligence, Self-Supervised Learning,  Explainable by design Anomaly Detection, Generative AI, Federated Learning, Federated Reinforcement Learning, 1-bit Machine Learning Models, Multimodal Deep Learning, Quantum Machine Learning, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Analog AI

• Safety and Reliability of Artificial Intelligence systems: Adversarial Attack Detection,  Detecting Poisoning Attacks, Cybersecurity for AI Systems, Blockchain Empowered Federated Learning, Consensus Protocol, Hardware Bit-Flipping Attack,  Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Trustworthy AI for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Human-centered AI for Trustworthy Robots and Autonomous Systems, Ethical robotics, autonomous systems and AI, Responsible AI for Long-term Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

• Smart Healthcare Technologies: Digital Twins in Healthcare,  Clinical Decision Support Systems, AI for Health and Wellbeing, Smart Healthcare, Health Care Stroke Prediction

• Intelligent Decision Support Systems: Embedding domain knowledge for Machine Learning, Supply Chain Optimization, Production Optimization, Demand Forecasting,  Cybersecurity for industrial control systems, Fault Detection and Diagnostics, Predictive Maintenance, Natural Language Processing for Fashion Trends Detection

• Applications of AI, Edge Computing, Digital Twins,  and Data Science in Industry 5.0: Digital Transition and AI, Twin Green and Digital Transition, Digital Twin Drives Smart Manufacturing, Digital Twin Application for Production Optimization, Smart Manufacturing, Wearable AI Devices, Workplace Health and Safety, Reliability Engineering, AI-aided Knowledge Discovery,  Sustainable Fashion, Energy-Harvesting-Based IoT Wearables, Evolutionary Computing, Swarm Algorithms,

• Statistical Computing: Statistical Process Monitoring,  Advanced Control Charts, Quality Control, Interpreting out-of-control signals using Machine Learning,  Control Chart Pattern Recognition (CVPR) with Machine Learning, Screening and Early Detection and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases

• Quantum consciousness and its applications: Quantum Mind Theory, Quantum Psychology, Quantifying Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Artificial Intelligence​

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=en&user=uGv7zzQAAAAJ

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kim-Phuc-Tran

Personal webpage: https://www.gemtex.fr/gemtex-members/phuc-tran/